On this day …
February 5, 2015
- In 1631, Roger Williams emigrated to Boston.
- In 1919, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith founded United Artists.
- In 1945, General Douglas MacArthur returned, as promised, to Manila.
- In 1958, a hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was lost by the U.S. Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Ga., never to be recovered.
- In 1971, astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell landed on the moon on the Apollo 14 mission.
- In 1972, Bob Douglas became the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
- In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
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