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Thursday, 05 February 2026
1995 France sets off an underground nuclear device in the South Pacific, ending a three-year moratorium on such tests. 
1995 Francis Showering, brewer, dies at 83
1996 Leonard Katzman, TV producer, dies at 69.
1997 Digital Theater Sound (DTS) announces its intentions to enter the DVD market
1997 Humanitarian Mother Teresa dies of a heart attack in Calcutta, India, at age 87
1997 Georg Solti, conductor, dead, dies at 84
1999 Candid Camera star Allen Funt dies in Pebble Beach, CA, at age 84.
2005 John G. Roberts nominated by President George W. Bush, for Chief Justice of the United States
2005 Mandala Airlines Flight 091 737 crashes in Indonesia killing at least 117. (See airplane accidents in 205)
2011 India and Bangladesh sign a pact to end their 40-year border demarcation dispute
2012 54 people are killed and 50 injured after a firecracker factory explodes in Nadu.
2014 World Health Organisation estimate that 21000 people have now died from Ebola virus out of 4000 infected
2017 Hurricane Irma is recorded as becoming the post powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history with winds of 185mph
2017 Barry Callebaut announce a 4th type of chocolate, "Ruby", made from the Ruby cocoa bean
2017 Togo's government shuts down the internet for a week to quell government opposition
2018 Anonymous senior White house official opinion piece "I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration" published by the New York Times
2018 UK Prime Minister Theresa May confirms in parliament two Russian military intelligence officers undertook novichok nerve agent attack, prompts international condemnation.
2021 2021 Guinean coup d'état: Guinea's President Alpha Condé is detained by an elite military unit led by a former French legionnaire, Lt. Col. Mamady Doumbouya, claiming to have seized power.[190]
