Nicosia, Cyprus. The following are some of the major events to have occurred on February 5, from 1979 to 2007.
1979
Mehdi Bazargan, an opposition leader during the reign of the Shah, was appointed the first prime minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He resigned later in the year.
1987
Former Nazi officer Klaus Barbie was imprisoned in Lyon, France after being extradited from Bolivia in 1983.
1989
Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson, described as a reputed girlfriend of Prince Andrew, toured HMS Brazen.
1993
Lord King stepped down as chairman of British Airways.
1994
A mortar bomb hit a street market in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, besieged by Serbs during the Bosnian war, killing 68 people.
1999
South African President Nelson Mandela made his last State of the Nation speech to parliament before retiring.
2004
Armed rebels took control of the Haitian city Gonaives.
2005
Togo’s President Gnassingbe Eyadema, described as Africa’s longest serving ruler, died after 38 years in power, aged 69. The army named his son Faure Gnassingbe as his successor.
2007
Lisa Nowak, a U.S. astronaut accused of trying to kidnap and murder a woman she considered a rival, was arrested and released on bail.
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