February 5 ....

In 1881 Phoenix was incorporated. In 1914 writer William Burroughs was born in St Louis, MO. In 1917 Mexico's constitution was adopted. In 1922 Reader's Digest magazine was first published. In 1934 Baseball Hall of Famer and real all-time home-run champ Hank Aaron was born in Mobile, AL. In 1937 President Franklin Roosevelt attempted to "pack" the Supreme Court by increasing the number of justices. In 1952 the first "Don't Walk" sign was installed in New York City. In 1967 the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour premiered on CBS. In 1971 the Apollo 14 Lunar Module Antares, the third US manned Moon expedition, landed on the Moon with Alan B. Shepard, Jr., commander; Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot; and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot. Shepard and Mitchell walked on the Moon for four hours. In 1990 Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev proposed the Communist Party give up its monopoly on power in the Soviet Union. Two days later, the party's Central Committee agreed. In 2001 four disciples of Osama bin Laden went on trial in New York for the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa. (The four were convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole.) In 2003 US Secretary of State Colin Powell presented evidence to the UN concerning Iraq's material breach of UN Resolution 1441.