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Send This Page To A Friend \| Home What happened today in history? Uncle Woody's Almanac for February 5
1999	Former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson is sentenced to a year in a Maryland jail for assaulting two motorists after a traffic accident.
1996	Actress Elizabeth Taylor files for divorce from construction worker Larry Fortensky (her seventh husband).
1995	Actor Doug McClure dies of lung cancer in Glendale, California, at age 59.
1994	Byron De La Beckwith is convicted in Jackson, Mississippi, of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963, and is sentenced to life in prison.
1988	Arizona Governor Evan Mecham is impeached by the state House of Representatives, leading to his trial and conviction in the state Senate.
1962	French President Charles De Gaulle voices his support for Algeria's independence.
1958	Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
1937	US president Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court.
1917	Mexico adopts it's constitution. The country now celebrates Constitution Day on February 5th to commemorate the event.
1881	Phoenix, AZ, is incorporated as a city.
1783	Sweden recognizes the United States as an independent country.
1631	Roger Williams, who would later settle Rhode Island, arrives in Boston from England.