| 14071 | February 5 | Event | 1941 – World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea. |
| 14072 | February 5 | Event | 1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila. |
| 14073 | February 5 | Event | 1946 – The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea. |
| 14074 | February 5 | Event | 1958 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic. |
| 14075 | February 5 | Event | 1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. |
| 14076 | February 5 | Event | 1962 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence. |
| 14077 | February 5 | Event | 1963 – The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union |
| 14078 | February 5 | Event | 1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission. |
| 14079 | February 5 | Event | 1972 – Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. |
| 14080 | February 5 | Event | 1975 – Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship. |
| 14081 | February 5 | Event | 1976 – The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ. |
| 14082 | February 5 | Event | 1985 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years. |
| 14083 | February 5 | Event | 1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges. |
| 14084 | February 5 | Event | 1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. |
| 14085 | February 5 | Event | 1994 – Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo. |
| 14086 | February 5 | Event | 1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families. |
| 14087 | February 5 | Event | 2000 – Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya. |
| 14088 | February 5 | Event | 2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion. |
| 14089 | February 5 | Event | 2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57. |
| 14090 | February 5 | Birth | 1505 – Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian and author (d. 1572) |
| 14091 | February 5 | Birth | 1519 – René of Châlon, (d. 1544) |
| 14092 | February 5 | Birth | 1534 – Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian soldier, composer, and critic (d. 1612) |
| 14093 | February 5 | Birth | 1589 – Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet and educator (d. 1669) |
| 14094 | February 5 | Birth | 1594 – Biagio Marini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1663) |
| 14095 | February 5 | Birth | 1608 – Gaspar Schott, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1666) |
| 14096 | February 5 | Birth | 1626 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author (d. 1696) |
| 14097 | February 5 | Birth | 1650 – Anne Jules de Noailles, French general (d. 1708) |
| 14098 | February 5 | Birth | 1703 – Gilbert Tennent, Irish minister (d. 1764) |
| 14099 | February 5 | Birth | 1723 – John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic (d. 1794) |
| 14100 | February 5 | Birth | 1725 – James Otis, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1783) |