On This Day: February 5th

United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.

Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193 overshoots the runway at Sabiha Gökçen International Airport and crashes, killing three people and injuring 179.

Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi.

New Zealand politician Steven Joyce is hit by a flung rubber dildo in a Waitangi Day protest.

Cybercriminals initiate the Bangladesh Bank robbery, using the SWIFT network to fraudulently transfer $101 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York account of Bangladesh Bank.

A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.

Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.

Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.

The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.

Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.