Reuters historical calendar -February 5

London, Feb 4 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on February 5 in history: 1941 - Andrew Barton ''Banjo'' Paterson, the Australian poet widely credited as the author of the words to ''Waltzing Matilda'', died.

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.

1983 - Klaus Barbie, sought as a Nazi war criminal, was imprisoned in Lyon, France, after being extradited from Bolivia.

1985 - Spain reopened its border with the British crown colony of Gibraltar, ending a 16-year siege imposed by General Franco.

1994 - A mortar bomb hit a street market in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, besieged by Serbs during the Bosnian war, killing 68 people.

1997 - Switzerland's three biggest banks said they had created a 100 million Swiss franc ( million) Holocaust memorial fund as a gesture of goodwill towards critics who accused them of benefiting from the Nazi persecution of Europe's Jews.

1999 - South African President Nelson Mandela made his last State of the Nation speech to parliament before retiring.

1999 - Neville Bonner, the first Aboriginal to sit in Australia's parliament, died.

2002 - European and American doctors unveiled a new professional code of conduct, an update of the nearly 2,500-year-old Hippocratic oath.

2003 - Manfred von Brauchitsch, the Mercedes driver who gave the 1930s 'Silver Arrows' team their first grand prix win, at the Nuerburgring, died aged 97.

2005 - Togo's President Gnassingbe Eyadema, Africa's longest serving ruler, died after 38 years in power, aged 69. The army named his son Faure Gnassingbe as his successor.

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