Template:On this day/February 5
- 1976 – Following the previous days vote over the "Rebels" school mascot, a riot erupted at Escambia High School during which four students are shot and twenty-six students are injured by rocks and debris.
- 2005 – Escambia County Sheriff's Deputy James Sullivan allegedly stomped on the head of subdued ex-convict Timothy T. Tabor, who had been handcuffed by deputies and was lying face down at the time on a concrete floor.