This Day in History: February 5

1972: Bob Douglas is the first black person elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
1971: Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell land on the moon as part of the Apollo 14 mission.
1968: Beginning of the Battle of Khe Sanh.
1919: United Artists founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith.
1917: Congress bans the majority of Asian immigration to the U.S.
1900: Treaty for the Panama Canal signed by the U.S. and the U.K.
1778: South Carolina ratifies the Articles of Confederation, the first state to do so.