March 5
March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years ). There are 301 days remaining.
Events
1046 - Naser Khosrow begins his "itinerary" which he would later describe in Safarnameh .
1689 - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department .
1766 - Antonio de Ulloa , the first Spanish governor of Louisiana , arrives in New Orleans .
1770 - Boston Massacre : Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks , are killed by British troops in an event that would help start the American Revolutionary War five years later.
1784 - Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade .
1793 - French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liege is recaptured.
1821 - James Monroe is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States .
1824 - First Burmese War : The British officially declares war on Burma .
1836 - Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber).
1842 - Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas , briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande .
1848 - Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages named French minister of Finance.
1849 - Zachary Taylor is inaugurated as the 12th President of the United States .
1860 - Parma , Tuscany , Modena and Romagna vote in referenda to join Kingdom of Sardinia .
1861 - Montgomery Blair is named 23rd Postmaster General of the United States by Abraham Lincoln
1867 - Little River County, Arkansas is organized in the United States .
1868 - A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson .
1868 - Mefistofele , an opera by Arrigo Boito premieres at La Scala .
1872 - George Westinghouse patents the air brake .
1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes is publicly inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (he was privately inaugurated on March 3 ).
1894 - Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury .
1904 - Nikola Tesla , in Electrical World and Engineer , describes the process of ball lightning formation.
1905 - Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden , Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.
1907 - The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
1912 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1915 - World War I : LZ 33 , a zeppelin , is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
1916 - Spanish football club Real Club Deportivo Mallorca founded.
1917 - Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States .
1918 - Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow .
1924 - Shefqet Verlaci becomes Prime Minister of Albania .
1929 - LanChile airline begins operations.
1931 - Daniel Salamanca Urey named President of Bolivia .
1933 - Great Depression : President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday ", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933 - In Germany , the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
1936 - First flight of fighter airplane Spitfire Type 300.
1940 - Members of Soviet politbiuro sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POW, known also as Katyn massacre .
1943 - First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in Britain.
1946 - Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain " in his speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri .
1955 - President of Lithuania , Antanas Merkys dies, after having been imprisoned and deported to the Soviet Union .
1956 - Ernie Terrell becomes the WBA world heavyweight champion, beating Eddie Machen .
1958 - Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.
1958 - Explorer 2 spacecraft launched.
1960 - Elvis Presley is discharged from the United States Army .
1963 - Country Singer Patsy Cline dies in a plane crash.
1966 - A BOAC Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mount Fuji , Japan killing 124
1966 - In Luxembourg , Udo Jürgens wins the eleventh Eurovision Song Contest for Austria .
1970 - A nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1970 - Dubnium atoms first detected conclusively.
1971 - First live performance of Led Zeppelin 's "Stairway to Heaven ."
1973 - Donald DeFreeze , future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison .
1974 - Yom Kippur War : Israeli forces withdrew from the west bank of the Suez Canal .
1978 - Landsat 3 is launched.
1979 - Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud , leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters .
1981 - Cannibal Alferd Packer pardoned posthumously.
1982 - SNL star John Belushi dies of a drug overdose in his hotel room.
1982 - Venera 14 , a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus .
1985 - Body of undercover DEA agent Enrique Camarena found.
1988 - Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands restored and revised.
1991 - Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners
1993 - Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is banned from international competition for life after testing positive for banned substances for the second time.
1998 - NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony.
1998 - NASA announces the choice of United States Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins as the first woman commander of a space shuttle mission.
1999 - Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut .
2001 - 35 Muslim pilgrims crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage
2002 - MTV begins airing The Osbournes 2003 - University of Manchester and UMIST announce agreement to merge operations.
2003 - Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks provokes controversy in the U.S. by stating that the band was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas ."
2003 - Nature withdraws several papers as a result of the Jan Hendrik Schön scandal .
2004 - A three-headed frog is found in Weston-super-Mare , England .
Births
1133 - King Henry II of England (d. 1189 )
1324 - King David II of Scotland (d. 1371 )
1512 - Gerardus Mercator , Flemish cartographer (d. 1594 )
1563 - John Coke , English politician (d. 1644 )
1575 - William Oughtred , English mathematician (d. 1660 )
1658 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac , French explorer (d. 1730 )
1693 - Johann Jakob Wettstein , German theologian (d. 1754 )
1696 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , Italian painter (d. 1770 )
1748 - Jonas C. Dryander , Swedish botanist (d. 1810 )
1748 - William Shield , English musician (d. 1829 )
1750 - Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison , French classical scholar (d. 1805 )
1814 - Wilhelm von Giesebrecht , German historian (d. 1889 )
1815 - John Wentworth , U.S. politician (d. 1888 )
1817 - Austen Henry Layard , English excavator of Nineveh (d. 1894 )
1836 - Charles Goodnight , American cattle rancher (d. 1929 )
1867 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau , Premier of Quebec (d. 1952 )
1869 - Michael von Faulhaber , German cardinal and archbishop (d. 1952 )
1870 - Frank Norris , American writer (d. 1902 )
1871 - Rosa Luxemburg , German revolutionary (d. 1919 )
1874 - Henry Travers , British actor (d. 1965 )
1879 - William Beveridge , British economist (d. 1963 )
1886 - Dong Biwu , founder of the Communist Party of China (d. 1975 )
1887 - Heitor Villa-Lobos , Brazilian composer (d. 1959 )
1897 - Madame Chiang Kai-Shek , Chinese political figure (d. 2003 )
1898 - Zhou Enlai , Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976 )
1904 - Karl Rahner , German theologian (d. 1984 )
1905 - Günther Lüders , actor and film director (d. 1975 )
1908 - Rex Harrison , English actor (d. 1990 )
1910 - Józef Marcinkiewicz , Polish mathematician (d. 1940 )
1915 - Laurent Schwartz , French mathematician (d. 2002 )
1918 - James Tobin , American economist (d. 2002 )
1920 - Virginia Christine , American actress (d. 1996 )
1921 - Elmer Valo , Major League Baseball player (d. 1998 )
1922 - Pier Paolo Pasolini , Italian writer and film director (d. 1975 )
1922 - James Noble , American actor
1923 - Laurence Tisch , American investor
1926 - Joan Shawlee , American actress (d. 1987 )
1927 - Jack Cassidy , American actor (d. 1976 )
1927 - Craig Hill , American actor
1934 - James B. Sikking , American actor
1936 - Dean Stockwell , American actor
1936 - Canaan Banana , President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003 )
1937 - Olusegun Obasanjo , leader of Nigeria
1938 - Fred Williamson , American football player and actor
1939 - Pierre Wynants , Belgian chef
1939 - Samantha Eggar , British actress
1942 - Felipe González Márquez , Prime Minister of Spain
1943 - Billy Backus , boxer
1947 - Clodagh Rodgers , Northern Irish singer
1948 - Eddy Grant , singer
1951 - Elaine Paige , English singer, actress
1954 - Marsha Warfield , American actress, comedienne
1955 - Penn Jillette , American magician and comedian
1958 - Andy Gibb , English singer (d. 1988 )
1959 - Vazgen Sargsyan , Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 1999 )
1962 - Charlie and Craig Reed , Scottish singers (The Proclaimers )
1966 - Michael Irvin , American football player
1970 - John Frusciante , American musician (The Red Hot Chili Peppers )
1974 - Jens Jeremies , German football player
1974 - Kevin Connolly , American actor
1974 - Eva Mendes , American actress
1975 - Jolene Blalock , American actress
1975 - Niki Taylor , American fashion model
1976 - Sarunas Jasikevicius , Lithuanian basketball player
1977 - Wally Szczerbiak , NBA basketball player
1981 - Frances Ashton , supermodel
1989 - Jake Lloyd , American actor
Deaths
1534 - Antonio da Correggio , Italian painter (b. 1489 )
1605 - Pope Clement VIII (b. 1536 )
1611 - Shimazu Yoshihisa , Japanese daimyo and samurai (b. 1533 )
1622 - Ranuccio Farnese I , Duke of Parma (b. 1569 )
1726 - Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull
1790 - Flora Macdonald , Jacobite heroine
1815 - Franz Mesmer , developer of hypnotism
1827 - Alessandro Volta , physicist
1827 - Pierre-Simon Laplace , French mathematician (b. 1659 )
1829 - John Adams , last surviving Bounty mutineer
1849 - David Scott , painter
1876 - Marie d'Agoult , writer
1893 - Hippolyte Taine , French historian
1895 - Henry Rawlinson , soldier
1903 - George Francis Robert Henderson , soldier
1907 - Friedrich Blass , scholar
1926 - Clément Ader , French aviation pioneer (b. 1841 )
1927 - Franz Mertens , mathematician
1940 - Cai Yuanpei , educator
1944 - Max Jacob , French poet and writer (b. 1876 )
1953 - Sergei Prokofiev , Russian composer, (b. 1891 )
1953 - Joseph Stalin , leader of the Soviet Union , (b. 1879 )
1953 - Herman J. Mankiewicz , screenwriter
1963 - Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas , country music singers
1965 - Chen Cheng , Chinese politician
1965 - Pepper Martin , baseball player
1966 - Anna Akhmatova , poet
1967 - Georges Vanier , Governor General of Canada
1974 - Sol Hurok , impresario
1974 - Billy De Wolfe , American actor, comedian
1980 - Jay Silverheels , actor
1980 - Winifred Wagner , Bayreuth Festival organizer
1981 - Yip Harburg , lyricist
1982 - John Belushi , actor, (b. 1949 )
1984 - Tito Gobbi , Italian baritone (b. 1915 )
1984 - William Powell , actor, (b. 1892 )
1988 - Alberto Olmedo , comedian
1996 - Whit Bissell , American actor
1997 - Samm Sinclair Baker , coauthor of the Scarsdale Diet 1999 - Richard Kiley , actor
2003 - Hellmuth Buddenberg , entrepreneur
Holidays and observances
External links
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