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Events

363 - Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which will bring about his own death.
1046 - Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1496 - England King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to explore unknown lands.
1689 - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department.
1766 - Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spain governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1770 - Boston Massacre: Five United States, including a black man named Crispus Attucks, and a boy are killed by United Kingdom troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the United States Revolutionary War five years later.
1784 - Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade.
1793 - France troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège (city) is recaptured.
1821 - James Monroe is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
1824 - First Burmese War: The United Kingdom officially declare war on Myanmar.
1836 - Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber).
1842 - Over 500 Mexico troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio, Texas and then head back to the Rio Grande.
1848 - Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named France minister of Finance.
1850 - The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1860 - Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join Kingdom of Sardinia.
1861 - The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the Flags of the Confederate States of America.
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 (rail).
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 - Italy forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkey lines.
1915 - World War I: LZ 33, a list of Zeppelins, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
1916 - Spain Football (soccer) club Real Club Deportivo Mallorca is 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.
1931 - Daniel Salamanca Urey is named President of Bolivia.
1933 - Great Depression: President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt declares a "United States bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933 - In Germany, the Nazism win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
1936 - First flight of the Supermarine Supermarine Spitfire Fighter aircraft.
1940 - Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Poland intelligentsia, including 14,700 Poland POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.
1943 - First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1945 - World War II: "Ruhr Pocket" begins.
1946 - Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1946 - Hungary communism and Social Democracy co-found the Left Bloc (Hungary).
1949 - The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
1955 - Elvis Presley appears on television for the first time.
1958 - Guangxi Autonomous Region is established.
1958 - Explorer 2 spacecraft launches, fails to reach Earth orbit.
1960 - Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase.
1964 - Ceylon declares emergency crisis due to unrest.
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.
1966 - Bob Seagren vaults 5.19m, an indoor world record.
1968 - United States launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops Island to study the Sun.
1970 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1970 - Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively.
1973 - Donald DeFreeze, future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.
1974 - Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1976 - British Pound sterling falls below $2 United States for the first time.
1978 - Landsat program is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California.
1979 - Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1979 - Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
1980 - Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49.
1982 - Venera 14, a Soviet Union satellite arrives at the planet Venus (planet).
1983 - Bob Hawke becomes Prime Minister of Australia after defeating Malcolm Fraser in Australian elections.
1988 - Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
1991 - Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners.
1994 - A gunman takes 8 people hostage in the Salt Lake City Public Library Hostage Incident.
1998 - NASA announces that the Clementine mission probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony.
1999 - Paul Okalik is elected first List of Nunavut premiers.
2001 - In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
2001 - In Santee, California, a school massacre occurs at Santana High School, leaving 2 dead and 15 wounded.
2003 - Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks provokes controversy in the U.S. by stating that the band was "ashamed the George W. Bush is from Texas."
2003 - In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
2004 - The Ottawa Senators and Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL set a record for most penalty minutes in one game with 419.
2005 - The Burkina Faso Party for Democracy and Socialism holds its 1st National Convention
2006 - Three 6 Mafia become the first African-American hip-hop group to win an Academy Award for Best Song and the first hip-hop artists to ever perform at the ceremony.

Births

1133 - Monarch Henry II of England (d. 1189)
1324 - Monarch 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)
1585 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)
1658 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)
1693 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
1696 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
1703 (N.S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
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)
1794 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872)
1794 - Robert Cooper Grier, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1870)
1814 - Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. 1889)
1815 - John Wentworth (mayor), American politician (d. 1888)
1817 - Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist (d. 1894)
1836 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
1853 - Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)
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, Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)
1873 - Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961)
1874 - Henry Travers, British actor (d. 1965)
1879 - Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
1883 - Marius Barbeau, French Canadian ethnographer and folklorist (b. 1969)
1886 - Dong Biwu, High-ranking member of the Communist Party of China (d. 1975)
1887 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
1897 - Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (d. 1960)
1898 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
1898 - Soong May-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-Shek (d. 2003)
1904 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
1908 - Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (d. 1990)
1908 - Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)
1910 - Józef Marcinkiewicz, Polish mathematician (d. 1940)
1914 - Philip Farkas, American horn player and teacher (d. 1992)
1915 - Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)
1918 - Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager
1918 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and ice hockey referee (d. 2006)
1918 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics (d. 2002)
1920 - José Aboulker, Algerian anti-Nazi resistance fighter
1920 - Virginia Christine, American actress (d. 1996)
1921 - Elmer Valo, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1922 - James Noble (actor), American actor
1922 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer and film director (d. 1975)
1923 - Laurence Tisch, American investor
1927 - Jack Cassidy, American actor (d. 1976)
1930 - Del Crandall, American baseball player
1931 - Fred (comics), French comics artist
1931 - Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn virtuoso
1934 - Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist, Nobel Prize in Economics
1934 - James B. Sikking, American actor
1936 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
1936 - Dean Stockwell, American actor
1937 - Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ, President of Nigeria
1938 - Paul Evans (musician), American singer and songwriter
1938 - Fred Williamson, American football player and actor
1939 - Samantha Eggar, English actress
1939 - Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer
1939 - Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef
1940 - Malcolm Hebden, English actor
1942 - Felipe González, Prime Minister of Spain
1942 - Mike Resnick, American science fiction author
1943 - Billy Backus, American boxer
1944 - Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (d. 1998)
1944 - Roy Gutman, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
1947 - Eddie Hodges, American actor and singer
1947 - Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer
1947 - Kent Tekulve, American baseball player
1948 - Eddy Grant, Guyana-born singer
1948 - Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
1948 - Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
1949 - Franz Josef Jung, Commander-in-chief of the German Bundeswehr
1952 - Alan Clark (keyboardist), English keyboardist (Dire Straits)
1954 - Marsha Warfield, American actress, comedienne
1955 - Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian
1956 - Teena Marie, American singer
1957 - Mark E. Smith, English singer (The Fall (band))
1958 - Andy Gibb, English-born Australian singer and teen idol (d. 1988)
1959 - Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian politician (d. 1999)
1959 - David Fury, American television writer and producer
1960 - David Tibet, English musician (Current 93)
1962 - Jonathan Penner, American reality show contestant
1962 - Charlie and Craig Reid, Scottish musicians (The Proclaimers)
1966 - Michael Irvin, American football player
1969 - MC Solaar, French rapper
1970 - John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1970 - Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress
1971 - Jeffrey Hammonds, American baseball player
1971 - Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang (band))
1971 - Yuri Lowenthal, American actor/author
1972 - Luca Turilli, Italian musician (Rhapsody of Fire)
1973 - Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer
1973 - Ryan Franklin, American baseball player
1974 - Kevin Connolly, American television actor and comedian
1974 - Jens Jeremies, German footballer
1974 - Matt Lucas, English comedian
1974 - Eva Mendes, American actress
1975 - Jolene Blalock, American actress
1975 - Sasho Petrovski, Australian soccer player
1975 - Niki Taylor, American model
1975 - Luciano Burti, Brazilian racing driver
1976 - Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
1976 - Paul Konerko, American baseball player
1977 - Bryan Berard, American ice hockey player
1977 - Mike MacDougal, American baseball player
1977 - Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player
1981 - Paul Martin (ice hockey), American ice hockey player
1982 - Daniel Carter (rugby player), New Zealand Rugby player
1982 - Giorgia Palmas, Italian television personality and model
1985 - Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
1986 - Matty Fryatt, English footballer
1988 - Trevor Carson, Northern Irish footballer
1988 - Bjarni Viðarsson, Icelandic footballer
1989 - Jake Lloyd, American actor

Deaths

1534 - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)
1539 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487)
1592 - Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
1611 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
1622 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
1695 - Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
1726 - Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
1778 - Thomas Arne, English composer (b. 1710)
1815 - Franz Mesmer, Austrian developer of hypnotism (b. 1734)
1827 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)
1827 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (b. 1745)
1829 - John Adams (mutineer), last surviving HMS Bounty mutineer (b. 1766)
1849 - David Scott (painter), Scottish painter (b. 1806)
1876 - Marie d'Agoult, German-born writer (b. 1805)
1893 - Hippolyte Taine, French historian (b. 1828
1895 - Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b. 1831)
1895 - Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, British soldier and scholar (b. 1810)
1903 - George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)
1907 - Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (b. 1843)
1925 - Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician (b. 1859)
1926 - Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (b. 1841)
1927 - Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840)
1931 - Fr. Arthur Tooth Society of the Holy Cross, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for Ritualism activities (b. 1839)
1940 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
1944 - Max Jacob, French poet and writer (b. 1876)
1945 - Lena Baker, American murderer (b. 1901)
1947 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)
1953 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russia composer, (b. 1891)
1953 - Joseph Stalin, Georgia (country) leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1879)
1953 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
1955 - Antanas Merkys, President of Lithuania (b. 1888)
1963 - Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
1963 - Cowboy Copas, American singer (b. 1913)
1963 - Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer (b. 1921)
1965 - Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)
1965 - Pepper Martin, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1966 - Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
1967 - Georges Vanier, Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
1974 - Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. 1907)
1974 - Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario (b. 1888)
1977 - Tom Pryce, Welsh Formula One driver (b. 1949)
1977 - Jansen Van Vuuren, Dutch volunteer safety marshall at the 1977 South African Grand Prix
1980 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)
1980 - Winifred Wagner, German opera producer (b. 1897)
1981 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1982 - John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
1984 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (b. 1915)
1984 - William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)
1988 - Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian (b. 1933)
1990 - Gary Merrill, American film actor (b. 1915)
1993 - Cyril Collard, French author and filmmaker (b. 1957)
1995 - Vivian Stanshall, English musician (Bonzo Dog Band) (b. 1943)
1995 - Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer (b. 1952)
1996 - Whit Bissell, American actor (b. 1909)
1997 - Samm Sinclair Baker, American diet author (b. 1909)
1999 - Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
2000 - Lolo Ferrari, French actress (b. 1962)
2004 - Walt Gorney, American actor (b. 1912)
2006 - Richard Kuklinski, American Mafia hit man (b. 1935)

Holidays and observances

Lei Feng in China.
Approximate beginning of month of jīngzhé in Chinese calendar.

Liturgical feasts

St Piran's Day - Cornwall's national day.
Saint Adrian (died 308)
Feast of St. Ciarán Saighir, patron of the Diocese of Ossory, in Irish calendar.
Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea (d. 195)
Saint Gerarda
Saint Olivia (d. 308)
March 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

March 5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
March 5 is the 64th day of the year (65th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 301 days remaining until the end of the year.

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