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''This article is about the day. For the 1993 novel, see The Fifth of March

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Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

Liturgical feasts

External links

Events

★ 363 - Roman Emperor Julian 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 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 Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.

★ 1770 - Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including a black man named Crispus Attucks, and a boy are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of 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 Liège is recaptured.

★ 1821 - James Monroe is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.

★ 1824 - First Burmese War: The British officially declare 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 is named French 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 flag 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.

★ 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 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 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 the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft.

★ 1940 - Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.

★ 1943 - First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.

★ 1945 - World War II: "Battle of the Ruhr" begins.

★ 1946 - Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.

★ 1946 - Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.

★ 1949 - The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.

★ 1955 - Elvis Presley appears on television for the first time.

★ 1958 - Guangxi Zhuang 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 - U.S. 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 falls below $2 U.S. for the first time.

★ 1978 - Landsat 3 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 satellite arrives at the planet Venus.

★ 1983 - Bob Hawke becomes Australian prime minister 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 probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony.

★ 1999 - Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.

★ 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 president of the United States 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 Burkinabé 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 - 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)

★ 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, 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 laureate (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, 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 Othon Aristidès, French comics artist

★ 1931 - Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn virtuoso

★ 1934 - Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist, Nobel laureate

★ 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, 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

★ 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, 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)

★ 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

★ 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 (Bloodhound Gang)

★ 1971 - Yuri Lowenthal, American actor/author

★ 1972 - Luca Turilli, Italian musician (Rhapsody)

★ 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, American ice hockey player

★ 1982 - Daniel Carter, New Zealand Rugby player

★ 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, last surviving HMS Bounty mutineer (b. 1766)

★ 1849 - David Scott, 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 - Henry Rawlinson, 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 SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist 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, Russian composer, (b. 1891)

★ 1953 - Joseph Stalin, Georgian 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

★ Learn from Lei Feng Day 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.

★ Saint Theophile (d. 195)

★ Saint Gerarda

★ Saint Olivia (d. 308)

★ March 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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