This article is about the day. For the 1994 novel, see The Fifth of March .
March 5 in recent years
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2008 (Wednesday)
2007 (Monday)
2006 (Sunday)
2005 (Saturday)
2004 (Friday)
2003 (Wednesday)
2002 (Tuesday)
2001 (Monday)
2000 (Sunday)
March 5 is the 65th day of the year (66th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 300 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events [ ]
363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire , in a campaign which would 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.
1824 - First Burmese War : The British officially declare war on Burma .
1836 - Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver , the .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 the 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 .
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 the 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 : The LZ 33 , a zeppelin , is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend .
1933 - Great Depression : President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday ", closing all U.S. 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 : The "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 .
1958 - The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.
1958 - Explorer 2 spacecraft launches and fails to reach Earth orbit.
1960 - The 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.
1965 - March Intifada : A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1966 - BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji , Japan , killing 124.
1970 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1970 - Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively.
1973 - Donald DeFreeze , the 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 - The British pound falls below $2 USD for the first time.
1978 - The 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.
1982 - Venera 14 , a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus .
1988 - Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
1991 - Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners.
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 .
2003 - In Haifa , 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre .
2005 - The Burkinabé Party for Democracy and Socialism holds its first National Convention.
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 )
1723 - Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773 )
1739 - Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge , doctor, Massachusetts militia officer, member of the Massachusetts legislature (d. 1819 )
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 )
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 , Jewish Communist
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 )
1929 - Erik Carlsson , Swedish rally driver
1930 - Del Crandall , American baseball player
1931 - Fred Othon Aristidès , French comics artist
1931 - Barry Tuckwell , Australian horn virtuoso
1933 - Tommy Tucker , American blues singer and pianist (d. 1982 )
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
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
1946 - Murray Head , British actor and singer
1946 - Richard Bell , Canadian musician (The Band )
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 - Richard Hickox , English musical conductor
1948 - Elaine Paige , English singer and actress
1948 - Paquirri , Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984 )
1949 - Franz Josef Jung , Commander-in-chief of the German Bundeswehr
1951 - Giorgos Ninios , Greek actor
1952 - Alan Clark , English keyboardist (Dire Straits )
1954 - Marsha Warfield , American actress, comedienne
1955 - Penn Jillette , American magician and comedian
1956 - Adriana Barraza , Mexican actress
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
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
1966 - Bob Halkidis , Canadian hockey player
1966 - Aasif Mandvi , Indian-born American actor and comedian
1969 - Paul Blackthorne , British actor
1969 - Moussa Saïb , former Algerian footballer
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/painter
1971 - Filip Meirhaeghe , Belgian mountainbiker
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
1976 - Katerina Matziou , Greek actress
1976 - Tim Sylvia , American mixed martial artist
1977 - Bryan Berard , American ice hockey player
1977 - Mike MacDougal , American baseball player
1977 - Wally Szczerbiak , American basketball player
1978 - Mike Hessman , American baseball player
1978 - Kimberly McCullough , American actress
1978 - Papoose , American rapper
1979 - Tang Gonghong , Chinese weightlifter
1981 - Andreas Wiig , Norwegian snowboarder
1981 - Paul Martin , American ice hockey player
1981 - Shugo Oshinari , Japanese actor
1982 - Daniel Carter , New Zealand Rugby player
1982 - Giorgia Palmas , Italian television personality and model
1985 - Ken'ichi Matsuyama , Japanese actor
1985 - Whitney Port , Cast member of The Hills TV series
1986 - Matty Fryatt , English footballer
1987 - Anna Chakvetadze , Russian tennis player
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
1770 - Crispus Attucks a free black American
1776 - Yeongjo of Joseon , ruler of Korea (b. 1694 )
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 )
1929 - David Dunbar Buick , Scottish-born American automobile pioneer (b. 1854 )
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. 1878 )
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 )
1973 - Michael Jeffery , British music manager (b. 1933 )
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 pornographic actress (b. 1962 )
2004 - Walt Gorney , American actor (b. 1912 )
2006 - Richard Kuklinski , American Mafia hit man (b. 1935 )
2008 - Joseph Weizenbaum , German-American professor of computer science (b.1923 )
Holidays and observances [ ]
Learn from Lei Feng Day in China .
Approximate beginning of month of jīngzhé in Chinese calendar .
St Piran's Day - Cornwall 's national day.
Feast of St. Ciarán Saighir , patron of the Diocese of Ossory , in Irish calendar .
Saint Theophile (d. 195)
Saint Olivia (d. 308)
March 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
External links [ ]
141 Familypedia people were born on March 5
160 Familypedia people died on March 5
96 Familypedia people were first married on March 5