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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
– King
Henry VII of England
issues letters patent to
John Cabot
and his sons, authorising 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
.
1824
–
First Burmese War
: The
British
officially declare war on
Burma
.
1836
–
Samuel Colt
makes the first production-model
revolver
, the .34-caliber.
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
.
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
receives its première performance 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.
1912
–
Italian
forces are the first to use
airships
for military purposes, using them for
reconnaissance
behind
Turkish
lines.
1933
–
Great Depression
: President
Franklin D.
Roosevelt
declares a "
bank holiday
", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1940
– Members of
Soviet
politburo
sign an order for the execution of 25,700
Polish
intelligentsia
, including 14,700 Polish
POW
, known also as the
Katyn massacre
.
1942
– United States Navy Seabees established.
1943
– First flight of
Gloster Meteor
jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
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
.
1953
– Soviet dictator
Joseph Stalin
died at age 73.
1958
– The
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.
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.
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
.
1975
– First meeting of the
Homebrew Computer Club
1978
– The
Landsat 3
is launched from
Vandenberg Air Force Base
in
California
.
1979
– Soviet probes
Venera 11
,
Venera 12
and the American solar satellite
Helios 2
all are hit by
"off the scale" gamma rays
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
.
1984
– 6,000 Miners in the
United Kingdom
begin their
historic strike
at
Cortonwood
Colliery.
1988
–
Constitution
of
Turks and Caicos Islands
is restored and revised.
1991
– big uprising started in
ranye
town in as sulimanye parizg
iraq
,therefore de facto independesy for kurds in iraq.
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
.
Births
1133
–
King
Henry II of England
(d. 1189)
1324
–
King
David II of Scotland
(d. 1371)
1326
–
Louis I of Hungary
, the
King of Hungary
,
Croatia
,
Dalmatia
,
Jerusalem
and
Sicily
from 1342 and of
Poland
(d.
1382)
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
–
Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky
, Russian poet (d. 1768)
1713
–
Edward Cornwallis
, English military officer (d. 1776)
1713 –
Frederick Cornwallis
,
Archbishop of Canterbury
(d. 1783)
1723
–
Princess Mary of Great Britain
(d. 1773)
1739
–
Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge
, American physican and statesman (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)
1862
–
Siegbert Tarrasch
, German chess player (d. 1934)
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)
1882
–
Dora Marsden
, British editor, writer (d. 1960)
1883
–
Marius Barbeau
, French Canadian ethnographer and folklorist (d. 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 (d. 2003)
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
–
Jef Eygel
, Belgian basketball player (d. 2005)
1933 –
Kostas Linoxilakis
, Greek footballer
1933 –
Tommy Tucker
, American blues singer and pianist (d. 1982)
1934
–
Daniel Kahneman
, Israeli economist,
Nobel laureate
1934 –
James B.
Sikking
, American actor
1935
–
Philip K.
Chapman
, Australian astronaut and scientist
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 –
Peter Brandes
, Danish artist
1944 –
Roy Gutman
, American journalist,
Pulitzer Prize
winner
1946
–
Murray Head
, British actor and singer
1946 –
Lova Moor
, French singer and dancer
1946 –
Richard Bell
, Canadian musician (
The Band
) (d. 2007)
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
, German federal minister of defence
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
1955
–
Julien Dray
, French politician
1955 –
Georgios Papastamkos
, Greek politician
1956
–
Adriana Barraza
, Mexican actress
1956 –
Teena Marie
, American singer
1956 –
Marco Paolini
, Italian stage actor, dramaturge and author
1957
–
Mark E.
Smith
, English singer (
The Fall
)
1957
–
Ray Suarez
, American journalist and author
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
)
1963
–
Joel Osteen
, senior pastor of
Lakewood Church
and best selling author
1966
–
Michael Irvin
, American football player
1966 –
Bob Halkidis
, Canadian hockey player
1966 –
Aasif Mandvi
, Indian-born American actor and comedian
1968
–
Gordon Bajnai
, Hungarian Prime Minister
1969
–
Paul Blackthorne
, British actor
1969 –
Danny King
, British author
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
1971 –
Scott Mosier
, American producer
1972
–
Brian Grant
, American basketball player
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
–
Jared Crouch
, Australian rules footballer
1978 –
Mike Hessman
, American baseball player
1978 –
Kimberly McCullough
, American actress
1978
–
Papoose
, American rapper
1979
–
Tang Gonghong
, Chinese weightlifter
1981
–
Barret Jackman
, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 –
Paul Martin
, American ice hockey player
1981 –
Shugo Oshinari
, Japanese actor
1981 –
Andreas Wiig
, Norwegian snowboarder
1982
–
Daniel Carter
, New Zealand rugby player
1982 –
Giorgia Palmas
, Italian television personality and model
1984
–
Ryan Crowley
, Australian rules footballer
1985
–
Brad Mills
, American Baseball Player
1985 –
Ken'ichi Matsuyama
, Japanese actor
1985 –
Whitney Port
, American reality TV star
1986
–
Matty Fryatt
, English footballer
1987
–
Anna Chakvetadze
, Russian tennis player
1988
–
Trevor Carson
, Northern Irish footballer
1988 –
Bjarni Viðarsson
, Icelandic footballer
1989
–
Sterling Knight
, American actor
1989 –
Jake Lloyd
, American actor
1990
–
Alex Smithies
, English footballer (
Huddersfield Town
)
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)
1904
–
John Lowther du Plat Taylor
, founder of the
Army Postal Corps
and the
Post Office Rifles
(b. 1829)
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 marshal 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)
2007
–
Jack Frost
, American sea captain and pastor (b. 1952)
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
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