Major Events
- 363 Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign that brings about his own death
- 1046 Persian scholar Naser Khosrow begins the 7 year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama
- 1496 English King Henry VII grants John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) a commission to explore for new lands
- 1770 Boston Massacre (Incident on King Street): British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them. African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die; later held up as early black martyr. Massacre galvanizes anti-British feelings.
- 1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri, popularizes the term and draws attention to the division of Europe
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Mar 5 in Film & TV
- 2002 American reality TV program "The Osbournes" featuring family of Ozzy Osbourne premieres on MTV
Mar 5 in Music
- 1853 Piano company Steinway & Sons founded by Heinrich Steinweg (later Henry Steinway) in New York City
- 1971 "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin first played live at Ulster Hall, Belfast by Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones
Mar 5 in Sport
Did You Know?
Smoking tobacco introduced into Europe by Spanish physician Francisco Fernandes
Henry II of England
Soong Mei-ling
Zhou Enlai
Momofuku Ando
Daniel Kahneman
Yoshua Bengio
Rex Harrison
Andy Gibb
Penn Jillette
Eva Mendes
Kevin Connolly
Dan Carter
Fun Fact About March 5
Explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance that sank in 1915, is rediscovered after 107 years in excellent condition in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica
Famous Weddings
- 1760 Princess Carolina marries Gen Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg
- 1948 Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson
- 1987 American figure skater Dorothy Hamill (30) weds second husband Kenneth Douglas Forsythe; divorce in 1995
Famous Divorces
- 1993 Former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi
- 1998 Singer Mariah Carey and music mogul Tommy Mottola divorce after 2 years of marriage
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Alessandro Volta
Joseph Stalin
Patsy Cline
John Belushi
Richard Kuklinski
Hugo ChávezArticles, Photos and Quiz
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre as depicted by Paul Revere
March 5, 1770
Steinway & Sons Piano
Steinway Piano Advertisement circa 1866
March 5, 1853
Mass Murderer Stalin Goes to His Grave
Countless millions of Russians were killed by the hand of Joseph Stalin, one of the most feared and brutal dictators of all time. He himself died on this day.
March 5, 1953
