March 5th Events |
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| March 5th, 2005 (March 05 2005) | Event | The Burkinabe Party for Democracy and Socialism holds its first National Convention. | |
| March 5th, 2003 (March 05 2003) | Event | In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre. | |
| March 5th, 2001 (March 05 2001) | Event | In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage. | |
| March 5th, 1999 (March 05 1999) | Event | Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut. | |
| March 5th, 1998 (March 05 1998) | Event | NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony. | |
| March 5th, 1991 (March 05 1991) | Event | Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners. | |
| March 5th, 1988 (March 05 1988) | Event | Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised. | |
| March 5th, 1982 (March 05 1982) | Event | Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus. | |
| March 5th, 1979 (March 05 1979) | Event | Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters. | |
| March 5th, 1979 (March 05 1979) | Event | Voyager 1 s closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles. | |
| March 5th, 1978 (March 05 1978) | Event | The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California. | |
| March 5th, 1976 (March 05 1976) | Event | The British pound falls below $2 USD for the first time. | |
| March 5th, 1974 (March 05 1974) | Event | Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal. | |
| March 5th, 1973 (March 05 1973) | Event | Donald DeFreeze, the future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison. | Bion Quotes |
| March 5th, 1970 (March 05 1970) | Event | The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations. | |
| March 5th, 1970 (March 05 1970) | Event | Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively. | |
| March 5th, 1966 (March 05 1966) | Event | BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124. | |
| March 5th, 1965 (March 05 1965) | Event | March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence. | |
| March 5th, 1964 (March 05 1964) | Event | Ceylon declares emergency crisis due to unrest. | |
| March 5th, 1960 (March 05 1960) | Event | The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase. | |
| March 5th, 1958 (March 05 1958) | Event | The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established. | |
| March 5th, 1958 (March 05 1958) | Event | Explorer 2 spacecraft launches and fails to reach Earth orbit. | |
| March 5th, 1949 (March 05 1949) | Event | The Jharkhand Party is founded in India. | |
| March 5th, 1946 (March 05 1946) | Event | Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri. | Winston Churchill Quotes |
| March 5th, 1946 (March 05 1946) | Event | Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc. | |
| March 5th, 1945 (March 05 1945) | Event | World War II: The "Battle of the Ruhr" begins. | |
| March 5th, 1943 (March 05 1943) | Event | First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom. | |
| March 5th, 1940 (March 05 1940) | Event | 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. | |
| March 5th, 1936 (March 05 1936) | Event | First flight of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft. | |
| March 5th, 1933 (March 05 1933) | Event | Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions. | |
| March 5th, 1933 (March 05 1933) | Event | In Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections. | |
| March 5th, 1915 (March 05 1915) | Event | World War I: The LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend. | |
| March 5th, 1912 (March 05 1912) | Event | Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines. | |
| March 5th, 1907 (March 05 1907) | Event | The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops. | |
| March 5th, 1905 (March 05 1905) | Event | Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days. | |
| March 5th, 1904 (March 05 1904) | Event | Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of the ball lightning formation. | Nikola Tesla Quotes |
| March 5th, 1894 (March 05 1894) | Event | Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury. | |
| March 5th, 1872 (March 05 1872) | Event | George Westinghouse patents the air brake. | |
| March 5th, 1868 (March 05 1868) | Event | A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson. | Andrew Johnson Quotes |
| March 5th, 1868 (March 05 1868) | Event | Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito premieres at La Scala. | |
| March 5th, 1861 (March 05 1861) | Event | The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America. | |
| March 5th, 1860 (March 05 1860) | Event | Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia. | |
| March 5th, 1850 (March 05 1850) | Event | The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened. | |
| March 5th, 1848 (March 05 1848) | Event | Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance. | |
| March 5th, 1842 (March 05 1842) | Event | Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande. | |
| March 5th, 1836 (March 05 1836) | Event | Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber. | |
| March 5th, 1824 (March 05 1824) | Event | First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma. | |
| March 5th, 1793 (March 05 1793) | Event | French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liege is recaptured. | |
| March 5th, 1784 (March 05 1784) | Event | Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade. | |
| March 5th, 1770 (March 05 1770) | Event | 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. | |
| March 5th, 1766 (March 05 1766) | Event | Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans. | |
| March 5th, 1689 (March 05 1689) | Event | Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department. | |
| March 5th, 1496 (March 05 1496) | Event | England King Henry VII issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to explore unknown lands. | |
| March 5th, 1046 (March 05 1046) | Event | Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama. | |
| March 5th, 0363 (March 05 0363) | Event | 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. | Julian Quotes |
