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What Happened on March 5th This Day in History

Year	Name
2021	Pope Francis begins a historical visit to Iraq[14] amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021	Twenty people are killed and 30 injured in a suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2018	Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pause the Deir ez-Zor campaign due to the Turkish-led invasion of Afrin.[11][12]
2012	Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar.
2003	In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.
1993	Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301 crashes at Skopje International Airport in Petrovec, North Macedonia, killing 83.
1991	Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 108 crashes in Venezuela, killing 45.
1982	Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus.
1981	The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden
1979	Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1978	The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1974	Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1970	The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1966	BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
1965	March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1963	American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.
1960	Indonesian President Sukarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members.
1953	Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
1946	Cold War: Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1944	World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
1943	First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft.
1942	World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
1940	Six high-ranking members of the Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
1939	Spanish Civil War: The National Defence Council seizes control of the republican government in a coup d'etat, with the intention of negotiating an end to the war.
1936	First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1933	Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1931	The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
1912	Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1906	Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
1872	George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1868	Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito, receives its premiere performance at La Scala.
1860	Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1850	The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1836	Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1825	Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
1824	First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1811	Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cádiz in the Battle of Barrosa.
1770	Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
1766	Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1616	Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
1496	King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
1279	The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
1046	Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
363	Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.

Famous People Born on March 5

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Year	Name
1830	Charles Wyville Thomson, Scottish historian and zoologist (d. 1882)
1958	Bob Forward, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1973	Špela Pretnar, Slovenian skier
1948	Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
1785	Carlo Odescalchi, Italian cardinal (d. 1841)
1971	Greg Berry, English footballer and coach
1968	Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian businessman and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Hungary
1918	Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2017)
1988	Liassine Cadamuro-Bentaïba, Algerian footballer
1523	Rodrigo de Castro Osorio, Spanish cardinal (d. 1600)

Famous People Deaths On March 5

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Date	Name
1988	Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor (b. 1933)
1974	John Samuel Bourque, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1894)
1239	Hermann Balk, German knight
2011	Manolis Rasoulis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
1950	Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, author, and playwright (b. 1868)
2005	David Sheppard, English cricketer and bishop (b. 1929)
2017	Kurt Moll, German opera singer (b. 1938)
1927	Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840)
1995	Vivian Stanshall, English singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1943)
1622	Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)