March 5 in History

Historical Events on March 5

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.

1931 The British Raj: Gandhi-Irwin Pact is signed.

1933 Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.

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.

1942 World War II: Japanese forces captures Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which left undefended after the withdrawal of KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.

1944 World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman-Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.

1946 Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.

1974 Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.

2003 In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.

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Famous Birthdays on March 5

1133 Henry II of England

1886 Freddie Welsh

1898 Zhou Enlai

1959 Vazgen Sargsyan

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Famous Deaths on March 5

1827 Pierre-Simon Laplace

1953 Joseph Stalin

1963 Patsy Cline

2013 Hugo Chávez

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