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Historical Events on March 5

363
Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
1046
Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1279
The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1496
King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
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.
1766
Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
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.
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.
1824
First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1836
Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1850
The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island 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
Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its premiere performance at La Scala.
1872
George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
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.
1912
Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
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.
1936
First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1940
Six high-ranking members of 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.
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.
1960
Indonesian President Soekarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members.
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.
1965
March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1970
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1974
Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1978
The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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.
1981
The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
1982
Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus.
1984
Six thousand miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
2003
In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.

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