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March 5 is the 64th day of the year (65th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. PortalCurrent events International holidays February 2 - Candlemas February 5 - Shrove International holidays March 2 - Mothering Sunday (Britain March 7 - Nyepi (Indonesia International holidays and other major events April 1 - April Fools' Day April 4 - Qingming Festival (Mainland Events 86 BC - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army enters in Athens, removing the Tyrant Events 986 - Louis V becomes King of the Franks. 1127 - Assassination of Charles the Good Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of Events 161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus Events 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion. Events 590 - Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia. Events 241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing Events 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty Events 538 - Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving Events 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. Events 1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Events 597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king Events 45 BC - In his last victory Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger Events 37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius ' will and proclaims Caligula emperor Events 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. Events 1600 - The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden. Events 630 - Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem. Events 238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor. Events 1174 - Jocelin, Abbot of Melrose, is elected Bishop of Glasgow. Events 1401 - Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. 1603 - James VI of Scotland Events 1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6. Events 1026 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor. Events 196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt. 1309 - Pope Clement V excommunicates Events 37 - Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate. Events 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Events 240 BC - 1st recorded Perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common International holidays March 2 - Mothering Sunday (Britain March 7 - Nyepi (Indonesia March 2007 is the third month of the year It began on a Thursday, and ended 31 days later on a Saturday. Stories without links will be removed. News stories must be in English March 2005: ← - January 2005 - February 2005 - March - April 2005 - May 2005 - June 2005 - July 2005 March 2004: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September March 2002: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September March 2001: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September March 2000: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing one or more extra days (or in the case of Lunisolar calendars an extra month in order to keep the The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used Calendar in the world today There are 301 days remaining until the end of the year.

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links

Events

• 363 - 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. Events By Place Roman Empire March 5 — Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90000 against the The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman State during the imperial period (starting at about 27 BC Flavius Claudius Julianus, known also as Julian or Julian the Apostate (331 or 332 to 26 June 363) was Roman Emperor (Caesar Antioch on the Orontes (Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Δάφνῃ Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ Μεγάλη Antiochia ad Orontem also The Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Dynasty or Sassanian Dynasty (ساسانیان) is the name used for the third Iranian dynasty and the second Persian empire
• 1046 - Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama. Abu Mo’in Hamid ad-Din Nasir ibn Khusraw al-Qubadiani or Nasir Khusraw Qubadyani spelled ''Khusrow'' (1004 - 1088 AD ( was a Persian ( Tajik) poet philosopher The Middle East is a Subcontinent with no clear boundaries often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East. Safarnama is a Travel journal written during the 11th century by Nasir Khusraw (1003-1077
• 1496 - England King Henry VII issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to explore unknown lands. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Giovanni Caboto ( c 1450 - c 1498 known in English as John Cabot, was an Italian Navigator and explorer commonly credited as the
• 1689 - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department. Daniel Finch 2nd Earl of Nottingham 7th Earl of Winchilsea ( July 2 1647 &ndash January 1 1730) son of Heneage Finch 1st Earl of Nottingham The Secretary of State for the Northern Department was a position in the Cabinet of the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain up to 1782
• 1766 - Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans. Year 1766 ( MDCCLXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Antonio de Ulloa ( January 12, 1716 &ndash July 3, 1795) was a Spanish general explorer author Astronomer, colonial Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The State of Louisiana ( or, État de Louisiane, pronounced) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America New Orleans (nʲuːˈɔrliənz nʲuːˈɔrlənz French: La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana
• 1770 - 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. Year 1770 ( MDCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Friday This article is about the 1770 incident The Boston Massacre is also used colloquially to describe portions of a Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Crispus Attucks (c 1723 &ndash March 5 1770) was one of five people killed in the Boston Massacre in Boston Massachusetts. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located In this article the inhabitants of the thirteen colonies that supported the American Revolution are primarily referred to as "Americans" with occasional references to "Patriots"
• 1784 - Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade. Year 1784 ( MDCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Thomas Townshend 1st Viscount Sydney ( 24 February 1732 - 30 June 1800) was a British politician who held several important Cabinet posts in The Secretary of State for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (formerly the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry before the June 28, 2007
• 1793 - French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured. Year 1793 ( MDCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich Liège (ljɛːʒ Older English: Luick, Walloon: Lidje, German: Lüttich; Latin: Leodium, Dutch
• 1824 - First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma. Year 1824 ( MDCCCXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year The First Anglo–Burmese War lasted from 1823 to 1826 In the United Kingdom it is called the First Burmese War whereas Burmese custom names both belligerents See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar ( pjìdàunzṵ mjàmmà nàinŋàndɔ̀ is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia.
• 1836 - Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the . Year 1836 ( MDCCCXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Samuel Colt ( July 19, 1814 &ndash January 10, 1862) was an American inventor and Industrialist. rEVOLVEr is the fourth studio album by Swedish metal band The Haunted. 34-caliber.
• 1842 - Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande. Year 1842 ( MDCCCXLII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Rafael Vásquez Rodríguez is a Peruvian politician and a Congressman representing Lima for the 2006 - 2011 term Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State.
• 1848 - Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance. Year 1848 ( MDCCCXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès (1803 &ndash October 31, 1878) French Politician, fought on the barricades during the revolution of July The finance minister is a Cabinet position in a Government. A minister of Finance (also called financial affairs the treasury the economy or economic
• 1850 - The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened. For the game see 1850 (board game. 1850 ( MDCCCL) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link Britannia Bridge ( Welsh: Pont Britannia) is a bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland The Menai Strait ( Afon Menai, the "River Menai" is a narrow stretch of shallow tidal water about 14 miles (23 km long which separates the island of Anglesey History There are numerous Megalithic monuments and Menhirs present on Anglesey testifying to the presence of mankind in prehistory
• 1860 - Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia. Year 1860 ( MDCCLX) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year starting Parma is a City in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna near Modena famous for its Architecture and the fine countryside around it Tuscany (Toscana is a region in Italy. It has an area of 22990 km² and a population of about 3 Modena (ˈmɔːdena Mòdna in Modenese dialect is a city and a Comune ( Municipality) on the south side of the Po valley, in the Romagna is an Italian historical region that approximately corresponds to the south-eastern portion of present-day Emilia-Romagna. A referendum (plural referendums or referenda) ballot question, or plebiscite (from Latin plebiscita Kingdom of Sardinia, also known as Piedmont-Sardinia or Sardinia-Piedmont, was the name given to the possessions of the House of Savoy in 1720 when the
• 1861 - The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America. Year 1861 ( MDCCCLXI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Confederate States of America used several Flags during its existence from 1861 to 1865 The Confederate States of America used several Flags during its existence from 1861 to 1865
• 1868 - A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson. Year 1868 ( MDCCCLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Impeachment is the first of two stages in a specific process for a legislative body to forcibly remove a Government official The United States Senate is the Upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the Lower house being the House of Representatives The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by Andrew Johnson (December 29 1808 – July 31 1875 was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865-69 succeeding to the Presidency upon the assassination
• 1868 - Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito premieres at La Scala. Mefistofele is an Opera in a prologue four acts and an epilogue the only completed opera by the Italian Composer - Librettist Arrigo Boito ( February 24, 1842 &ndash June 10, 1918) aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito Pseudonym Tobia Gorrio was an Italian The Teatro alla Scala (or La Scala, as it is known in Milan, Italy, is one of the world's most famous Opera houses The theatre was
• 1872 - George Westinghouse patents the air brake. Year 1872 ( MDCCCLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year George Westinghouse Jr ( 6 October 1846 &ndash 12 March 1914) was an American Entrepreneur and Engineer An air brake is a conveyance braking system applied by means of compressed air.
• 1894 - Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury. Year 1894 ( MDCCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Archibald Philip Primrose 5th Earl of Rosebery, KG, PC (7 May 1847 &ndash 21 May 1929 was a British Liberal Statesman and The First Lord of the Treasury is the head of the commission exercising the ancient office of Lord High Treasurer in the United Kingdom, usually but not
• 1904 - Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of the ball lightning formation. Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on There have already been discussions about Tesla's ethnicity on the talk page Ball lightning is an atmospheric electrical phenomenon the physical nature of which is still Controversial.
• 1905 - Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days. Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Shenyang ( Ch: 沈阳 pinyin Shěnyáng, or Mukden ( in Manchu) is a Sub-provincial city and capital of Liaoning Manchuria ( Romanized Manchu: Manju,, Маньчжурия Mongolian: Манж is a historical name given to a vast geographic region in northeast
• 1907 - The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops. Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year A Duma (Ду́ма is any of various representative assemblies in modern Russia and Russian history Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River
• 1912 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines. Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Terminology In some countries airships are also known as dirigibles from the French (fr ''diriger'' to direct plus -ible) meaning "directable" Reconnaissance (also scouting) is a military and medical term denoting exploration conducted to gain information Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches
• 1915 - World War I: The LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All This is a complete list of Zeppelins constructed by the original German Zeppelin companies from 1900 until 1938 ||-||-||} Ostend  (  Oostende, French and German Ostende) is a Belgian City and municipality located in the Flemish
• 1933 - Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States Bank Holiday of the Great Depression took place in 1933 when Franklin D S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
• 1933 - In Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German A parliamentary system, also known as parliamentarianism (and parliamentarism in American English) is a System of government in which
• 1936 - First flight of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Supermarine was a British aircraft manufacturer that become famous for producing a range of sea planes and the legendary Supermarine Spitfire fighter WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout A fighter aircraft is a Military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat with other Aircraft, as opposed to a Bomber, which is designed
• 1940 - 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. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A soviet (сове́т, "council" originally was a workers' local council in late Imperial Russia. Politburo, short for Political Bureau, Russian Politicheskoye Buro, is the executive organization for a number of Political parties, most notably Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland For the coffee shop company often called Intelligentsia for short see Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea.
• 1943 - First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout
• 1945 - World War II: The "Battle of the Ruhr" begins. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Ruhr Pocket was a battle of encirclement that took place in late March and early April 1945 near the end of World War II, in the Ruhr Area of
• 1946 - Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC, PC (Can ( 30 November 1874 The " Iron Curtain " was the symbolic ideological and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II until the end Westminster College is a private Liberal arts institution in Fulton Missouri, USA
• 1946 - Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc. Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based Social democracy is a Political ideology of the left and centre-left Left Bloc (in Hungarian: Baloldali Blokk) was a political alliance in Hungary, functioning between 1946 and 1948
• 1949 - The Jharkhand Party is founded in India. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Jharkhand Party, a Political party in India. The party was founded on March 5 1949 at a large conference in Ranchi. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country
• 1958 - The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Guangxi (or Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region;) is a Zhuang autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. An autonomous area is an area of a Country that has a degree of Autonomy, or freedom from an external authority
• 1958 - Explorer 2 spacecraft launches and fails to reach Earth orbit. Explorer 2 (EXPLR2 was to be a repeat of the Explorer 1 mission EARTH was a short-lived Japanese vocal trio which released 6 singles and 1 album between 2000 and 2001
• 1960 - The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The aquatic ape hypothesis (AAH, sometimes referred to as the aquatic ape theory, asserts that wading swimming and diving for food exerted a strong Evolutionary effect Sir Alister Clavering Hardy ( 10 February 1896 &ndash 22 May 1985) was an Oxford -educated Marine biologist, expert on
• 1964 - Ceylon declares emergency crisis due to unrest. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ( Sinhalese:, இலங்கை known as Ceylon before 1972 is an Island
• 1965 - March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. The March Intifada ( was an uprising that broke out in Bahrain in March 1965 The Kingdom of Bahrain (in مملكة البحرين,, literally Kingdom of the Two Seas) is an Island country in the Persian Gulf
• 1966 - BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. BOAC Flight 911 ( Speedbird 911) was a round-the-world flight operated by British Overseas Airways Corporation. is the highest Mountain in Japan at.An Active volcano that last erupted in 1707–08 it straddles the boundary of Shizuoka and For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.
• 1970 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, also Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT or NNPT) is a Treaty to limit the spread
• 1970 - Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively. Dubnium (ˈduːbniəm is a Chemical element in the Periodic table that has the symbol Db and Atomic number 105
• 1973 - Donald DeFreeze, the future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Donald David DeFreeze ( November 16, 1943 &ndash May 17, 1974) aka Cinque Mtume, was the leader of the Symbionese Liberation The Symbionese Liberation Army ( SLA) was an American self-styled urban Guerrilla warfare group active between 1973 and 1975 that considered itself a Two Prisons are located in Vacaville, California, USA: California Medical Facility (CMF California State Prison
• 1974 - Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War or October War (מלחמת יום הכיפורים transliterated: Milkhemet Yom HaKipurim or מלחמת יום For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. The Suez Canal is a Canal in Egypt. Opened in 1869 it allows Water transportation between Europe and Asia without circumnavigation
• 1976 - The British pound falls below $2 USD for the first time. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Pound Sterling ( symbol £; ISO code: GBP) subdivided into 100 pence (singular penny) is the Currency The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been
• 1978 - The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) The Landsat program is the longest running enterprise for acquisition of imagery of Earth from space Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a Spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean.
• 1979 - Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Gamma-ray bursts ( GRB s are the most luminous electromagnetic events occurring in the Universe since the Big Bang. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC is a nearby Satellite galaxy of our own galaxy the Milky Way. A soft gamma repeater ( SGR) is an astronomical object which emits large bursts of Gamma rays and X-rays at irregular intervals
• 1979 - Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles. The Voyager 1 spacecraft is a 722-kilogram robotic Space probe of the outer Solar system and beyond launched September 5,
• 1982 - Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Venera 14 (Венера-14 was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus. The VENUS ( V ictoria E xperimental N etwork U nder the S ea project is a cabled sea floor observatory operated by the University
• 1988 - Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) A constitution is a system for government often Codified as a written document that establishes the rules and principles of an autonomous political entity The Turks and Caicos Islands ( TCI) (ˈtɜːks ænd ˈkeɪkəs are a British Overseas Territory consisting of two groups of tropical islands in the West Indies
• 1991 - Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iraq topics.
• 1998 - NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA, ˈnæsə is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program Spacecraft design The spacecraft was an octagonal prism 188 m high and 1
• 1999 - Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Paul Okalik ( Inuktitut syllabics: ᐹᓪ ᐅᑲᓕᖅ, ˈukælɪk MLA is the first and current Premier of the Canadian territory This is a list of the Premiers of Nunavut Territory Canada, since its creation in 1999.
• 2001 - In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Mecca ˈmɛkə also spelled Makkah ˈmækə (in full Makkah Al-Mukarramah (Arabic mækːæ(t ælmʊkarˑamæ مكّة المكرمة, literally Honored A Muslim (مسلم pronounced Muslim, not Muzlim) is an adherent of the Religion The Hajj (حج is a pilgrimage to Mecca (Makkah It is the largest annual pilgrimage in the world In Religion and Spirituality, a pilgrimage is a long journey or Search of great Moral significance
• 2003 - In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Haifa (חֵיפָה; حَيْفَا) is the largest City in Northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country with Ḥamas (ar حركة حماس acronym ar حركة المقاومة The Haifa bus 37 Suicide bombing was a terrorist attack carried out by Palestinian group Hamas.
• 2005 - The Burkinabé Party for Democracy and Socialism holds its first National Convention. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Burkina Faso (bɚˌkiːnəˈfɑːsoʊ burr-KEE-na FAH-soh) also known by its short-form name Burkina, is a Landlocked nation in West Africa The Party for Democracy and Socialism (Parti pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme is a registered Political party in Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta

Births

• 1133 - King Henry II of England (d. 1189)
• 1324 - King David II of Scotland (d. Daibhidh a Briuis ( Modern Gaelic: Dàibhidh Bruis) anglicised as David II ( 5 March 1324 &ndash 22 February 1371)
• 1512 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. A separate article is about the mathematician Nicholas Mercator. 1594)
• 1563 - John Coke, English politician (d. Sir John Coke ( March 5, 1563 - September 8, 1644) English Politician, was educated at Trinity College Cambridge 1644)
• 1575 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (d. William Oughtred ( March 5, 1575 – June 30, 1660) was an English Mathematician. 1660)
• 1585 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. John George I (German Johann Georg I; 5 March 1585 - 8 October 1656) was Elector of Saxony from 1611 to 1656 1656)
• 1658 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. Antoine Laumet de La Mothe sieur de Cadillac (1658-1730 was the founder of Detroit, Michigan. 1730)
• 1693 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. Year 1730 ( MDCCXXX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Johann Jakob Wettstein (also Wetstein) ( March 5, 1693 - March 23, 1754) was a Swiss theologian best known as a New 1754)
• 1696 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. Year 1754 ( MDCCLIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or See also Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (or Giandomenico Tiepolo) or Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo, both sons of Giovanni Battista 1770)
• 1703 (N. Year 1770 ( MDCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Friday Year 1703 ( MDCCIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year S. ) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky ( Василий Кириллович Тредиаковский (Тредьяковский in Astrakhan &mdash in Sankt Petersburg 1768)
• 1723 - Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. Year 1768 ( MDCCLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1723 ( MDCCXXIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a For other persons known as Princess Mary see Princess Mary The Princess Mary ( 5 March 1723 &ndash 14 January 1772) was 1773)
• 1739 - Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, doctor, Massachusetts militia officer, member of the Massachusetts legislature (d. Year 1773 ( MDCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1739 ( MDCCXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge (1739–1819 of South Hadley Massachusetts, practiced medicine and law was a colonel in the Massachusetts militia during the Militia of the Colony and later Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1819)
• 1748 - Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. Year 1819 ( MDCCCXIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar in the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Year 1748 ( MDCCXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Jonas Carlsson Dryander ( 5 March 1748 &ndash 19 October 1810) was a Swedish botanist. 1810)
• 1748 - William Shield, English musician (d. Year 1810 ( MDCCCX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year William Shield ( March 5, 1748 &ndash January 25, 1829) was an English Composer, Violinist and violist 1829)
• 1750 - Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical scholar (d. For the game see 1829 (board game. Year 1829 ( MDCCCXXIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display Year 1750 ( MDCCL) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse (or Dannse) de Villoison ( March 5, 1750 (or 1753 &ndash April 25, 1805) was a Classical 1805)
• 1794 - Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. Year 1805 ( MDCCCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or Year 1794 ( MDCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Jacques Babinet ( March 5 1794 in Lusignan France &ndash October 21 1872 in Paris France) was a French physicist 1872)
• 1794 - Robert Cooper Grier, Justice of the U. Year 1872 ( MDCCCLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Robert Cooper Grier ( March 5, 1794 - September 25, 1870) was an American Jurist who served on the Supreme Court of S. Supreme Court (d. 1870)
• 1814 - Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. Year 1870 ( MDCCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1814 ( MDCCCXIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Friedrich Wilhelm von Giesebrecht ( March 5, 1814 – December 17, 1889) was a German Historian. 1889)
• 1815 - John Wentworth, American politician (d. Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1815 ( MDCCCXV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year "Long" John Wentworth (March 5 1815 &ndash October 16 1888 was the editor of the Chicago Democrat, a two-term Mayor of Chicago 1888)
• 1817 - Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist (d. Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1817 ( MDCCCXVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Right Honourable Sir Austen Henry Layard (ˈɔːstɪn ˈhɛnriː lɛəd 5 March, 1817 – 5 July, 1894) was a 1894)
• 1836 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. Year 1894 ( MDCCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1836 ( MDCCCXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Charles Goodnight ( March 5, 1836 &ndash December 12, 1929) was a cattle rancher in the American West, perhaps the 1929)
• 1853 - Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1853 ( MDCCCLIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Howard Pyle ( March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American Illustrator and writer primarily of books for young audiences 1911)
• 1867 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Louis-Alexandre Taschereau ( March 5 1867 - July 6 1952) was a Premier of Quebec from 1920 to 1936 1952)
• 1869 - Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal and archbishop (d. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1869 ( MDCCCLXIX) is a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber (born March 3, 1869 in Klosterheidenfeld Unterfranken, died June 12, 1952 in Munich 1952)
• 1870 - Frank Norris, American writer (d. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1870 ( MDCCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr ( March 5 1870 – October 25 1902) was an American novelist during the Progressive Era, writing 1902)
• 1871 - Rosa Luxemburg, Socialist revolutionary (d. Year 1902 ( MCMII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1871 ( MDCCCLXXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Rosa Luxemburg (Róża Luksemburg 5 March 1870 or 1871 15 January 1919 was a Polish-born Jewish German Marxist theorist, socialist 1919)
• 1873 - Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1873 ( MDCCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Olav Bjaaland ( March 5, 1873 - June 8, 1961) was a Norwegian ski champion and one of the first five to reach the South Pole on the 1961)
• 1874 - Henry Travers, British actor (d. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1874 ( MDCCCLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Henry Travers ( March 5, 1874 &ndash October 18, 1965) was an English Actor. 1965)
• 1879 - Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Year 1879 ( MDCCCLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Sir is an Honorific used as a title (see Knight) and in several other modern contexts For the Scottish footballer and athlete see William Beveridge (footballer William Henry Beveridge 1st Baron Beveridge ( 5 March 1963)
• 1883 - Marius Barbeau, French Canadian ethnographer and folklorist (b. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1883 ( MDCCCLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Charles Marius Barbeau ( March 5, 1883 &ndash February 27, 1969) also known as C 1969)
• 1886 - Dong Biwu, High-ranking member of the Communist Party of China (d. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Dong Biwu ( Chinese: 董必武 Pinyin: Dǒng Bìwǔ Wade-Giles: Tung Pi-wu 1886 - 2 April 1975 was a Chinese communist political 1975)
• 1887 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1887 ( MDCCCLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5 1887 &ndash November 17 1959 was a Brazilian Composer, possibly the best-known classical composer born in South America 1959)
• 1897 - Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (d. The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Set Persson (1897-1960 was a Swedish communist leader Persson was born on March 5 1897 in Stockholm, but as an orphan he was raised by relatives 1960)
• 1898 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Zhou Enlai ( (5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976 was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, serving from 1949 until his death in January 1976 The Premier of the State Council ( sometimes incorrectly referred to as the "Prime Minister" is the Chairman of the State Council of the People's Republic of China 1976)
• 1898 - Soong May-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-Shek (d. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Soong May-ling or Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek ( ca 1897 She was the third of six children she was born in Shanghai Chiang Kai-shek ( POJ: Chiúⁿ Kài-se̍k Jyutping: zoeng2gaai3sek6 GCB ( October 31, 1887 &ndash 2003)
• 1904 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on Karl Rahner, SJ ( March 5, 1904 &mdash March 30, 1984) was a German theologian one of the most influential Roman 1984)
• 1908 - Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (d. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) Year 1908 ( MCMVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Irving Fiske ( March 5 1908 – April 25, 1990) born Irving Fishman in Brooklyn New York, was a playwright inventor freelance writer 1990)
• 1908 - Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (d. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Sir Reginald “Rex” Carey Harrison (5 March 1908 - 2 June 1990 was an English Academy Award and Tony Award -winning Theatre and 1990)
• 1914 - Philip Farkas, American horn player and teacher (d. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Philip Farkas ( March 5, 1914 &ndash December 21, 1992) was principal hornist in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for many 1992)
• 1915 - Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Laurent-Moïse Schwartz ( 5 March 1915 in Paris &ndash 4 July 2002 in Paris) was a French Mathematician 2002)
• 1918 - Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager
• 1918 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and ice hockey referee (d. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Milton Conrad Schmidt (born March 5, 1918) is a former professional Ice hockey center, coach and general manager mostly for the Boston Roy Alvin "Red" Storey CM ( March 5 1918 – March 15 2006) was a Canadian football player and 2006)
• 1918 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. James Tobin ( March 5, 1918 March 11, 2002) was an American Economist. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially named The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk 2002)
• 1920 - José Aboulker, Jewish Communist
• 1920 - Virginia Christine, American actress (d. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar José Aboulker (b March 5, 1920) was a member of the anti- Nazi resistance who co-founded a resistance network in Algiers in World War II Virginia Christine ( March 5, 1920 - July 24, 1996) was an American Film and Television Actress 1996)
• 1921 - Elmer Valo, American baseball player (d. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Elmer William Valo ( March 5 1921 - July 19 1998) was a Slovak - American Right fielder, coach and 1998)
• 1922 - James Noble, American actor
• 1922 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer and film director (d. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. James Noble (born March 5, 1922 in Dallas Texas) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of the slightly daffy Governor Eugene Pier Paolo Pasolini ( March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian Poet, Intellectual, Film director 1975)
• 1923 - Laurence Tisch, American investor
• 1927 - Jack Cassidy, American actor (d. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Laurence Alan Tisch (born March 5, 1923, died November 15, 2003) was a Jewish American Businessman, Wall Street Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. John Joseph Edward “Jack” Cassidy ( March 5, 1927 &ndash December 12, 1976) was an American Actor of stage 1976)
• 1929 - Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver
• 1930 - Del Crandall, American baseball player
• 1931 - Fred Othon Aristidès, French comics artist
• 1931 - Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn virtuoso
• 1933 - Tommy Tucker, American blues singer and pianist (d. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Erik Carlsson, aka "Carlsson på taket" ("Carlsson on the roof" was born March 5, 1929 in Trollhättan, Sweden and was Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Delmar Wesley Crandall (born March 5 1930 in Ontario California) is a former Catcher and manager in Major League Baseball Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Fred Othon Aristidès, known by his Pseudonym Fred, is a French Comics artist and Comic book creator in the Franco-Belgian comics Professor Barry Emmanuel Tuckwell AC, OBE, is an Australian French horn player who has spent most of his professional life in the UK and the USA Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. ---- Tommy Tucker (born Robert Higginbotham, 5 March 1933 - 22 January 1982) was an American Blues Singer-songwriter 1982)
• 1934 - Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist, Nobel laureate
• 1934 - James B. Sikking, American actor
• 1936 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (d. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Daniel Kahneman (דניאל כהנמן (born 5 March 1934 is an Israeli American psychologist and Nobel laureate, notable for his work on The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially named The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk James Barrie Sikking (born March 5, 1934) is an American Actor known for his role as Lt Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Canaan Sodindo Banana (5 March 1936 10 November 2003 served as the first President of Zimbabwe from 18 April 1980 until 31 December 1987 This page contains a list of presidents of Zimbabwe. Canaan Banana was a "figurehead" president but Mugabe has been an executive 2003)
• 1936 - Dean Stockwell, American actor
• 1937 - Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ, President of Nigeria
• 1938 - Paul Evans, American singer and songwriter
• 1938 - Fred Williamson, American football player and actor
• 1939 - Samantha Eggar, English actress
• 1939 - Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer
• 1939 - Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef
• 1940 - Malcolm Hebden, English actor
• 1942 - Felipe González, Prime Minister of Spain
• 1942 - Mike Resnick, American science fiction author
• 1943 - Billy Backus, American boxer
• 1944 - Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (d. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Dean Stockwell (born March 5, 1936) is an Academy Award -nominated Emmy Award -nominated Cannes Award and Golden Globe Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. General (rtd Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo, GCFR (Oluṣẹgun Mathew Okikiọla Arẹmu Ọbasanjọ olúʃɛ̙́ɡũ ɒ̙básandʒɒ̙́ (born circa March History When Nigeria became a Federal republic within the Commonwealth in 1963 it retained the Parliamentary system of government inherited from Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Paul Evans (born 5 March 1938, in Queens, New York) is a Rock and roll Singer and Songwriter who was most prominent Fred “The Hammer” Williamson (born March 5, 1938) is an American actor architect and former professional football player a star defensive back in Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar (born 5 March 1939 in Hampstead, London) is an Academy Award -nominated Peter Woodcock (born March 5, 1939) is a Canadian Serial killer and child rapist who murdered three young children in Toronto, Pierre Wynants (born March 5, 1939 in Brussels) is a Belgian Chef. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Malcolm Hebden (born 5 March 1940, Chester) is an English television and stage actor best known for his Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Felipe González Márquez (born 5 March 1942 is a Spanish socialist politician The Prime Minister of Spain, (officially the President of the Government, Spanish: Presidente del Gobierno) is the Spanish Head of government Michael "Mike" Diamond Resnick (born Chicago, March 5, 1942) better known by his published name Mike Resnick, is a popular and prolific Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Billy Backus, born March 5, 1943 in Canastota New York, is a former world Boxing champion Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Lucio Battisti ( 5 March 1943 - 9 September 1998) was an Italian singer-songwriter 1998)
• 1944 - Roy Gutman, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
• 1946 - Murray Head, British actor and singer
• 1946 - Richard Bell, Canadian musician (The Band)
• 1947 - Eddie Hodges, American actor and singer
• 1947 - Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer
• 1947 - Kent Tekulve, American baseball player
• 1948 - Eddy Grant, Guyana-born singer
• 1948 - Richard Hickox, English musical conductor
• 1948 - Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
• 1948 - Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Roy Gutman (born March 5, 1944, New York City) is an American journalist and author The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Murray Head (born Murray Seafield Saint-George Head, 5 March 1946, London) is an English Actor and Singer, Richard Bell (b March 5 1946, Toronto - d June 15 2007, Toronto) was a Canadian Musician. The Band was a rock group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999 Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Eddie Hodges (born 5 March 1947 Kenton Charles Tekulve (born March 5 1947 in Cincinnati Ohio) is a former right-handed Relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Edmond Montague Grant (born 5 March 1948 in Plaisance, Guyana) is a British Reggae Musician. Richard Sidney Hickox CBE (born March 5 1948) is an English conductor of choral, Orchestral and Operatic Elaine Paige OBE (née Bickerstaff born 5 March 1948 is an English Singer and actress, best known for her work in Musical theatre Paquirri (born Francisco Rivera Pérez March 5, 1948 in Zahara de los Atunes, Cádiz, Spain - September 26 1984)
• 1949 - Franz Josef Jung, Commander-in-chief of the German Bundeswehr
• 1951 - Giorgos Ninios, Greek actor
• 1952 - Alan Clark, English keyboardist (Dire Straits)
• 1954 - Marsha Warfield, American actress, comedienne
• 1955 - Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian
• 1956 - Adriana Barraza, Mexican actress
• 1956 - Teena Marie, American singer
• 1957 - Mark E. Smith, English singer (The Fall)
• 1958 - Andy Gibb, English-born Australian singer and teen idol (d. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Franz Josef Jung (born 5 March 1949) is a German Politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU. The Bundeswehr ( German for "Federal Defence Force") is the name of the unified Armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Giorgos Ninios (born March 5, 1951) is a Greek Television, Film and stage actor with an extensive filmography Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Alan Clark (born March 5, 1952, in Great Lumley, Durham, England) was one of the Keyboardists for the English Dire Straits was a British rock band, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (guitar and vocals his brother David Knopfler (guitar Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Marsha Warfield (born March 5, 1954 in Chicago Illinois) is an American Actress and Comedian, best known for her Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American Comedian, Illusionist, juggler and Writer known Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Adriana Barraza (born March 5, 1956) is an Academy Award -nominated Mexican Film and Television Actress Teena Marie (born Mary Christine Brockert on March 5, 1956) is an American Grammy Award -nominated Singer / Songwriter Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Mark Edward Smith (born 5 March 1957) is the Lead singer, Lyricist, Frontman, and sole constant member of English The Fall are an English Post-punk band formed in Prestwich, Greater Manchester in 1976 Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Andy Gibb ( Manchester, 5 March 1958 – Oxford, 10 March 1988 was an English Singer and Teen idol, and the youngest brother 1988)
• 1959 - Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian politician (d. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Vazgen Sargsyan (Վազգեն Սարգսյան March 5, 1959 &ndash October 27 1999; also written Vasgen Sarkisyan Sarkissian or Sarkisyan 1999)
• 1959 - David Fury, American television writer and producer
• 1960 - David Tibet, English musician (Current 93)
• 1962 - Jonathan Penner, American reality show contestant
• 1962 - Charlie and Craig Reid, Scottish musicians (The Proclaimers)
• 1966 - Michael Irvin, American football player
• 1966 - Bob Halkidis, Canadian hockey player
• 1966 - Aasif Mandvi, Indian-born American actor and comedian
• 1969 - Paul Blackthorne, British actor
• 1969 - Moussa Saïb, former Algerian footballer
• 1969 - MC Solaar, French rapper
• 1970 - John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• 1970 - Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress
• 1971 - Jeffrey Hammonds, American baseball player
• 1971 - Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
• 1971 - Yuri Lowenthal, American actor/author/painter
• 1972 - Luca Turilli, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
• 1973 - Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer
• 1973 - Ryan Franklin, American baseball player
• 1974 - Kevin Connolly, American television actor and comedian
• 1974 - Jens Jeremies, German footballer
• 1974 - Matt Lucas, English comedian
• 1974 - Eva Mendes, American actress
• 1975 - Jolene Blalock, American actress
• 1975 - Sasho Petrovski, Australian soccer player
• 1975 - Niki Taylor, American model
• 1975 - Luciano Burti, Brazilian racing driver
• 1976 - Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1976 - Paul Konerko, American baseball player
• 1976 - Katerina Matziou, Greek actress
• 1977 - Bryan Berard, American ice hockey player
• 1977 - Mike MacDougal, American baseball player
• 1977 - Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player
• 1978 - Mike Hessman, American baseball player
• 1978 - Kimberly McCullough, American actress
• 1978 - Papoose, American rapper
• 1979 - Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter
• 1981 - Andreas Wiig, Norwegian snowboarder
• 1981 - Paul Martin, American ice hockey player
• 1981 - Shugo Oshinari, Japanese actor
• 1982 - Daniel Carter, New Zealand Rugby player
• 1982 - Giorgia Palmas, Italian television personality and model
• 1985 - Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
• 1985 - Whitney Port, Cast member of The Hills TV series
• 1986 - Matty Fryatt, English footballer
• 1987 - Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
• 1988 - Trevor Carson, Northern Irish footballer
• 1988 - Bjarni Viðarsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1989 - Jake Lloyd, American actor

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• 1534 - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) David Fury (born on 5 March 1959 in New York City New York) is an American television Screenwriter and producer, Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. David Tibet (born David Michael Bunting, 5 March 1960 in Batu Gajah, Malaysia) is a British poet and Artist who Current 93 are an eclectic British Experimental music group working since the early 1980s in folk -based musical forms Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Jonathan Lindsay Penner (born March 5, 1962) is an Academy Award -nominated American Actor, writer and producer known for starring The Proclaimers are a Scottish band composed of identical twins Charlie and Craig Reid (born March 5, 1962) The Proclaimers are a Scottish band composed of identical twins Charlie and Craig Reid (born March 5, 1962) Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Michael Jerome Irvin (born March 5, 1966) is a former American football player for the Dallas Cowboys. Bob Halkidis (born March 5, 1966 in Toronto, Ontario) is a retired former professional Ice hockey player Aasif Mandvi (born March 5, 1966) is an Indian American Actor and Comedian. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Paul Blackthorne ( March 5, 1969) is a British actor on film television and radio Moussa Saïb (born 5 March 1969 in Theniet-El-Had, Algeria) is a former Algerian footballer MC Solaar is the Stage name of Claude M'Barali (born March 5, 1969) a Francophone hip hop and rap artist Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. John Anthony Frusciante (pronounced) (born March 5 1970 is an American Guitarist, singer songwriter and record producer Red Hot Chili Peppers are Lisa Robin Kelly (born March 5, 1970) is an American actress Career Early appearances She first made her debut at 21 Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Jeffrey Bryan Hammonds (born March 5, 1971 in Plainfield New Jersey) is a former Major League Baseball player "Evil" Jared Hasselhoff (born Jared Hennegan on August 5, 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is the bassist for the band Yuri Lowenthal (born on March 5, 1971 in Alliance Ohio) is a Voice actor that has voiced several Anime and Video game Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Luca Turilli (born 5 March 1972) is an Italian Musician (primarily a guitarist and composer Rhapsody of Fire (formerly known as ThunderCross and - more recently - Rhapsody) is an Italian Symphonic Power metal band led by Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Yannis Anastasiou (born 5 March 1973 in Arta) is a former Greek footballer. Ryan Ray Franklin (born March 5, 1973 in Fort Smith Arkansas) is a Major League Baseball player Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Kevin Connolly (born March 5, 1974) is an American actor and director Jens Jeremies (born March 5, 1974) is a German footballer. As of 2006, he has retired from professional football Matthew Richard Lucas (born 5 March 1974) is an English Comedian and Actor. Eva Mendes (born March 5, 1974) is an American actress She began acting in the late 1990s and became known after a series of roles in several major Hollywood Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Jolene Blalock (born March 5 1975 in San Diego California) is an American actress best known for playing Sub-Commander (later Commander Sašo Petrovski (born March 5, 1975) is an Australian Football (soccer player with Macedonian ancestry Nicole Renee "Niki" Taylor (born March 5, 1975) is an American model. Luciano Pucci Burti (born in São Paulo, March 5, 1975) is a Brazilian racing driver who briefly raced in Formula One. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Šarūnas Jasikevičius ( born on March 5, 1976 in Kaunas, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR) is a Lithuanian Paul Henry Konerko (kʰəˈnɛɹkoʊ born March 5, 1976, in Providence Rhode Island) is a First baseman in Major League Baseball Katerina Mantziou (born March 5, 1976) is a Greek actress She is best known for her portrayal of Andreas' Sexy secretary in Ta Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Bryan Wallace Berard (born March 5 1977 Woonsocket Rhode Island) is an American professional Ice hockey player currently an unrestricted free agent Robert Meiklejohn "Mike" MacDougal (born March 5, 1977 in Las Vegas Nevada) is a Relief pitcher in Major League Baseball Walter Robert "Wally" Szczerbiak (pronounced Surh-Bee-Ak (born March 5 1977) is an American professional Basketball player for Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) Michael Steven Hessman (born March 5, 1978 in Fountain Valley California) is a Major League Baseball First baseman for the Detroit Kimberly Anne McCullough (born March 5, 1978) is an Emmy Award -winning American actress dancer and director Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) Shamele Mackie, better known by his Stage name Papoose (pæˈpuːs is an American Rapper. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Tang Gonghong ( born March 5, 1979 in Yantai) is a female Chinese weightlifter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Andreas Wiig is a Norwegian professional snowboarder. He rides regular. Paul Martin (born March 5, 1981 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a professional Ice hockey defenseman. is a Japanese Actor most well-known for his roles in the controversial Battle Royale II Requiem (2003 Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Daniel William "Dan" Carter (born 5 March 1982 in Southbridge, near Christchurch, New Zealand is a New Zealand Rugby union footballer Giorgia Palmas (born on 5 March 1982 in Cagliari, Sardinia) is an Italian television personality Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) is a well known Japanese Actor. He is known for his affinity for strange character roles Whitney Eve Port (born March 4 1985) is part of the MTV Reality television series The Hills. Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) Matthew Charles "Matty" Fryatt (born 5 March 1986 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire) is an English footballer currently Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) Anna Djambulilovna Chakvetadze (Анна Джамбулиловна Чакветадзе born March 5, 1987, Moscow) is a Russian professional Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Trevor Carson (born March 5 1988 in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish professional footballer currently Bjarni Þór Viðarsson (born March 5, 1988) is a young Icelandic footballer playing for FC Twente as a Midfielder. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Jacob Christopher "Jake" Lloyd (born March 5, 1989) is an American actor who gained worldwide fame when he was chosen by George Lucas 1489)
• 1539 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. Nuno da Cunha (c 1487 &ndash March 5, 1539) was a governor of Portuguese possessions in India 1487)
• 1592 - Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. Michael Coxcie ( Mechelen 1499 &ndash March 5, 1592) was a Flemish painter who studied under Bernard van Orley, who 1499)
• 1611 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. was a Daimyo of Satsuma Province and the eldest son of Shimazu Takahisa. 1533)
• 1622 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. Ranuccio I Farnese ( March 28, 1569 &ndash March 5, 1622) was the fourth Duke of Parma and Piacenza 1569)
• 1695 - Henry Wharton, English writer (b. Henry Wharton ( 9 November 1664 - 5 March 1695) English writer was descended from Thomas 2nd Baron Wharton (1520-1572 1664)
• 1726 - Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
• 1770 - Crispus Attucks a free black American
• 1776 - Yeongjo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. Year 1726 ( MDCCXXVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Evelyn Pierrepont 5th Earl and 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull (c Year 1770 ( MDCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Friday Crispus Attucks (c 1723 &ndash March 5 1770) was one of five people killed in the Boston Massacre in Boston Massachusetts. Year 1776 ( MDCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Yeongjo (1694-1776 r 1724-1776 was the twenty-first king of the Korean Joseon Dynasty. 1694)
• 1778 - Thomas Arne, English composer (b. Year 1778 ( MDCCLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or Thomas Augustine Arne (12 March 1710 &ndash 5 March 1778 was an English Composer, best known for the patriotic Rule Britannia!. 1710)
• 1815 - Franz Mesmer, Austrian developer of hypnotism (b. Year 1710 ( MDCCX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year Year 1815 ( MDCCCXV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Franz Anton Mesmer (born Friedrich Anton Mesmer; May 23, 1734 &ndash March 5, 1815) was a German physician and astrologist who 1734)
• 1827 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. Year 1734 ( MDCCXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1827 ( MDCCCXXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common 1749)
• 1827 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (b. Year 1749 ( MDCCXLIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was a Lombard physicist known especially for the development of the first electric cell in 1745)
• 1829 - John Adams, last surviving HMS Bounty mutineer (b. Year 1745 ( MDCCXLV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a For the game see 1829 (board game. Year 1829 ( MDCCCXXIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display John Adams (1768?&ndash5 March 1829 was the last survivor of the ''Bounty'' mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in January 1790 the year after the mutiny 1766)
• 1849 - David Scott, Scottish painter (b. Year 1766 ( MDCCLXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1849 ( MDCCCXLIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common David Scott (October 1806 &ndash March 5, 1849) Scottish historical painter, brother of William Bell Scott, was born at Edinburgh 1806)
• 1876 - Marie d'Agoult, German-born writer (b. Year 1806 ( MDCCCVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, Vicomtesse de Flavigny ( December 31, 1805 - March 5, 1876) was a French author known also by her married 1805)
• 1893 - Hippolyte Taine, French historian (b. Year 1805 ( MDCCCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or Year 1893 ( MDCCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Hippolyte Adolphe Taine ( April 21, 1828 - March 5, 1893) was a French Critic and Historian. 1828
• 1895 - Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b. The year 1828 ( MDCCCXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (Николай Семёнович Лесков &mdash) was a Russian Journalist, Novelist and short story Writer 1831)
• 1895 - Henry Rawlinson, British soldier and scholar (b. Year 1831 ( MDCCCXXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson 1st Baronet (1810-1895 was born at Chadlington, Oxfordshire. 1810)
• 1903 - George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. Year 1810 ( MDCCCX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1903 ( MCMIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year starting Colonel George Francis Robert Henderson CB (1854-1903 was a British Soldier and Military Author. 1854)
• 1907 - Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (b. Year 1854 ( MDCCCLIV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Friedrich Blass ( January 22 1843 &ndash March 5 1907) was a German classical scholar from Osnabrück. 1843)
• 1925 - Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician (b. Year 1843 ( MDCCCXLIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Johan Ludwig William Valdemar Jensen, mostly known as Johan Jensen, ( May 8, 1859 – March 5, 1925) was a Danish Mathematician 1859)
• 1926 - Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (b. Year 1859 ( MDCCCLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Clément Ader ( April 2 1841 &ndash March 5 1925) was a French engineer born in Muret, Haute Garonne remembered 1841)
• 1927 - Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. For the game see 1841 (board game. Year 1841 ( MDCCCXLI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Franz Mertens ( March 20, 1840 - March 5, 1927) was a German Mathematician. 1840)
• 1929 - David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American automobile pioneer (b. Year 1840 ( MDCCCXL) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. for the New Zealand politician see David Buick (New Zealand David Dunbar Buick was a Scottish -born American Inventor 1854)
• 1931 - Fr. Year 1854 ( MDCCCLIV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist activities (b. Father Arthur Tooth SSC (1839–1931 a Ritualist and Clergyman in the Church of England, and a member of the Society of the Holy Cross The Society of the Holy Cross (SSC is an international Anglo-Catholic society of priests with members in the Anglican Communion, the Continuing Anglican Movement Anglicanism is a tradition of Christian faith Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs A cleric ( Ancient Greek κληρικός - klērikos clergyman (pl this article is on the Anglican church in particular See Orthopraxis for ritualism in general 1839)
• 1940 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. Year 1839 ( MDCCCXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 1868)
• 1944 - Max Jacob, French poet and writer (b. Year 1868 ( MDCCCLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Max Jacob ( July 12, 1876 &ndash March 5, 1944) was a French Poet, painter, Writer, and critic 1876)
• 1945 - Lena Baker, American murderer (b. Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Lena Baker ( June 8, 1901 &ndash March 5, 1945) was an African American maid who was executed for Murder by the State 1901)
• 1947 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Alfredo Casella ( Turin, July 25 1883 - Rome, March 5 1947) was an Italian Composer. 1883)
• 1953 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, (b. Year 1883 ( MDCCCLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Серге́й Серге́евич Проко́фьев Sergéj Sergéjevič Prokófjev) ( - 5 March 1953 was a Russian composer who Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending 1891)
• 1953 - Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. Year 1891 ( MDCCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Joseph Stalin ( ნამდვილი გვარი ჯუღაშვილი|Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili; March 5 1953 was General Secretary of the Communist Party Georgia ( საქართველო, Sakartvelo) is a Transcontinental country in the Caucasus region situated at the dividing line between 1879)
• 1953 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. Year 1879 ( MDCCCLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Herman Jacob Mankiewicz ( November 7, 1897 - March 5, 1953) was a Hollywood screenwriter noted for writing along with Orson 1897)
• 1955 - Antanas Merkys, President of Lithuania (b. Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Antanas Merkys ( born February 1, 1887 in, near Skapiškis, Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire; died March 5, The following is a list of rulers over Lithuania — grand dukes kings and presidents — the heads of authority over historical Lithuanian territory 1888)
• 1963 - Patsy Cline, American singer (b. Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Patsy Cline (b Virginia Patterson Hensley September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963) was an American Country 1932)
• 1963 - Cowboy Copas, American singer (b. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Lloyd Estel Copas ( July 15, 1913 &ndash March 5, 1963) better known by his stage name Cowboy Copas, was an American 1913)
• 1963 - Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer (b. Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Harold Franklin Hawkins ( December 22, 1921 &ndash March 5, 1963) better known by his stage name Hawkshaw Hawkins, was a Country 1921)
• 1965 - Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Chen Cheng ( Traditional Chinese: 陳誠 Simplified Chinese: 陈诚 Hanyu Pinyin: Chén Chéng ( January 4, 1897 - March 5 1897)
• 1965 - Pepper Martin, American baseball player (b. Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Johnny Leonard Roosevelt “Pepper” Martin ( Temple Oklahoma, February 29, 1904 &ndash McAlester Oklahoma, March 5, 1965 1904)
• 1966 - Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Anna Akhmatova (А́нна Ахма́това real name А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко ( — March 5 1966 was the Pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko 1889)
• 1967 - Georges Vanier, Governor General of Canada (b. Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Major-General Georges-Philéas Vanier DSO MC & Bar CD ( April 23, 1888 - March 5, 1967 The Governor General of Canada ( French: Gouverneure générale du Canada, or: Gouverneur général du Canada) is the vice-regal representative 1888)
• 1973 - Michael Jeffery, British music manager (b. Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Michael Jeffery (died 5 March 1973) was a music business manager of the 1960s who is best known for his management of British band The Animals and 1933)
• 1974 - Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Billy De Wolfe ( February 18, 1907 - March 5, 1974) was an American Character actor. 1907)
• 1974 - Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario (b. Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Sol Hurok ( Solomon Isiaevich Hurok; born Solomon Izrailevich Gurkov Russian Соломон Израилевич Гурков ( April 9, 1888 1888)
• 1977 - Tom Pryce, Welsh Formula One driver (b. Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Thomas Maldwyn Pryce (11 June 1949 &ndash 5 March 1977 was a British Racing driver from Ruthin, Wales. 1949)
• 1977 - Jansen Van Vuuren, Dutch volunteer safety marshall at the 1977 South African Grand Prix
• 1980 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The 1977 South African Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Kyalami on March 5, 1977. The 1977 South African Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Kyalami on March 5, 1977. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Jay Silverheels ( May 26, 1912 &ndash March 5, 1980) was a Canadian Mohawk Actor. 1912)
• 1980 - Winifred Wagner, German opera producer (b. Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Winifred Wagner ( June 23, 1897 - March 5, 1980) was an Englishwoman and wife of Siegfried Wagner, Richard Wagner 's son 1897)
• 1981 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Edgar Yipsel Harburg ( April 8 1896 – March 4 1981) best known as Yip Harburg, was an American Lyricist 1896)
• 1982 - John Belushi, American actor (b. Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) John Adam Belushi ( January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American Comedian, Actor and Musician 1949)
• 1984 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (b. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) Tito Gobbi ( October 24, 1913 &ndash March 5, 1984) was an Italian Baritone. 1915)
• 1984 - William Powell, American actor (b. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year William Horatio Powell ( July 29, 1892 – March 5, 1984) was a three-time Academy Award -nominated American actor noted 1892)
• 1988 - Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian (b. Year 1892 ( MDCCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Alberto Olmedo ( August 24, 1933 – March 5, 1988) was an Argentine comedian and actor 1933)
• 1990 - Gary Merrill, American film actor (b. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Gary F Merrill ( August 2, 1915 &ndash March 5, 1990) was an American film and television Character actor whose credits included 1915)
• 1993 - Cyril Collard, French author and filmmaker (b. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) This article is about the French author filmmaker composer and actor 1957)
• 1995 - Vivian Stanshall, English musician (Bonzo Dog Band) (b. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Vivian Stanshall (born Victor Anthony Stanshall, 21 March 1943 &ndash 5 March 1995) was an The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Band, The Bonzo Dog Dada Band and colloquially as " The Bonzos " are a band created by 1943)
• 1995 - Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer (b. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Gregg Hansford ( 4 April 1952 &ndash 5 March 1995) was an Australian motorcycle and touring car racer 1952)
• 1996 - Whit Bissell, American actor (b. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Whitner Nutting "Whit" Bissell ( 25 October, 1909 – 5 March 1996) was an American Character actor. 1909)
• 1997 - Samm Sinclair Baker, American diet author (b. Year 1909 ( MCMIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Samm Sinclair Baker (born in Paterson New Jersey, July 29, 1909 &ndash March 5, 1997) was the author/coauthor of many How-to 1909)
• 1999 - Richard Kiley, American actor (b. Year 1909 ( MCMIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Richard Paul Kiley ( March 31, 1922 &ndash March 5, 1999) was an American stage, Television, and Film 1922)
• 2000 - Lolo Ferrari, French pornographic actress (b. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Lolo Ferrari ( – March 5, 2000) was the Stage name of a French Dancer, Porn star, Actress, and Singer 1962)
• 2004 - Walt Gorney, American actor (b. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Walter Gorney ( April 12, 1912 &ndash March 5, 2004) was an American Actor. 1912)
• 2006 - Richard Kuklinski, American Mafia hit man (b. Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski ( April 11, 1935 &ndash March 5, 2006) was a convicted murderer and notorious Contract killer 1935)
• 2008 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American professor of computer science (b. Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Joseph Weizenbaum ( Berlin, January 8, 1923 – March 5, 2008) was a German-American author and professor emeritus of Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their 1923)

Holidays and observances

• Learn from Lei Feng Day in China. Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Lei Feng ( ( December 18, 1940 - August 15, 1962) was a soldier of the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National
• Approximate beginning of month of jīngzhé in Chinese calendar. Jīngzhé ( pīnyīn) or Keichitsu ( rōmaji) ( is the 3rd of 24 Solar terms (節氣 in the traditional The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, incorporating elements of a Lunar calendar with those of a Solar calendar.
• St Piran's Day - Cornwall's national day. St Piran's Day is the National day of the people of Cornwall, held on 5 March every year Cornwall ( Kernow ˈkɛɹnɔʊ is the most southwesterly county of England, on the Peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar
• Feast of St. Ciarán Saighir, patron of the Diocese of Ossory, in Irish calendar. Ciarán, Kieran, Kyran, Keiran, Kieren, or Kieron ( or, ˈkɪərən in English is an Irish personal name meaning 'Little The Diocese of Ossory is a Diocese in Ireland in the Ossory region established in the year AD 549. The Irish calendar does not observe the typical astronomical seasons (beginning in the Northern Hemisphere on the Equinoxes and Solstices, or the meteorological seasons
• Saint Theophile (d. Saint Theophilus (†195 was Bishop of Caesarea Palaestina. He is commemorated on 5 March. 195)
• Saint Olivia (d. Saint Olivia was according to legend the beautiful daughter of a noble Sicilian family 308)
• March 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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March 4 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - March 6 2006 Sunday of Forgiveness (see Paschal cycle)

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