About March 5
March 5, 2025 is the 64th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 301 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 349 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 5
- 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.
- 1496 –King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
- 1616 –Nicolaus Copernicus’s book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the catholic chuch
- 1824 –First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
- 1850 –The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
- 1860 –Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
- 1868 –Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala.
- 1872 –George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
- 1912 –Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
- 1933 –Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
- 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.
- 1946 –Winston Churchill uses the phrase “Iron Curtain” in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
- 1960 –Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
- 1965 –March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
- 1966 –BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
- 1974 –Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
- 1978 –The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
- 1984 –6,000 miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
- 1988 –The Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
- 1999 –Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
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