About March 5
March 5, 2021 is the 64th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 301 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 333 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.
- 1046 –Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
- 1279 –The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- 1616 –Nicolaus Copernicus’s book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the catholic chuch
- 1766 –Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
- 1836 –Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
- 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.
- 1906 –Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
- 1944 –World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoşani Offensive in western Ukrainian SSR.
- 1946 –Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
- 1946 –Winston Churchill uses the phrase “Iron Curtain” in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
- 1960 –Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase, giving rise to the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis.
- 1965 –March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
- 1970 –The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
- 1975 –First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
- 1978 –The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
- 1979 –Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by “off the scale” gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
- 1988 –The Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
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