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
- 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
- 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.
- 1906 –Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
- 1912 –Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
- 1931 –The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
- 1933 –Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a “bank holiday”, closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
- 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.
- 1965 –March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
- 1966 –BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
- 1970 –The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
- 1974 –Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
- 1981 –The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
- 1984 –6,000 miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
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