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
- 1770 –Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by John Adams.
- 1824 –First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
- 1836 –Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
- 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.
- 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 –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.
- 1970 –The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
- 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.
- 1981 –The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
- 1982 –Soviet probes Venera 14 landed on Venus.
- 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.
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