About March 5
March 5, 2024 is the 65th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 301 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 330 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 5
- 1046 –Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
- 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.
- 1868 –Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala.
- 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 –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.
- 1933 –Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a “bank holiday”, closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
- 1943 –First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
- 1946 –Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1975 –First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
- 1979 –America’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
- 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.
- 1999 –Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
- 2003 –In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
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