About March 5

March 5, 2020 is the 65th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 301 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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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 344 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.
  • 1836 –
    Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1975 –
    First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
  • 1978 –
    The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
  • 1979 –
    America’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
  • 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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