March 5 It is the 64th day of the Gregorian year. 65th day in net years. There are 301 more days to the end of the year.
Today’s Events
363 – Roman Emperor Julian sets out from Antioch with 90,000 troops to attack the Sasanians. Julian died at this time.
1496 – King VII of England grants John Cabot and his sons the right to discover the unknown lands.
1616 – Published 73 years ago by Nicolaus Copernicus Rotation of the celestial spheres The book was declared a forbidden document by the Catholic Church.
1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans are shot dead after a riot between Americans and British soldiers in Boston. This led to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.
1793 – French forces are defeated by Austria.
1824 – First Anglo-Burmese War: Britain officially declares war on Burma.
1836 – Samuel Gould received a patent for the 34-caliber revolver.
1857 – The still-functioning bell tower (old lighthouse) at Colombo Fort is completed.[1]
1906 – Moro Rebellion: The U.S. Army deploys large numbers of troops to the Put Dajo area to quell a revolt by the daughter of the Moro tribe. Only six tribesmen survived these attacks.
1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes.
1931 – British Indian Empire: Gandhi-Irwin Pact signed.
1933 – Great Depression: US President Franklin Roosevelt declares a bank holiday, closing all banks and banning their financial transactions.
1933 – Hitler’s Nazi Party won 43.9% of the vote in the German elections.
1940 – The Gath Massacre: The Soviet High Commission under Joseph Stalin signs the execution of 25,700 Poles, including 14,700 Polish prisoners of war.
1942 – World War II: Spanish forces capture Batavia, the capital of the East Indies.
1946 – Cold War: Winston Churchill uses the term “Iron Curtain” in a speech at an event in Missouri.
1953 – Joseph Stalin, longtime leader of the Soviet Union, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Moscow.
1960 – Indonesian President Sukarno dissolves the 1955 parliament and announces a new parliament with members of his own choosing.
1964 – Emergency law came into effect in Sri Lanka.
1965 – Left-wing rebellion against the British colonialists in Bakurain.
1970 – The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was adopted by 43 countries and entered into force.
1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli soldiers [[சுயஸ் கால்வாய்|சூயசு கால்வாயின் மேற்குக் கரையில் இருந்து பின்வாங்கினர்.
1979 – சோவியத் விண்கலங்கள் வெனேரா 11, வெனேரா 12, மற்றும் செருமனிய-அமெரிக்க விண்கலம் ஈலியோசு II ஆகியவற்றை காமா கதிர் வெடிப்பு தாக்கியது.
1981 – ZX81 என்ற பிரித்தானிய வீட்டுக் கணினி அறிமுகப்படுத்தப்பட்டது. உலகம் முழுவதிலும் 1.5 மில்லியன் கணினிகள் விற்பனை செய்யப்பட்டன.
1982 – சோவியத்தின் வெனேரா 14 விண்கலம் வெள்ளிக் கோளில் தரையிறங்கியது.
1998 – இலங்கை தலைநகர் கொழும்பில் மருதானை பகுதியில் மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்ட பேருந்துக் குண்டுத் தாக்குதலில் 40 பேர் வரை கொல்லப்பட்டனர், 250 பேர் காயமடைந்தனர்.[2][3]
2003 – 17 Israeli civilians were killed in a suicide attack in Kaifa.
2008 – Member of Parliament of Sri Lanka Sivanesan was assassinated.
2012 – Madagascar Irina 75 people were killed when the tropical cyclone struck.
Today’s Birthdays
1512 – Gregory Mercator, Flemish mathematician, geographer, philosopher (d. 1594)
1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and Marxist philosopher (d. 1919)
1898 – Zhou Enlai, 1st Premier of China (d. 1976)
1913 – Gangubai, Hindutani music singer (d. 2009)
1916 – Biju Patnaik, Indian politician (d. 1997)
1931 – K. A. Subramaniam, Sri Lankan leftist politician (d. 1989)
1934 – Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American economist, Nobel laureate
1938 – Lynn Margulies, American biologist (d. 2011)
1956 – Sripriya, South Indian film actress
1958 – Nasser, South Indian film actor
1959 – Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
1976 – Selvaraghavan, South Indian film director
1984 – Arthi Aggarwal, Indian film actress (d. 2015)
Today’s Deaths
254 – Lucius I (father) (b. 200)
1827 – Pierre Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749)
1827 – Volta, Italian physicist (b. 1745)
1903 – Ousan-Anatole Themarche, French chemist (b. 1852)
1953 – Joseph Stalin, 2nd President of the Soviet Union (b. 1878)
1966 – Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet (b. 1889)
1994 – W. Ponnambalam, Sri Lankan left-wing politician, academic (b. 1930)
2006 – K. Shankar, South Indian film director, film producer (b. 1926)
2013 – M. Parvathinathasivam, Eelam poet, journalist, Tamil scholar (b. 1936)
2013 – Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
2013 – Rajasulosana, Tamil film actress (b. 1935)
2013 – K. B. A young, budding writer (b. 1936).
Today is a special day
Tree Day (Iran)