What happened
on March 5th? |
475 |
Death of St Gerasimus, who drew a thorn from the paw of a lion. |
| 1496 |
English seafarer John CABOT (Giovanni CABOTO) takes
out the Royal patent for research of America |
1512 |
Gerardus Mercator, (Belgium) geographer/mapmaker,
is born. |
| 1534 |
Italian artist Correggio died after falling into a tank of white-out fluid that he was using to correct a painting. |
1574 |
William Oughtred, England, mathematician/inventor
(slide rule) is born. |
1616 |
Copernicus' de Revolutionibus placed
on Catholic Forbidden index. |
1623 |
Virginia enacts 1st American temperance
law. |
| 1705 |
Peter I published the Decree about the formation of a regular
army in Russia. |
1711 |
A decree by Peter I founded the Senate–the higher Russian
state structure for legislation and government affairs. |
1770 |
Boston Massacre: British troops kill 5 in
crowd. |
1836 |
Mexico attacks Alamo. Samuel Colt manufactures
1st pistol, 34-caliber Texas model. |
1845 |
Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels
to western US. |
| 1871 |
Birthday of Rose Luxembourg, the foundress of Communist Party
of Germany. |
1933 |
Don L. Anderson is born. Roosevelt proclaims
10-day bank holiday. |
1936 |
Spitfire makes its 1st flight (England). |
1942 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony premieres
in Siberia. |
1946 |
Winston Churchill makes “Iron Curtain”
speech (Missouri). |
1949 |
Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class
cricket, hits 30. |
1953 |
Joseph Stalin dies.
Composer Sergey Prokofiev dies.
|
1955 |
Elvis Presley makes 1st TV appearance on
“Louisiana Hayride” show. |
1956 |
“King Kong” televised for the
first time. |
1970 |
Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into
effect. |
1973 |
Yankee pitchers Peterson and Kekich announce
they swapped wives. |
1982 |
Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus
sends back data. |
1994 |
South Africans make the largest milkshake
(1,955 gallons of chocolate). |
| 2003 |
www.MantlePlumes.org founded |
| 2016 |
Don L. Anderson would have been 83. |
