SomeFacts | March 5

On this day - March 5

363 — Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to ...

1046 — Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey ...

1279 — The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by ...

1496 — King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot ...

1616 — Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the ...

1766 — Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, ...

1770 — Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, ...

1811 — Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal ...

1824 — First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on ...

1825 — Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, ...

1836 — Samuel Colt established his first factory to produce recently ...

1850 — The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the ...

1860 — Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join ...

1868 — Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito, receives its premiere ...

1872 — George Westinghouse patents the air brake.

1906 — Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming ...

1912 — Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use ...

1931 — The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.

1933 — Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag ...

1939 — Spanish Civil War: The National Defence Council seizes control ...

1940 — Six high-ranking members of the Soviet politburo, including ...

1942 — World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of ...

1943 — World War II: General strike and protest march in Athens ...

1944 — World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani offensive ...

1946 — Cold War: Winston Churchill delivers his famous "Iron ...

1953 — Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, ...

1957 — Sutton Wick air crash a Blackburn Beverley of 53 Squadron, ...

1960 — Indonesian President Sukarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan ...

1963 — Aeroflot Flight 191 crashes while landing at Aşgabat ...

1963 — American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, ...

1965 — March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against ...

1966 — BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in ...

1967 — Lake Central Airlines Flight 527 crashes near Marseilles, ...

1968 — Air France Flight 212 crashes into La Grande Soufrière, ...

1970 — The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes ...

1973 — An Iberia McDonnell Douglas DC-9 collide in mid-air with a ...

1974 — Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of ...

1978 — The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ...

1979 — Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American ...

1981 — The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by ...

1982 — Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus.

1991 — Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 109 crashes in Venezuela, ...

1993 — Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301 crashes at Skopje ...

2001 — In Mina, Saudi Arabia, 35 pilgrims are killed in a stampede on ...

2002 — An earthquake in Mindanao, Philippines, kills 15 people and ...

2003 — In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 ...

2011 — An Antonov An-148 crashes in Russia's Alexeyevsky ...

2012 — Two people are killed and six more are injured in a shooting ...

2012 — Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through ...

2018 — Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pause the ...

2021 — Twenty people are killed and 30 injured in a suicide car ...

2021 — Pope Francis begins a historical visit to Iraq amidst the ...

2023 — A group of four prisoners escape from the Nouakchott Civil ...

2023 — The 2023 Estonian parliamentary election is held, with two ...