March 5
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March 5
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March is:
American Red Cross Month
Bible Women Awareness Month
Ethics Awareness Month
March 5 is:
International Day of the Seal - A Congressional resolution founded this day to draw attention to the cruelty of seal hunts. Always celebrated on the first Sunday in March. Sponsor: Friends of the National Zoo.
Crispus Attucks Day - Crispus Attacks was the first person to be killed during the Boston Massacre ( 1770). Crispus was possibly a runaway slave.
Festival of Tobacco - In 1558, smoking tobacco was introduced in Europe by Francisco
Fernandes, a Spanish physician. Sponsor: A Pilgrim's Almanac.
Born on this Day
1324: David II, King of Scotland
1326: Louis I (the Great), king of Hungary & Poland
1512: Flemish map maker Gerhardus Mercator
1574: William Oughtred, Eng. mathematician, an inventor of the slide
rule
1854: The music critic Philip Hale was born in Vermont.
1658: Antoine Cadillac, founder of Detroit
1908: Actor Rex (Reginald) Harrison (My Fair Lady, Cleopatra, Dr.
Dolittle, The Agony and the Ecstacy)
1927: Actor Jack Cassidy (The Eiger Sanction, The Andersonville Trial;
Broadway's She Loves Me)
1922: Actor James Noble
1934: Actor James B. Sikking
1936: Actor Dean Stockwell (Gentlemen's Agreement, Dune, Beverly Hills
Cop 2, Long Day's Journey into Night, Legend of Billie Jean)
1936: Actor Michael Landon (Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie,
Highway to Heaven; director: The Loneliest Runner, Killing Stone)
1938: Actor Fred Williamson
1939: Actress Samantha Eggar
1944: Actor Paul Sand
1946: Actor Michael Warren
1947: Actor Eddie Hodges
1948: Singer Eddy Grant
1950: Violinist Eugene Fodor
1952: Rock musician Alan Clark (Dire Straits)
1954: Actress-comedian Marsha Warfield
1955: Magician Penn Jillette
1958: Singer Andy Gibb (Group: The Bee Gees)
1962: Rock singer Charlie Reid
1962: Rock singer Craig Reid
1970: Rock musician John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1970: Singer Rome
1974: Actor Kevin Connolly ("Unhappily Ever After")
1975: Model Niki Taylor.
1989: Actor Jake Lloyd ("Jingle All the Way")
0475: Death of St. Gerasimus, who drew a thorn
from the paw of a lion
1179: 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical
council) opens in Rome
1380: Construction begins on St.Mary's
College, Oxford, England
1432: Treaty of Rennes between France and
Brittany
1496: England's Henry VII commissions John
& Sebastian Cabot to discover new lands
1534: Death of Correggio
1590: Tycho Brahe discovers a comet in Pisces
1616: Copernicus's "De Revolutionibus"
is placed on Catholic Index of Forbidden Books
1623: 1st American temperance law enacted,
Virginia
1624: The upper classes of Virginia are
exempted from whipping
1629: King Charles I of England imprisons Sir
John Eliot & 8 other MPs
1638: France and Sweden sign a pact in Hamburg
1640: Short Parliament dissolved
1750: The first Shakespearean play in America
was presented at the Nassau Street Theatre in New York City. The play
enjoyed by the audience was the famous "King Richard III".
1775: Five American colonists were killed
toady by British troops during the Boston Massacre.
1766: Spanish official Don Antonio de Ulloa
arrived in New Orleans to take possession of the Louisiana Territory from
the French.
1766: Werner, the senior Kapellmeister in the
Esterhazy court, died leaving Haydn the sole artistic director. This meant
he had control over a fairly good chamber orchestra, which would play
whatever he wrote for it.
1770: British troops killed five colonials in
the so-called "Boston Massacre," one of the events that led to the
American Revolution.
1821: James Monroe became the first President
of the United States to be inaugurated on March 5th. The usual inauguration
date of March 4th fell on a Sunday that year and a President cannot be
inaugurated on the Sabbath. It's still the law, even though the Inauguration
Day was officially set back to January 20th (Sundays are not included).
1836: Samuel Colt manufactured the first
pistol – a .34-caliber "Texas" model.
1867: An abortive Fenian uprising against
English rule took place in Ireland.
1868: The Senate was organized into a Court of
Impeachment to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson.
1872: George Westinghouse, of "You can be
sure if it's Westinghouse" fame, patented the air brake. They were, and
remain, especially important to trains, big trucks, buses and amusement park
rides.
1923: Old-age pension laws were enacted in the
states of Montana and Nevada.
1933: In the German parliamentary elections,
the Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote, enabling it to join with the
Nationalists to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.
1946: Winston Churchill delivered his famous
"Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain
has descended across the Continent."
1953: After 29 years in power, Soviet dictator
Joseph Stalin at the age of 73.
1953: Serge Prokofiev died just a couple weeks
before his 62nd birthday. Prokofiev lived long enough to see Soviet
authorities, the same authorities who had reprimanded him for being too
modern, hail him as a hero of the Soviet people.
1960: Elvis Presley returned to civilian life
after a two-year hitch in the U.S. Army.
1963: Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hankshaw
Hawkins were killed in a plane crash at Camden, Tennessee. The famous
country music stars were returning from a benefit performance.
1970: A nuclear non-proliferation treaty went
into effect after 43 nations ratified it.
1976: The British pound fell below the
equivalent of two dollars for the first time.
1977: President Carter took questions from 42
telephone callers in 26 states on a network radio call-in program moderated
by Walter Cronkite.
1982: comedian John Belushi was found dead of
a drug overdose in a rented bungalow in Hollywood; he was 33.
1984: The Standard Oil Co. of California, also
known as Chevron, bought Gulf Corp. for more than $13 billion in the largest
business merger in U.S. history.
1987: President Reagan called on Congress to
approve the final installment of a 100 (M) million-dollar aid package for
Nicaraguan Contra rebels.
1988: Vice President George Bush won the South
Carolina Republican primary, with Kansas Senator Bob Dole running a distant
second, followed by Pat Robertson and New York Congressman Jack Kemp.
1989: Machinists striking Eastern Airlines
withdrew an immediate threat to picket the nation's railroads, after a
federal judge issued an order tem orarily prohibiting rail workers from
honoring the Eastern picket lines.
1990: To the cheers of onlookers, workers in
Bucharest, Romania, finally succeeded in removing a 25-foot, seven-ton
bronze statue of Vladimir Lenin from its foundation.
1991: Rebellions against Saddam Hussein are
reported in southeastern Iraq.
1991: Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait.
1991: The Iraqis turned over 35 prisoners of war, including 15 Americans, to the Red Cross.
1992: Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey dropped out
of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The trial of four
Los Angeles police officers charged with beating motorist Rodney King opened
in Simi Valley, California.
1993: The White House sought new ways to
inflict what a spokesman called "real pain and real price" on Serb
aggressors in Bosnia by tightening the UN blockade on supplies and money to
the region.
1994: A jury in Pensacola, Florida, convicted
anti-abortion a tivist Michael F. Griffin of first-degree murder in the
shooting death of Dr. David Gunn; Griffin was sentenced to life in prison.
1994: White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum
resigned in the wake of turmoil over the Clinton administration's handling
of questions related to Whitewater.
1995: An Australian yacht broke in two and
sank in heavy wind and fierce winds off the Southern California coast, the
first sinking in the history of America's Cup racing; all 17 crew members
were rescued.
1996: Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole swept
the "Junior Tuesday" primaries.
1996: Representative Enid Greene Waldholtz
(Republican, Utah), tangled in a financial mess that she blamed on her
estranged husband, announced she would not seek a second term. 83
1997: The Ohio River rose to its highest level
in a generation, flooding the Louisville, Kentucky, area.
1997: Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox and Willie
Wells Senior were elected to baseball's Hall of Fame.
1997: North and South Korea met for first time
in 25 years to talk peace.
1998: Details of President Clinton's
deposition testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case against him
were published in The Washington Post, prompting an angry denunciation from
the president for the news leak.
1998: Lewinsky's lawyer William Ginsburg
showed up at the courthouse where the probe was unfolding to argue his
24-year-old client should be immune from prosecution in return for her
cooperation.
1998: NASA scientists said enough water is
frozen in the loose soil of the moon to support a lunar base and perhaps to
one day build a human colony there. Dr Alan Binder, the mission's principal
investigator said the spacecraft had detected "the kind of data
signature one would expect to find if water ice is present."
1998: Serbian police killed 20 ethnic
Albanians in a new assault on separatist rebels as Yugoslavia's president
warned the West of his determination to crush "terrorism" in the
violence-torn province of Kosovo. Albanian refugees said the Serbian forces
were backed by armored vehicles and attack helicopters.
1998: Pakistani officials announced that at
least 300 people were killed by flash floods in a remote southwestern region
earlier in the week and more than 1,500 were still missing. They said 175
bodies were recovered from Turbat district but they had confirmed reports of
about 300 deaths. Army and navy helicopters were evacuating stranded people
and dropping food for the sufferers of the floods, which also made some
25,000 people homeless.
1999: Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema
met at the White House with President Clinton, a day after a military jury
in North Carolina acquitted a Marine pilot in the Italian cable car accident
that killed 20 people; D'Alema demanded justice, while Clinton expressed
profound regret.
1999: Actor Richard Kiley died in Warwick,
N.Y., at age 76.
2000: A Virginia subsidiary of PPL Therapeutics of Edinburgh, Scotland, the company that cloned Dolly the sheep, produced the first cloned
pigs.
2000: Israel's Cabinet voted unanimously to withdraw its troops from south Lebanon by the following July.
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