About March 5
March 5, 2025 is the 64th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 301 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 349 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 5
- 1279 –The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- 1616 –Nicolaus Copernicus’s book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the catholic chuch
- 1766 –Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
- 1770 –Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by John Adams.
- 1824 –First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
- 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.
- 1868 –Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1946 –Winston Churchill uses the phrase “Iron Curtain” in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
- 1960 –Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase, giving rise to the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis.
- 1960 –Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
- 1974 –Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
- 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.
- 1979 –Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by “off the scale” gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
- 1982 –Soviet probes Venera 14 landed on Venus.
- 2003 –In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
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