March 05

Monday 05, 2001:

In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

Tuesday 05, 1991:

Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners

Monday 05, 1979:

Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.

Tuesday 05, 1940:

Members of Soviet politbiuro sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POW, known also as Katyn massacre.

Monday 05, 1894:

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.