March 05

Wednesday 05, 2003:

Nature withdraws several papers as a result of the Jan Hendrik Schön scandal.

Tuesday 05, 2002:

MTV begins airing The Osbournes.

Monday 05, 2001:

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

Friday 05, 1999:

Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.

Thursday 05, 1998:

NASA announces the choice of United States Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins as the first woman commander of a space shuttle mission.

Friday 05, 1993:

Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is banned from international competition for life after testing positive for banned substances for the second time.

Tuesday 05, 1991:

Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners

Saturday 05, 1988:

Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands restored and revised.

Tuesday 05, 1985:

The body of undercover DEA agent Enrique Camarena is found.

Saturday 05, 1983:

Bob Hawke becomes Australian prime minister after defeating Malcolm Fraser in Australian elections.

Friday 05, 1982:

Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus.

Thursday 05, 1981:

Cannibal Alferd Packer pardoned posthumously.

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.

Sunday 05, 1978:

Landsat 3 is launched.

Tuesday 05, 1974:

Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdrew from the west bank of the Suez Canal.

Monday 05, 1973:

Donald DeFreeze, future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.

Friday 05, 1971:

First live performance of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."

Thursday 05, 1970:

1970 - Dubnium atoms first detected conclusively.

Saturday 05, 1966:

In Luxembourg, Udo Jürgens wins the eleventh Eurovision Song Contest for Austria.

Tuesday 05, 1963:

Country singer Patsy Cline dies in a plane crash.

Saturday 05, 1960:

Elvis Presley is discharged from the United States Army.

Wednesday 05, 1958:

1958 - Explorer 2 spacecraft launches.

Monday 05, 1956:

Ernie Terrell becomes the WBA world heavyweight champion, beating Eddie Machen.

Saturday 05, 1955:

President of Lithuania, Antanas Merkys dies, after having been imprisoned and deported to the Soviet Union.

Tuesday 05, 1946:

Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.

Friday 05, 1943:

First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in Britain.

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.

Thursday 05, 1936:

First flight of fighter airplane Spitfire Type 300.

Sunday 05, 1933:

In Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.

Thursday 05, 1931:

Daniel Salamanca Urey is named President of Bolivia.

Tuesday 05, 1929:

LanChile airline begins operations.

Wednesday 05, 1924:

Shefqet Verlaci becomes Prime Minister of Albania.

Tuesday 05, 1918:

Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.

Monday 05, 1917:

Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.

Sunday 05, 1916:

Spanish football club Real Club Deportivo Mallorca founded.

Friday 05, 1915:

World War I: LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.

Tuesday 05, 1912:

Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.

Tuesday 05, 1907:

The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.

Sunday 05, 1905:

Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.

Saturday 05, 1904:

Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of ball lightning formation.

Monday 05, 1894:

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

Monday 05, 1877:

Rutherford B. Hayes is publicly inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (he was privately inaugurated on March 3).

Tuesday 05, 1872:

George Westinghouse patents the air brake.

Thursday 05, 1868:

Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito premieres at La Scala.

Tuesday 05, 1861:

Montgomery Blair is named 23rd Postmaster General of the United States by Abraham Lincoln

Monday 05, 1860:

Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referenda to join Kingdom of Sardinia.

Monday 05, 1849:

Zachary Taylor is inaugurated as the 12th President of the United States.

Sunday 05, 1848:

Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance.

Saturday 05, 1842:

Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.

Saturday 05, 1836:

Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber).

Friday 05, 1824:

First Burmese War: The British officially declares war on Burma.

Monday 05, 1821:

James Monroe is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.

Tuesday 05, 1793:

French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured.

Friday 05, 1784:

Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade.

Monday 05, 1770:

Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are killed by British troops in an event that would help start the American Revolutionary War five years later.

Wednesday 05, 1766:

Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.

Saturday 05, 1689:

Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department.

Thursday 05, 1046:

Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he would later describe in his book Safarnameh.

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