05 March History


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  • 1624    -    Class-based legislation is passed in the colony of Virginia, exempting the upper class from punishment by whipping.
  • 1766    -    Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
  • 1793    -    Austrian troops crush the French and recapture Liege.
  • 1821    -    James Monroe becomes the first president to be inaugurated on March 5, only because the 4th was a Sunday.
  • 1905    -    Russians begin to retreat from Mukden in Manchuria, China.
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  • 1912    -    The Italians become the first to use dirigibles for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance flights behind Turkish lines west of Tripoli.
  • 1918    -    The Soviets move the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow.
  • 1928    -    Hitler's National Socialists win the majority vote in Bavaria.
  • 1933    -    Newly inaugurated President Franklin D. Roosevelt halts the trading of gold and declares a bank holiday.
  • 1933    -    Hitler and Nationalist allies win the Reichstag majority. It will be the last free election in Germany until after World War II.
  • 1943    -    In desperation due to war losses, fifteen and sixteen year olds are called up for military service in the German army.
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  • 1946    -    In Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill tells a crowd that "an iron curtain has descended on the Continent [of Europe]."
  • 1956    -    The U.S. Supreme Court affirms the ban on segregation in public schools in Brown vs. Board of Education.
  • 1969    -    Gustav Heinemann is elected West German President.
  • 1976    -    Britain gives up on the Ulster talks and decides to retain rule in Northern Ireland indefinitely.
  • 1984    -    The U.S. Supreme Court rules that cities have the right to display the Nativity scene as part of their Christmas display.

  • 05 March Birthdays

  • 1326    -    Louis I (the Great), King of Hungary.
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  • 1574    -    William Oughtred, mathematician and inventor of the slide rule.
  • 1824    -    Elisha Harris, U.S. physician and founder of the American Public Health Association.
  • 1824    -    James Merritt Ives, lithographer for Currier and Ives.
  • 1853    -    Howard Pyle, writer and illustrator (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood).
  • 1870    -    Frank Norris, novelist (McTeague, The Octopus).
  • 1887    -    Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazillian composer.
  • 1938    -    Lynn Margulis, biologist.
  • 1948    -    Leslie Marmon Silko, writer (Ceremony).