What are the important events that happened on March 5? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 5: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 5 is the 65th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 301 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 21, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,493,280 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexacontapentagon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac 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 330 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,092 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 5 Historical Events
- 1906 –Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
- 1944 –World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoşani Offensive in western Ukrainian SSR.
- 1946 –Winston Churchill uses the phrase “Iron Curtain” in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
- 1965 –March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
- 1966 –BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
- 1974 –Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
- 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.
- 1981 –The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
- 1982 –Soviet probes Venera 14 landed on Venus.
Who were born on March 5?
- 1658 –Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)
- 1739 –Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American physican and statesman (d. 1819)
- 1836 –Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
- 1871 –Rosa Luxemburg, Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)
- 1959 –David Fury, American television writer and producer
- 1971 –Filip Meirhaeghe, Belgian mountainbiker
- 1981 –Andreas Wiig, Norwegian snowboarder
- 1984 –Ryan Crowley, Australian rules footballer
- 1988 –Bjarni Viðarsson, Icelandic footballer
- 1988 –Trevor Carson, Northern Irish footballer
Who died on March 5?
- 1611 –Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
- 1776 –Yeongjo of Joseon of Korea (b. 1694)
- 1893 –Hippolyte Taine, French historian (b. 1828)
- 1895 –Henry Rawlinson, British soldier and scholar (b. 1810)
- 1895 –Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b. 1831)
- 1904 –John Lowther du Plat Taylor, British Army officer (b. 1829)
- 1995 –Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer (b. 1952)
- 1995 –Vivian Stanshall, English musician (Bonzo Dog Band) (b. 1943)
- 1996 –Whit Bissell, American actor (b. 1909)
- 1999 –Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
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