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Events on the 5th of March in history

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05 Mar 0363 Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
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05 Mar 1046 Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
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05 Mar 1179 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
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05 Mar 1279 The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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05 Mar 1461 Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses
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05 Mar 1496 English King Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore
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05 Mar 1496 King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
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05 Mar 1528 Utrecht Governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague
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05 Mar 1558 Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes
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05 Mar 1579 Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht
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05 Mar 1616 Nicolaus Copernicus's book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Catholic Church
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05 Mar 1623 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia
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05 Mar 1651 South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm
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05 Mar 1684 Emperor Leopold I, Poland and Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz
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05 Mar 1743 1st US religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston
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05 Mar 1746 Jakobijnse troops leave Aberdeen
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05 Mar 1750 1st American Shakespearean production-"altered" Richard III, New York City
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05 Mar 1760 Princess Carolina marries General Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg
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05 Mar 1766 Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French
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05 Mar 1766 Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
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05 Mar 1770 Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a US Senator (Mississippi)
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05 Mar 1770 Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom
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05 Mar 1770 Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot 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.
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05 Mar 1783 King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno
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05 Mar 1795 Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution
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05 Mar 1795 Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France
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05 Mar 1811 Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cádiz in the Battle of Barrosa.
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05 Mar 1820 Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays
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05 Mar 1821 Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun
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05 Mar 1824 First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
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05 Mar 1836 Mexico attacks Alamo
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05 Mar 1836 Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model
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05 Mar 1836 Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
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05 Mar 1845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US
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05 Mar 1849 Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th President
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05 Mar 1850 The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
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05 Mar 1856 Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire
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05 Mar 1856 Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads
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05 Mar 1860 Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
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05 Mar 1862 Union troops under Brigadier General Wright occupy Fernandina Florida
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05 Mar 1864 1st track meet between Oxford and Cambridge
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05 Mar 1868 Stapler patented in England by C H Gould
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05 Mar 1868 US Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson
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05 Mar 1868 Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala.
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05 Mar 1872 George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains
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05 Mar 1872 George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
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05 Mar 1877 Rutherford B Hayes inaugurated as 19th US President
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05 Mar 1894 Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in US
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05 Mar 1896 Italian Premier Crispi resigns
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05 Mar 1896 Italians Governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reaches Massawa
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05 Mar 1897 American Negro Academy forms
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05 Mar 1900 American Hall of Fame found
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05 Mar 1903 Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn
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05 Mar 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.
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05 Mar 1907 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired
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05 Mar 1908 1st ascent of Mt Erebus, Antarctica
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05 Mar 1910 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1
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05 Mar 1912 Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die
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05 Mar 1912 Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
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05 Mar 1917 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released
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05 Mar 1922 "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin
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05 Mar 1923 1st old age pension plans in US established by Montana and Nevada
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05 Mar 1923 Montana and Nevada become 1st states to enact old age pension laws
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05 Mar 1924 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM
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05 Mar 1924 Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games
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05 Mar 1924 King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief
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05 Mar 1927 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property
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05 Mar 1931 Gandhi and British Viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact
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05 Mar 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.
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05 Mar 1933 FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday
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05 Mar 1933 Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
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05 Mar 1933 Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
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05 Mar 1935 1st premature baby health law in US (Chicago)
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05 Mar 1936 First flight of Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
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05 Mar 1940 Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including General Secretary Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
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05 Mar 1942 Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
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05 Mar 1942 Japanese troop march into Batavia
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05 Mar 1943 Anti fascist strikes in Italy
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05 Mar 1943 RAF bombs Essen Germany
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05 Mar 1943 First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
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05 Mar 1944 World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
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05 Mar 1945 Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands
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05 Mar 1945 Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Patch meet in Luneville
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05 Mar 1945 US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne
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05 Mar 1945 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
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05 Mar 1946 Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
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05 Mar 1946 Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
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05 Mar 1948 Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson
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05 Mar 1948 US rocket flies record 4800 km/h to 126k height
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05 Mar 1954 "Girl in Pink Tights" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 115 performances
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05 Mar 1955 WBBJ TV channel 7 in Jackson, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
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05 Mar 1956 "King Kong, " 1st televised
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05 Mar 1956 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
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05 Mar 1957 Sgt Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvis Pelvin)
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05 Mar 1958 Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit
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05 Mar 1958 KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
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05 Mar 1959 Iran and US sign economic and military treaty
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05 Mar 1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army
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05 Mar 1960 Ice Dance Championship at Vancouver won by Denny and Jones (GRB)
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05 Mar 1960 Ice Pairs Championship at Vancouver won by Wagner and Paul (CAN)
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05 Mar 1960 Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champions in Vancouver won by Carol E Heiss (USA)
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05 Mar 1960 Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
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05 Mar 1963 Beatles record "From Me to You" and"Thank You Girl"
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05 Mar 1964 Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr, announces a baseball team is moving there
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05 Mar 1964 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest
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05 Mar 1965 Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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05 Mar 1965 March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
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05 Mar 1966 75 mph air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die
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05 Mar 1966 Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record
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05 Mar 1966 BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
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05 Mar 1967 WEDN TV channel 53 in Norwich, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
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05 Mar 1968 US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun
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05 Mar 1969 Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris
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05 Mar 1969 Gustav Heinemann elected President of West-Germany
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05 Mar 1970 Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St, New York City
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05 Mar 1970 Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect
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05 Mar 1970 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St. in New York City
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05 Mar 1970 The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
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05 Mar 1972 Greek Composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party
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05 Mar 1973 Yankee pitchers Peterson and Kekich announce they swapped wives
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05 Mar 1974 "Candide" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 740 performances
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05 Mar 1974 Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot
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05 Mar 1974 Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
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05 Mar 1975 First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
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05 Mar 1978 "Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 152 performances
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05 Mar 1978 Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California
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05 Mar 1978 The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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05 Mar 1979 America's Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
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05 Mar 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.
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05 Mar 1980 Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49
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05 Mar 1981 "Bring Back Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 4 performances
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05 Mar 1981 Ice Dance Championship at Hartford won by Jayne Torvill and C Dean (GRB)
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05 Mar 1981 Ice Pairs Champ at Hartford won by Irina Vorobieva and I Lisovski (URS)
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05 Mar 1981 US government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer
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05 Mar 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.
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05 Mar 1982 Gaylord Perry (with 297 wins) signs with Seattle Mariners
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05 Mar 1982 Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus.
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05 Mar 1983 Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (Cons)
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05 Mar 1983 New South Wales beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield
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05 Mar 1984 Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene
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05 Mar 1984 US accuse Iraq of using poison gas
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05 Mar 1984 Six thousand miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
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05 Mar 1985 New York Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons
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05 Mar 1989 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000
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05 Mar 1989 Blains McCallister wins Honda Golf Classic shooting 266
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05 Mar 1989 Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 m indoor (8:33.82)
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05 Mar 1991 Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait
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05 Mar 1991 Reggie Miller (Indiana) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games
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05 Mar 1992 Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks
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05 Mar 1993 Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery
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05 Mar 1993 Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die
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05 Mar 1993 Former Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi
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05 Mar 1993 Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game
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05 Mar 1994 Dottie Mochrie wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Championship
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05 Mar 1994 Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa)
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05 Mar 1994 PBA National Championship won by David Traber
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05 Mar 1994 Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop
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05 Mar 1995 Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election
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05 Mar 1995 Graves of Czar Nicholas and family found in St. Petersburg
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05 Mar 1995 Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26)
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05 Mar 1996 Earl Weaver and Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame
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05 Mar 1997 Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox and Willie Wells for Hall of Fame
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05 Mar 1998 Mariah Carey divorces Tommy Lee Jones
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05 Mar 2003 In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.
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05 Mar 2012 At least two people are killed and six injured after a shooting in a hair salon in Bucharest, Romania.
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05 Mar 2012 Invisible Children launches the Stop Kony campaign with the release of Kony 2012.
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