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Today in History ~ March 5
Events1461 - Henry VI deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses
1496 - English king Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore
1558 - Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes
1616 - Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index
1623 - 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia
1746 - Jacobin troops leave Aberdeen
1750 - 1st American Shakespearean production -- "altered" Richard III, NYC
1770 - Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a US Senator (Mississippi)
1770 - Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who'd been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people. Crispus Attucks becomes 1st black to die in American Revolution [H]
1783 - King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno
1807 - 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B
1820 - Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays
1836 - Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model
1845 - Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US
1849 - Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th president.
1856 - Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire
1865 - Confederate government orders every vessel to give half its freight capacity to government shipments
1868 - Arrigo Boito's opera "Mefistofele," premieres in Milan
1868 - Stapler patented in England by C H Gould
1868 - Senate was organized into a Court of Impeachment to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson.
1872 - George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains
1877 - Rutherford B Hayes inaugurated as 19th US president
1899 - 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Concerto in D
1912 - Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die
1917 - 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released
1922 - "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin
1923 - Montana & Nevada become 1st states to enact old age pension laws
1924 - Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM
1927 - 1,000 US marines land in China to "protect American property"
1931 - Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact
1933 - FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday
1933 - Germany's elections, Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party won nearly half the seats in the Reichstag, the German parliament. (43.9%-17.2M votes)
1934 - Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Tx)
1936 - Spitfire makes it's 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton)
1942 - Josip Broz "Tito" establishes 3rd Proletariat Brigade in Bosnia
1942 - Japanese troop march into Batavia
1943 - RAF bombs Essen Germany
1945 - Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands
1945 - US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne
1946 - Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri
1952 - Terence Rattigan's "Deep Blue Sea," premieres in London
1954 - "Girl in Pink Tights" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 115 performances
1956 - "King Kong," 1st televised
1957 - Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland
1960 - Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army [H]
1966 - 75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die
1969 - Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw," premieres in London
1970 - SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in NYC
1970 - A nuclear nonproliferation treaty went into effect after 43 nations ratified it.
1972 - Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party
1973 - Yankee pitchers Peterson & Kekich announce they swapped wives
1974 - "Candide" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 740 performances
1976 - The British pound fell below the equivalent of two dollars for the first time.
1977 - President Carter took questions from 42 telephone callers in 26 states on a network radio call-in program moderated by Walter Cronkite.
1979 - Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles)
1981 - US government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer
1984 - Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene
1984 - US accuse Iraq of using poison gas
1984 - The Standard Oil Co. of California, also known as Chevron, bought Gulf Corp. for more than $13 billion in the largest business merger in U.S. history. at that time.
1986 - In Lebanon, Members of a Islamic Jihad issued a statement saying they had "executed" French hostage Michel Seurat, who had been abducted almost a year earlier.
1991 - Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait. The Iraqis turned over 35 prisoners of war, including 15 Americans, to the Red Cross. An anti-Saddam Hussein uprising was reported sweeping city after city in Iraq. U.S. military officials predicted the unrest probably would lead to Hussein’s downfall. It didn't.
1992 - Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks
1992 - The trial of four Los Angeles police officers charged with beating motorist Rodney King opened in Simi Valley, Calif.
1993 - Canada's Ben Johnson, once called the world's fastest human, again tested positive for drugs and was banned for life from track competition.
1995 - Graves of murdered Czar Nicholas & family found in St Petersburg
1997 - Switzerland announced plans to establish a $4.7 billion government-financed fund, using interest from its gold reserves, to compensate survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and their descendants.
1997 - The Ohio River rose to its highest level in a generation, flooding the Louisville, Ky., area.
1997 - Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox and Willie Wells Sr. were elected to baseball's Hall of Fame.
1997 - North and South Korea met for the first time in 25 years to talk peace.
1998 - NASA announced that ice had been found at the Moon's north and south poles.
2000 - Israel's Cabinet voted unanimously to withdraw its troops from south Lebanon by the following July.
2000 - A Virginia subsidiary of PPL Therapeutics of Edinburgh, Scotland, the company that cloned Dolly the sheep, produced the first cloned pigs.
2001 - A 15-year-old boy, Charles "Andy" Williams, opened fire at a Santee, Calif., high school, killing two students and wounding 13 other people.
2001 - Vice President Dick Cheney underwent an angioplasty for a partially blocked artery after going to a hospital with chest pains.
2001 - A stampede broke out during the annual hajj pilgrimage in Mina, Saudi Arabia, killing 35 people.
Birthdays Today
1324 - David II Bruce, king of Scotland (1331-71)
1326 - Louis I, [the Great], King of Hungary (1342-82), Poland (1370-82)
1512 - Gerardus Mercator, Rupelmonde (Belgium), geographer/mapmaker
1574 - William Oughtred, England, mathematician/inventor (slide rule)
1637 - John van der Heyden, Dutch painter/inventor (fire extinguisher)
1658 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, French colonial governor of America
1668 - Francesco Gasparini, composer
1696 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian Rococo painter (Isaac's Sacrifice)
1824 - James Merritt Ives, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1828 - Johann Gungl, composer
1853 - Arthur W Foote, Salem Mass, organist/composer (Suite for Strings in E)
1870 - [B] Franc[lin] Norris, US, writer (McTeague, Octopus)
1887 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, composer (Salon Waltz)
1888 - Friedrich Schnack, German journalist/writer (Rosewood)
1893 - Emmett J Culligan, founder of water treatment organization
1897 - Mei-ling Soong, Madame Chiang Kai-shek
1899 - Patrick Hadley, composer
1908 - Rex (Reginald) Harrison (Academy Award-winning actor: My Fair Lady [1964], Cleopatra, Dr. Dolittle, The Agony and the Ecstacy)
1921 - Elmer Valo (baseball)
1922 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bologna Italy, director (Teorema, Pigsty)
1927 - Jack Cassidy (actor: The Eiger Sanction, The Andersonville Trial; Broadway's She Loves Me; David and Shaun's father; Shirley Jones' husband)
1928 - Lou Levy (pianist: band: Supersax; recorded with Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Nancy Wilson, Anita O'Day, etc.)
1930 - Del Crandall (baseball)
1930 - Lorin Maazel, Neuilly France, conductor (NBC Symphony Orch 1941)
1931 - Barry Tuckwell, Melbourne Aust, hornist (London Symph Orch 1955-68)
1935 - Earl Leggett (football)
1936 - Dale Douglass (golfer)
1936 - Dean Stockwell (actor: Gentlemen's Agreement, Dune, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Long Day's Journey into Night, Legend of Billie Jean)
1936 - Michael Landon (actor: Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven; director: The Loneliest Runner, Killing Stone; writer: Killing Stone, Sam's Son)
1937 - Fred "The Hammer" Williamson (football: Kansas City Chiefs CB: Super Bowl I; sportscaster: ABC's Monday Night Football)
1938 - James Wainwright (actor: The President's Plane is Missing, Joe Kidd)
1939 - Samantha Eggar (actress: Exterminator, Doctor Dolittle)
1945 - Norm Thompson (football)
1945 - Randy Matson (National Track & Field Hall of Famer: Olympic Silver Medalist: shot put [1964]; first to break the 70' barrier)
1946 - Rocky (Robert) Bleier (football: Pittsburgh Steelers Running Back: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV)
1947 - Eddie Hodges (singer, actor: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Hole in the Head, Live a Little Love a Little)
1950 - Charles Dudley (basketball)
1950 - Eugene Fodor, Turkey Creek CO, violinist (1974 Tchaikovsky Award)
1950 - Ron Climie (hockey)
1950 - Tom Sullivan (football)
1951 - Bob Richer (hockey)
1958 - Andy Gibb (singer: group: The Bee Gees; solo: Love is Thicker than Water, I Just Want to be Your Everything, Shadow Dancing, (Our Love) Don't Throw It all Away; host of TV's Solid Gold)
Famous deaths
1291 - Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated
1625 - James I (VI), king of England (1603-25)/poet/author, dies at 58
1732 - Joseph-Francois Salomon, composer, dies at 82
1778 - Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67
1815 - Franz Anton Mesmer, a German physician who pioneered the medical field of hypnotic therapy, dies in obscurity in Meersburg, Swabia (now Germany).* 1827 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (made 1st battery), dies at 82
1893 - Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian, dies at 64
1953 - Soviet Union announced that Josef Stalin, soviet leader responsible for 8-10M murders, died at 73 [H]
1953 - Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer, dies at 61
1963 - Patsy Cline, country singer (Crazy), dies in a plane crash at 30 Camden, Tenn. The crash also claimed the lives of "Cowboy" Copas and "Hawkshaw" Hawkins.
1967 - Mohammed H Mossadeq, premier of Persia (1951-53 -- ousted by CIA)), dies
1974 - Solomon I "Sol" Hurok, US impresario, dies at 85
1980 - Jay Silverheels, actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger), dies at 60
1980 - Winifred Wagner, daughter-in-law of Richard Wagnert and Bayreuth Wagner Festival organizer, dies at 82
1982 - Comedian John Belushi (Sat Night Live), was found dead of a drug overdose in a rented bungalow in Hollywood. He was 33
1984 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (Scarpia in Tosca), dies at 68
1986 - Teddy Hoad, cricketer (West Indian captain 1930), dies
1990 - Gloria Carter Spann, Pres Carter's sister, dies at 63 of cancer
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