Today in History
5th March
James Madison
Thomas Arne
Alessandro Giuseppe Volta
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| 1133 Henry II, the first Plantagenet king of England, was born in France. | ||
| 1179 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome | ||
| 1461 Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses |
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| 1496 English King Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore | ||
| 1528 Utrecht governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague | ||
| 1534 Antonio Allegri da Correggio, Italian Renaissance painter, died. | ||
| 1558 Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes | ||
| 1579 Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht | ||
| 1616 Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index | ||
| 1623 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia | ||
| 1651 South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm | ||
| 1684 Emperor Leopold I, Poland & Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz | ||
| 1743 1st US religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston | ||
| 1746 Jakobijnse troops leave Aberdeen | ||
| 1751 James Madison, fourth president of the United States, was born. He sponsored the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. | James Madison |
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| 1760 Princess Carolina marries Gen Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg | ||
| 1766 Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French | ||
| 1770 the "Boston massacre" occurred when five people were killed after British troops opened fire on a crowd. | ||
| 1778 Thomas Arne, English composer of "Rule, Britannia," died. | ||
| 1783 King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno | ||
| 1790 Flora Macdonald, Scottish Jacobite heroine, died. In 1746 she helped Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Stuart claimant to the British throne, escape from the Hebridean island of Benbecula. | ||
| 1795 Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution | ||
| 1795 Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France | ||
| 1807 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B | ||
| 1815 Franz Anton Mesmer, German physician, died; mesmerism, a method of producing a trance or sleep, was named after him. | ||
| 1820 Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays | ||
| 1821 Monroe is 1st pres inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun | ||
| 1827 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Volta, Italian inventor of the first electric battery, died. |
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| 1836 Mexico attacks Alamo | ||
| 1849 Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th president | ||
| 1856 In London, the Covent Garden theater was destroyed by fire. | ||
| 1856 Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads | ||
| 1862 Union troops under brig-gen Wright occupy Fernandina Florida | ||
| 1867 In Ireland, a Fenian rising took place at Kilmallock when 14 police fought off over 200 armed Fenians. | ||
| 1868 Arrigo Boito's opera "Mefistofele," premieres in Milan | ||
| 1868 Stapler patented in England by C H Gould | ||
| 1868 US Senate organizes to decide charges against Pres Andrew Johnson | ||
| 1872 George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains | ||
| 1894 Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in US | ||
| 1896 Italian premier Crispi resigns | ||
| 1896 Italians governor of Eritrea, Gen Baldissera, reaches Massawa | Thomas Arne |
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| 1897 American Negro Academy forms | ||
| 1900 American Hall of Fame found | ||
| 1903 Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn | ||
| 1908 1st ascent of Mt Erebus, Antarctica | ||
| 1912 Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die | ||
| 1916 The Spanish liner Principe de Asturias struck a rock off the coast of Brazil and sank in minutes, killing 445 people out of the 588 aboard. | ||
| 1920 Norway was admitted to the League of Nations. | ||
| 1924 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM | ||
| 1924 King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief | ||
| 1927 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property | ||
| 1931 Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact | ||
| 1933 Election returns in Germany gave the Nazis and their allies 52 percent of seats in the Reichstag. | ||
| 1936 The new Spitfire fighter plane went on show for the first time in Southampton, England. |
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| 1942 Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia | ||
| 1942 Japanese troop march into Batavia | ||
| 1943 Anti fascist strikes in Italy | ||
| 1943 RAF bombs Essen Germany | ||
| 1945 In World War II an advance force of the U.S. 1st Army entered Cologne. On the same day, German boys born in 1929 were required to enroll in the regular armed forces. | ||
| 1945 Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands | ||
| 1946 In a speech at Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill said: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent." | ||
| 1953 Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) died after three decades in power. | ||
| 1953 Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, died. Best known for his orchestral fairy tale "Peter and the Wolf" and for his filmscores "Alexander Nevsky" and "Ivan the Terrible." | Alessandro Giuseppe Volta |
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| 1957 Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland | ||
| 1959 Iran & US sign economic & military treaty | ||
| 1969 Gustav Heinemann became West German president in succession to Heinrich Lubke. | ||
| 1970 The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty came into force with 45 countries, including the three main nuclear powers, having signed the agreement. | ||
| 1977 In the United States, President Carter answered questions from listeners over 26 states in the first presidential phone-in to be broadcast. | ||
| 1980 In Rhodesia, Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo agreed to form a coalition government. | ||
| 1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data | ||
| 1983 The Australian Labor Party, headed by Robert Hawke, was swept into power, beating the Liberals of Malcolm Fraser. | ||
| 1984 William Powell, American film actor, died; he was best known for his roles in "The Thin Man," "My Man Godfrey" and "Life With Father." | ||
| 1984 US accuse Iraq of using poison gas | ||
| 1984 Tito Gobbi, Italian operatic baritone, died; he was famed for his role as "Scarpia" in Puccini's "Tosca." | ||
| 1989 Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. decided to merge into a world-leading media and entertainment giant. | ||
| 1990 Hortensia Bussi, widow of Marxist former President Salvador Allende, returned to Chile from exile 16 years after her husband was overthrown and died in a bloody coup. | ||
| 1991 Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait | ||
| 1992 Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party celebrated 63 years in power. | ||
| 1993 Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die | ||
| 1993 Five years after his exit in disgrace from the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was banned for life after he was ruled to have failed a second dope test. | ||
| 1994 South Africa's white right-wing Afrikaner People's Front (AVF) umbrella group decided to boycott the country's first all-race elections in April. | ||
| 1994 In Pensacola, Florida, Michael Griffin, a Christian fundamentalist, was sentenced to life imprisonment for first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a women's clinic doctor in March 1993. | ||
| 1994 White House lawyer Bernard Nussbaum resigned, becoming the first casualty of the Whitewater affair that had plagued the Clinton administration. | ||
| 1995 Graves of czar Nicholas & family found in St Petersburg | ||
| 1995 British merchant bank Barings confirmed that a rescue package had been agreed upon with the Dutch ING group to buy the bank after the massive stock market gambling that triggered its downfall. | ||
| 1996 Former Bangladesh President Khandkar Mushtaque Ahmed died at age 77. He was Bangladesh's first foreign minister, and took over as president after a military coup in August 1975. | ||
| 1997 Turkey's National Security Council said that Islamist Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan had signed a council statement demanding a crackdown on religious activism. | ||
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