Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 5
This is a list of selected March 5 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Artist's impression of Crispus Attucks, one of the people killed in the Boston Massacre -
St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow -
George Westinghouse -
Winston Churchill -
Winston Churchill -
The Britannia Bridge, c. 1852 -
Sinclair ZX81 -
Gloster Meteor -
Supermarine Spitfire -
Paul Okalik -
"Guerrillero Heroico" by Alberto Korda
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1496 – King Henry VII of England issued letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands. | refimprove section |
| 1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, describing his heliocentric theory of the Solar System, was prohibited by the Roman Catholic Church. | refimprove section |
| 1850 – The Britannia Bridge, a tubular bridge of wrought iron rectangular box-section spans crossing the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, opened. | needs more footnotes |
| 1872 – American entrepreneur and engineer George Westinghouse patented the air brake, allowing trains to stop more reliably. | needs more footnotes |
| 1918 – Bolshevist Russia relocated its capital from Petrograd to Moscow. | refimprove |
| 1936 – The prototype of the Supermarine Spitfire, a British single-seat fighter that was later used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries during the Second World War, flew for the first time. | refimprove section |
| 1946 – The term "Iron Curtain", describing the symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas during the Cold War, was popularized by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. | refimprove section |
| 1970 – The international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to limit the spread of nuclear weapons entered into force. | refimprove section, needs update |
| 1999 – Paul Okalik was elected as the first premier of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. | refimprove section |
| Elaine Paige (b. 1948) | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 363 – Roman emperor Julian and his army set out from Antioch to attack the Sassanian Empire.
- 1824 – The First Anglo-Burmese War, the longest and most expensive war in British Indian history, began.
- 1943 – The Gloster Meteor, the first operational jet fighter for the Allied Powers, made its maiden flight.
- 1960 – Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
- 1963 – Country music stars Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins were killed when their Piper PA-24 Comanche crashed shortly after takeoff in Camden, Tennessee, U.S.
- 1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, was launched by Sinclair Research and went on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
- Born/died: Gerardus Mercator (b. 1512) · Marietta Piccolomini (b. 1834) · Lena Baker (d. 1945) · Anna Akhmatova (d. 1966)
March 5: Shrove Tuesday (Western Christianity, 2019); Learn from Lei Feng Day in China; St Piran's Day in Cornwall, United Kingdom
- 1279 – The Livonian branch of the Teutonic Order suffered a great loss when 71 knights died in the Battle of Aizkraukle.
- 1770 – The Boston Massacre (engraving shown): British soldiers fired into a crowd in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1811 – Peninsular War: In the Battle of Barrosa, an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese force trying to lift the Siege of Cádiz defeated a French attack but could not break the siege itself.
- 1966 – BOAC Flight 911 disintegrated and crashed near Mount Fuji shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport, killing all 113 passengers and 11 crew members on board.
- 1975 – Computer hobbyists in Silicon Valley held the first meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club, whose members would go on to have great influence on the development of the personal computer.
Edward Cornwallis (b. 1713) · Olav Bjaaland (b. 1873) · Ailsa McKay (d. 2014)