March 05
1770
The Boston Massacre, a pre-Revolutionary incident that grew out of anger towards British troops, occurred. Five anti-British rioters were killed.
1933
In the last free elections in Germany until after World War II, the Nazi Party received 44% of the vote.
1946
Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron curtain speech, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent.”
1953
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died at age 73, after 29 years in power.
1963
Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hankshaw Hawkins were killed in a plane crash.
1997
North and South Korean representatives met for the first time in 25 years for peace talks.
Birthdays
Gerardus Mercator
1512–1594, Flemish Cartographer.
Gerardus Mercator: Latin form of his real name, Gerhard Kremer. Flemish geographer, mathematician, and cartographer. He studied in Louvain, where he had a geographical establishment (1534).
Antoine Cadillac
founder of Detroit (1658)
Charles Goodnight
cattleman (1836)
Lady Augusta Gregory
dramatist (1859)
Rosa Luxemburg
revolutionary (1871)
Rex Harrison
actor (1908)