What are the important events that happened on March 5? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 5: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 5 is the 64th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 301 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 20, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,741,132,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexacontatetragon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 349 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,457 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 5 Historical Events
- 1279 –The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- 1496 –King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
- 1770 –Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed 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. At a subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by John Adams.
- 1860 –Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
- 1868 –Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala.
- 1872 –George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
- 1960 –Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
- 1974 –Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
- 1978 –The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
- 2003 –In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
Who were born on March 5?
- 1713 –Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1783)
- 1871 –Rosa Luxemburg, Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)
- 1879 –Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
- 1904 –Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
- 1942 –Felipe González, Prime Minister of Spain (1982-1996)
- 1952 –Alan Clark, English keyboardist (Dire Straits)
- 1966 –Michael Irvin, American football player
- 1975 –Sasho Petrovski, Australian soccer player
- 1978 –Kimberly McCullough, American actress
- 1987 –Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
Who died on March 5?
- 1592 –Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
- 1622 –Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
- 1695 –Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
- 1770 –Crispus Attucks, American Revolution figure
- 1829 –John Adams, British mutineer (b. 1766)
- 1849 –David Scott, Scottish painter (b. 1806)
- 1876 –Marie d'Agoult, German-born writer (b. 1805)
- 1903 –George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)
- 1966 –Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
- 1967 –Georges Vanier, Canadian politician (b. 1888)
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