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March 5 is the 64th day of the year (65th in leap years) ... Historical Events on March 5 This page was last edited on 17 May 2024, at 17:42 ...
The Boston Massacre (known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street [1]) was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. The event was heavily publicized as "a massacre" by leading Patriots ...
1836 - Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber). 1842 - Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande. 1861 - The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America. 1868 - A court of impeachment is organized in the ...
March 2, 1945 (Friday) The U.S. Ninth Army captured Neuss while the Third Army took Trier. [5] U.S. ships and warplanes bombarded the Ryuku Islands for 48 hours. [6] German submarine U-3519 struck a mine and sank in the Baltic Sea. Died: Emily Carr, 73, Canadian painter and writer.
March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. The March equinox on the 20 or 21 marks the astronomical beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the ...
The concise illustrated history of the American Revolution (1972) for secondary schools online 136pp; Fremont-Barnes, Gregory, and Richard Alan Ryerson, eds. The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol. 2006) George, Lynn. A Timeline of the American Revolution (2002) 24pp; for middle ...
July–September. July 5 – The U.S. Secret Service is founded. July 6 – The Nation political magazine begins publication. July 7 – Following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14, the 4 conspirators condemned to death during the trial are hanged: David Herold, George Atzerodt, Lewis Powell and Mary Surratt.
1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1975th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 975th year of the 2nd millennium, the 75th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1970s decade.