On This Day in History for March 5
Events in History
- 363 Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign that brings about his own death
- 1046 Persian scholar Naser Khosrow begins the 7 year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama
- 1179 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
- 1496 English King Henry VII grants John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) a commission to explore for new lands
- 1528 Utrecht governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague
- 1558 Smoking tobacco introduced into Europe by Spanish physician Francisco Fernandes
- 1579 Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht
- 1616 Astronomical work 'de Revolutionibus' by Nicolaus Copernicus placed on Catholic Forbidden index
- More Events in History
Henry II of England
Soong Mei-ling
Zhou Enlai
Momofuku Ando
Daniel KahnemanWeddings in History
- 1760 Princess Carolina marries Gen Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg
Divorces in History
- 1993 Former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi
More Weddings & Divorces in History
Crispus Attucks
Alessandro Volta
Joseph Stalin
Mohammad Mosaddegh
Richard Kuklinski
Hugo ChávezMarch in History
Louvre Pyramid
I. M. Pei's masterpiece at night in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre)
March 4, 1988
Mass Murderer Stalin Goes to His Grave
Countless millions of Russians were killed by the hand of Joseph Stalin, one of the most feared and brutal dictators of all time. He himself died on this day.
March 5, 1953
Birdseye – the Father of Frozen Food
Indigenous Canadians showed Clarence Birdseye how they preserved fish they had caught. Intrigued, he saw the possibilities and the frozen food industry was born.
March 6, 1930
Battle of the Alamo
The Fall of the Alamo by Robert Jenkins Onderdonk shows folk hero Davy Crockett shortly before being killed by Mexican soldiers
March 6, 1836