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05 March, 2005
The Burkinabé Party for Democracy and Socialism holds its 1st National Convention
05 March, 2003
In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
05 March, 2001
In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
05 March, 2001
Santana High School shooting: A student shoots at other students at Santana High School in Santee, California, killing two and wounding thirteen.
05 March, 1999
Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
05 March, 1998
NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony.
05 March, 1991
Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners.
05 March, 1988
Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
05 March, 1982
Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus.
05 March, 1979
Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
05 March, 1979
Voyager 1s closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
05 March, 1979
Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49.
05 March, 1978
Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California.
05 March, 1976
British pound falls below $2 U.S. for the first time.
05 March, 1974
Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
05 March, 1973
Donald DeFreeze, future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.
05 March, 1970
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
05 March, 1970
Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively.
05 March, 1968
U.S. launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops Island to study the Sun.
05 March, 1966
A BOAC Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
05 March, 1966
In Luxembourg, Udo Jürgens wins the eleventh Eurovision Song Contest for Austria.
05 March, 1964
Ceylon declares emergency crisis due to unrest.
05 March, 1960
Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase.
05 March, 1958
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.
05 March, 1958
Explorer 2 spacecraft launches, fails to reach Earth orbit.
05 March, 1949
The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
05 March, 1946
Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
05 March, 1946
Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
05 March, 1945
World War II: "Battle of the Ruhr" begins.
05 March, 1943
First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
05 March, 1940
Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.
05 March, 1936
First flight of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft.
05 March, 1933
Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions.
05 March, 1933
In Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
05 March, 1918
Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
05 March, 1916
Spanish football club Real Club Deportivo Mallorca is founded.
05 March, 1915
World War I: LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
05 March, 1912
Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
05 March, 1907
The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
05 March, 1905
Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.
05 March, 1904
Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of ball lightning formation.
05 March, 1894
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.
05 March, 1872
George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
05 March, 1868
A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.
05 March, 1868
Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito premieres at La Scala.
05 March, 1861
The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.
05 March, 1860
Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join Kingdom of Sardinia.
05 March, 1850
The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
05 March, 1848
Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance.
05 March, 1842
Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.

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