March 5
1770 - The Boston Massacre, a pre-Revolutionary incident that grew out of anger towards British troops, occurred. Five anti-British rioters were killed.
1849 - Zachary Taylor was inaugurated as the 12th president of the United States.
1868 - The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began in the U.S. Senate, with Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase presiding. Johnson, the first U.S. president to be impeached, was accused of "high crimes and misdemeanors" stemming from his attempt to fire Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; the trial ended on May 26 with Johnson's acquittal.
1933 - In the last free elections in Germany until after World War II, the Nazi Party received 44% of the vote.
1946 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, saying: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent, allowing police governments to rule Eastern Europe."
1953 - Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died at age 73, after 29 years in power.
1963 - Singers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hankshaw Hawkins were killed in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee.
1970 - The nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect.
1979 - NASA's Voyager 1 space probe flew past Jupiter, sending back photographs of the planet and its moons.
1982 - Comedian John Belushi died from a drug overdose at age 33.
1997 - North and South Korean representatives met for the first time in 25 years for peace talks.
1998 - NASA scientists said enough water was frozen in the loose soil of the moon to support a lunar base and perhaps, one day, a human colony.
2001 - Vice President Dick Cheney underwent an angioplasty for a partially blocked artery.
2004 - Martha Stewart was convicted of obstructing justice and lying to the government about why she'd unloaded her Imclone Systems Inc. stock just before the price plummeted.
2012 - President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House, where Obama urged pressure and diplomacy to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb while Netanyahu emphasized his nation's right to a pre-emptive attack.
2017 - Throngs of people converged in the city of Selma, Alabama, for the annual re-enactment of a key event in the civil rights movement: the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge by demonstrators seeking voting rights.
2021 - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s health department confirmed that members of his COVID-19 task force altered a state Health Department report to omit the full number of nursing home patients killed by the coronavirus, but insisted the changes were made because of concerns about the data’s accuracy.
2021 - Pope Francis began the first-ever papal visit to Iraq with an appeal for Iraqis to protect the country’s diversity, and for the country’s embattled and dwindling Christian community to persevere.
Birthdays
22 - Gabby Barrett (singer)
23 - Madison Beer (singer)
24 - Micah Fowler (actor)
26 - Taylor Hill (model)
33 - Jake Lloyd (actor)
33 - Sterling Knight (actor)
36 - Dominique McElligott (actress)
40 - Amanda Shires (singer)
41 - Karolina Wydra (actress)
44 - Kimberly McCullough (actress)
47 - Niki Taylor (model)
47 - Jolene Blalock (actress)
48 - Jill Ritchie (actress)
48 - Eva Mendes (actress)
48 - Kevin Connolly (actor)
53 - Paul Blackthorne (actor)
56 - Michael Irvin (football player)
59 - Joel Osteen (religious leader)
63 - Talia Balsam (actress)
66 - Adriana Barraza (actress)
67 - Penn Jillette (magician)
68 - Marsha Warfield (actress/comedian)
74 - Eddy Grant (singer)
75 - Eddie Hodges (actor)
76 - Michael Warren (actor)
83 - Samantha Eggar (actress)
84 - Fred Williamson (actor)
88 - James B. Sikking (actor)
90 - Paul Sand (actor)
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Today in Sports History - March 5
1964 - The NFL teams purchased Ed Sabol's Blair Motion Pictures, which was renamed NFL Films.
1985 - Mike Bossy of the New York Islanders became the first player in NHL history to score 50 goals in eight consecutive seasons.
1993 - Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from racing for life by the Amateur Athletic Association after testing positive for banned performance-enhancing substances for a second time.
1994 - Michael Adams (Washington Bullets) became the third player in NBA history to get 900 career three-point field goals.
1996 - Earl Weaver and Jim Bunning are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1996 - The Dallas Mavericks attempted 49 three-pointers for the fifth straight game.
1997 - Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox and Willie Wells are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
2009 - Moises Alou announces his retirement from baseball.
1770 - The Boston Massacre, a pre-Revolutionary incident that grew out of anger towards British troops, occurred. Five anti-British rioters were killed.
1849 - Zachary Taylor was inaugurated as the 12th president of the United States.
1868 - The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began in the U.S. Senate, with Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase presiding. Johnson, the first U.S. president to be impeached, was accused of "high crimes and misdemeanors" stemming from his attempt to fire Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; the trial ended on May 26 with Johnson's acquittal.
1933 - In the last free elections in Germany until after World War II, the Nazi Party received 44% of the vote.
1946 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, saying: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent, allowing police governments to rule Eastern Europe."
1953 - Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died at age 73, after 29 years in power.
1963 - Singers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hankshaw Hawkins were killed in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee.
1970 - The nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect.
1979 - NASA's Voyager 1 space probe flew past Jupiter, sending back photographs of the planet and its moons.
1982 - Comedian John Belushi died from a drug overdose at age 33.
1997 - North and South Korean representatives met for the first time in 25 years for peace talks.
1998 - NASA scientists said enough water was frozen in the loose soil of the moon to support a lunar base and perhaps, one day, a human colony.
2001 - Vice President Dick Cheney underwent an angioplasty for a partially blocked artery.
2004 - Martha Stewart was convicted of obstructing justice and lying to the government about why she'd unloaded her Imclone Systems Inc. stock just before the price plummeted.
2012 - President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House, where Obama urged pressure and diplomacy to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb while Netanyahu emphasized his nation's right to a pre-emptive attack.
2017 - Throngs of people converged in the city of Selma, Alabama, for the annual re-enactment of a key event in the civil rights movement: the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge by demonstrators seeking voting rights.
2021 - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s health department confirmed that members of his COVID-19 task force altered a state Health Department report to omit the full number of nursing home patients killed by the coronavirus, but insisted the changes were made because of concerns about the data’s accuracy.
2021 - Pope Francis began the first-ever papal visit to Iraq with an appeal for Iraqis to protect the country’s diversity, and for the country’s embattled and dwindling Christian community to persevere.
Birthdays
22 - Gabby Barrett (singer)
23 - Madison Beer (singer)
24 - Micah Fowler (actor)
26 - Taylor Hill (model)
33 - Jake Lloyd (actor)
33 - Sterling Knight (actor)
36 - Dominique McElligott (actress)
40 - Amanda Shires (singer)
41 - Karolina Wydra (actress)
44 - Kimberly McCullough (actress)
47 - Niki Taylor (model)
47 - Jolene Blalock (actress)
48 - Jill Ritchie (actress)
48 - Eva Mendes (actress)
48 - Kevin Connolly (actor)
53 - Paul Blackthorne (actor)
56 - Michael Irvin (football player)
59 - Joel Osteen (religious leader)
63 - Talia Balsam (actress)
66 - Adriana Barraza (actress)
67 - Penn Jillette (magician)
68 - Marsha Warfield (actress/comedian)
74 - Eddy Grant (singer)
75 - Eddie Hodges (actor)
76 - Michael Warren (actor)
83 - Samantha Eggar (actress)
84 - Fred Williamson (actor)
88 - James B. Sikking (actor)
90 - Paul Sand (actor)
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Today in Sports History - March 5
1964 - The NFL teams purchased Ed Sabol's Blair Motion Pictures, which was renamed NFL Films.
1985 - Mike Bossy of the New York Islanders became the first player in NHL history to score 50 goals in eight consecutive seasons.
1993 - Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from racing for life by the Amateur Athletic Association after testing positive for banned performance-enhancing substances for a second time.
1994 - Michael Adams (Washington Bullets) became the third player in NBA history to get 900 career three-point field goals.
1996 - Earl Weaver and Jim Bunning are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1996 - The Dallas Mavericks attempted 49 three-pointers for the fifth straight game.
1997 - Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox and Willie Wells are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
2009 - Moises Alou announces his retirement from baseball.
