5 Mairch

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The 5t o Mairch is the 64t day o the year (65t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 301 days ti come.

Events

1770 - Boston Massacre: 5 Americans are kilt bi Breetish troops.
1850 - The Britannia Brig, ane o the main crossins atween mainland Wales an Anglesey across the Menai Strait, is opened.
1878 - Manchester United F.C. is foondit as Newton Heath LYR FC.
1894 - Archibald Primrose, 5t Yerl o Rosebery becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
1919 - Helsinki's main railwey station opens.
1933 - The Nazi Pairty wins 43.9% o the vote in German elections, five weeks efter Adolf Hitler came tae pouer.
1936 - The prototype o Supermarine Spitfire flies for the first time.
1946 - Winston Churchill uses the term "Iron Curtain" for the first time.
1953 - Joseph Stalin dees in the Soviet Union. Nikita Khrushchev taks ower frae him.
1960 - Che Guevara's "Guerrilero Heroico" photograph is taken.
1979 - Voyager 1 passes the planet Jupiter.
1983 - Rugby union: Scotland achieves its maist recent away win ower Ingland, defeatin thaim 22-12 at Twickenham in Lunnon.
1999 - Paul Okalik is electit as the first Premier o the newly creatit Canadian territory o Nunavut.
2006 - The BBC's laundmairk "Planet Earth" telly series debuts.
2013 - Preses o Venezuela Hugo Chávez dees o cancer agit 58.
2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Bosnie an Herzegovinae, Martinique, Palestine an Sooth Africae record thair first COVID-19 cases.

1133 - King Henry II o Ingland (d. 1189)
1324 - King David II o Scotland (d. 1371)
1326 - Louis I o Hungary (d. 1382)
1512 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cairtmaker (d. 1594)
1759 - John Jamieson, Scots clergyman, lexicografer, philologist an antiquary (d. 1838)
1830 - Charles Wyville Thomson, Scots naitural historian an marine zoologist (d. 1882)
1871 - Rosa Luxemburg, German activist (d. 1919)
1873 - Olav Bjaaland, Norse skier an splorer (d. 1961)
1874 - Henry Travers, Inglis actor (d. 1965)
1887 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian componer an conductor (d. 1959)
1896 - David Pratt, Scots fitbawer (d. 1967)
1898 - Misao Okawa, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2015)
1898 - Zhou Enlai, Cheenese politeecian (d. 1976)
1908 - Rex Harrison, Inglis actor (d. 1990)
1922 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (d. 1975)
1934 - Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American psychologist
1937 - Olusegun Obasanjo, umwhile Preses o Nigerie
1942 - Felipe González, umwhile Prime meenister o Spain
1942 - Mike Resnik, American Science Feection owthor (d. 2020)
1962 - The Proclaimers, Scots sangsters
1964 - Heather Roy, New Zealand politeecian
1965 - Carolyn Leckie, Scots politeecian
1974 - Eva Mendes, American actress
1974 - Jens Jeremies, German fitbawer
1982 - Dan Carter, New Zealand rugby union player
1982 - Nikki Walker, Scots rugby union player
1985 - David Marshall, Scots fitbawer
1987 - Anna Chakvetadze, Roushie tennis player
1988 - Brian Easton, Scots fitbawer
1993 - Harry Maguire, Inglis fitbawer

254 - Pape Lucius I (b. 200)
1605 - Pape Clement VIII (b. 1536)
1790 - Flora Macdonald, Jacobite heroine
1827 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathemateecian an astronomer (b. 1749)
1827 - Alessandro Volta, Italian pheesicist (b. 1745)
1864 - Leonard Horner, Scots merchand, geologist an eddicational reformer (b. 1785)
1941 - Tom Dorward, Scots rugby union player (b. 1916)
1953 - Sergei Prokofiev, Roushie componer (b. 1891)
1953 - Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (b. 1878)
1963 - Patsy Cline, American sangster (b. 1932)
2011 - Alberto Granado, Argentine-Cuban biochemist an writer (b. 1922)
2013 - Hugo Chávez, Preses o Venezuela (b. 1954)
2013 - Nigel Forbes, 22nt Laird Forbes, Scots sodger an politeecian (b. 1918)
2020 - Jeanette Fitzsimons, New Zealand politeecian (b. 1945)

St. John Joseph of the Cross

St. Piran - ane o the patron saunts o Cornwall

St. Virgilius of Arles

St. Theophilus

St. Caron

St. Carthach

St. Colman of Armagh

Bl. Dionysius Fugishima

St. Gerasimus

St. John-Joseph of the Cross

St. Oliva

St. Phocas and Antioch