more events on March 5
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1984
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that cities have the right to display the Nativity scene as part of their Christmas display.
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1976
Britain gives up on the Ulster talks and decides to retain rule in Northern Ireland indefinitely.
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1969
Gustav Heinemann is elected West German President.
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1956
The U.S. Supreme Court affirms the ban on segregation in public schools in Brown vs. Board of Education.
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1948
Leslie Marmon Silko, writer (Ceremony).
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1946
In Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill tells a crowd that “an iron curtain has descended on the Continent [of Europe].”
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1943
In desperation due to war losses, fifteen and sixteen year olds are called up for military service in the German army.
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1938
Lynn Margulis, biologist.
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1933
Hitler and Nationalist allies win the Reichstag majority. It will be the last free election in Germany until after World War II.
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Newly inaugurated President Franklin D. Roosevelt halts the trading of gold and declares a bank holiday.
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1928
Hitler‘s National Socialists win the majority vote in Bavaria.
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1918
The Soviets move the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow.
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1912
The Italians become the first to use dirigibles for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance flights behind Turkish lines west of Tripoli.
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1908
Rex Harrison, actor.
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1905
Russians begin to retreat from Mukden in Manchuria, China.
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1887
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazillian composer.
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1870
Frank Norris, novelist (McTeague, The Octopus).
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1853
Howard Pyle, writer and illustrator (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood).
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1824
James Merritt Ives, lithographer for Currier and Ives.
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Elisha Harris, U.S. physician and founder of the American Public Health Association.
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1821
James Monroe becomes the first president to be inaugurated on March 5, only because the 4th was a Sunday.
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1793
Austrian troops crush the French and recapture Liege.
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1766
Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
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1624
Class-based legislation is passed in the colony of Virginia, exempting the upper class from punishment by whipping.
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1574
William Oughtred, mathematician and inventor of the slide rule.
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1326
Louis I (the Great), King of Hungary.
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1133
Henry II, King of England (1133-1189).