5 Mairch

The5t o Mairchis the 64t day o the year (65t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 301 days ti come.

Events

1850:The Britannia Brig in NorthWales

1936:Spitfire aircraft

• 1770-BostonMassacre: 5 Americans are kilt bi Breetish troops.
• 1850- TheBritannia Brig,ane o the main crossins atween mainlandWalesanAngleseyacross theMenai Strait,is opened.
• 1878-Manchester United F.C.is foondit as Newton Heath LYR FC.
• 1894-Archibald Primrose, 5t Yerl o RoseberybecomesPrime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
• 1919-Helsinki's mainrailwey stationopens.
• 1933- TheNazi Pairtywins 43.9% o the vote in German elections, five weeks efterAdolf Hitlercame tae pouer.
• 1936- The prototype o Supermarine Spitfire flies for the first time.
• 1946-Winston Churchilluses the term "Iron Curtain" for the first time.
• 1953-Joseph Stalindees in theSoviet Union.Nikita Khrushchevtaks ower frae him.
• 1960-Che Guevara's "Guerrilero Heroico" photograph is taken.
• 1979-Voyager 1passes the planetJupiter.
• 1983-Rugby union:Scotlandachieves its maist recent away win owerIngland,defeatin thaim 22-12 at Twickenham inLunnon.
• 1999-Paul Okalikis electit as the first Premier o the newly creatit Canadian territory oNunavut.
• 2006- TheBBC's laundmairk "PlanetEarth"telly series debuts.
• 2013-PresesoVenezuelaHugo Chávezdees o cancer agit 58.
• 2020-COVID-19 pandemic:Bosnie an Herzegovinae,Martinique,PalestineanSooth Africaerecord thair firstCOVID-19cases.

Births

Gerardus Mercator

Rex Harrison

• 1133- KingHenry II o Ingland(d.1189)
• 1324- KingDavid 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,umwhilePresesoNigerie
• 1942-Felipe González,umwhilePrime meenisteroSpain
• 1942-Mike Resnik,AmericanScience Feectionowthor (d.2020)
• 1962-The Proclaimers,Scots sangsters
• 1964-Heather Roy,New Zealandpoliteecian
• 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

Daiths

• 254-Pape Lucius I(b.200)
• 1605-Pape Clement VIII(b.1536)
• 1790-Flora Macdonald,Jacobiteheroine
• 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,PresesoVenezuela(b.1954)
• 2013-Nigel Forbes, 22nt Laird Forbes,Scots sodger an politeecian (b.1918)
• 2020-Jeanette Fitzsimons,New Zealand politeecian (b.1945)

Halidays

Cornwall'sSaunt Piran's Banner

St. Piran's Day celebration inCornwall

• 5 Mairch is the eat day o the follaein saunts:

St. John Joseph of the Cross

St. Piran - ane o the patron saunts oCornwall

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. Kieran

St. Oliva

St. Phocas and Antioch

• Lei Feng Day (Fowkrepublic o Cheenae)