03-05-2005, 06:57 AM
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March 5th
1512 ~ Birthday of Gerardus Mercator, Flemish Geographer & Cartographer.
1658 ~ Birthday of Antoine Cadillac, founder of Detroit.
1770 ~ The Boston Massacre: A pre-Revolutionary incident that grew out of anger towards British troops, occurred. Five anti-British rioters were killed.
1871 ~ Birthday of Rosa Luxemburg, German Revolutionary.
1908 ~ Birthday of Rex Harrison, English actor.
1933 ~ In the last free elections in Germany until after World War II, the Nazi Party received 44% of the vote.
1946 ~ Cold War: Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron Curtain speech, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent…”
1953 ~ Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died at age 73, after 29 years in power.
1993 ~ Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson is banned from athletics for life after failing a drug test for a second time.
1997 ~ North and South Korean representatives met for the first time in 25 years for peace talks.
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