Today in history: March 5
In 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who’d been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, and more events that happened on this day in history.
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1770: The Boston Massacre
In 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who’d been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people.
1868: Andrew Johnson
In 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.
1927: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In 1927, “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place,” the last Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was published in the U.S. in Liberty Magazine.
1933: The Nazi Party
In 1933, in German parliamentary elections, the Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote; the Nazis joined with a conservative nationalist party to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.
1946: Winston Churchill
In 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, in which he said: “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: Josef Stalin
In 1953, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died after three decades in power.
1960: Elvis Presley
In 1960, Elvis Presley was discharged from the U.S. Army.
1963: Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins
In 1963, country music performers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins died in the crash of their plane, a Piper Comanche, near Camden, Tennessee, along with pilot Randy Hughes (Cline’s manager).
1977: Jimmy Carter
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter took questions from 42 telephone callers in 26 states on a network radio call-in program moderated by Walter Cronkite.
1998: The Moon
In 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.
2006: AT&T
In 2006, AT&T announced it was buying BellSouth Corp., a big step toward resurrecting the old Ma Bell telephone system.
2011: Alberto Granado
Ten years ago: Alberto Granado, 88, who’d accompanied Ernesto “Che” Guevara on a journey of discovery across Latin America described in “The Motorcycle Diaries,” died in Havana.
2011: Egypt
Ten years ago: Egyptians turned their anger toward ousted President Hosni Mubarak’s internal security apparatus, storming the agency’s main headquarters and other offices.
2016: Bernie Sanders
Five years ago: Bernie Sanders won Democratic caucuses in Kansas and Nebraska, while Hillary Clinton prevailed in Louisiana.
2016: Ted Cruz
Five years ago: Republican Ted Cruz won in Maine and Kansas while Donald Trump was victorious in Louisiana and Kentucky.
2020: Coronavirus
One year ago: Officials ordered a cruise ship with 3,500 people aboard to stay back from the California coast until passengers and crew could be tested; a traveler from its previous voyage died of the coronavirus.
2020: Elizabeth Warren
One year ago: Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren ended her Democratic presidential campaign after failing to finish higher than third place in any of the 18 states that had voted so far.
2020: Stock Market
One year ago: Two weeks of wild swings in the stock market continued, with the Dow industrials falling 970 points, or 3.6 percent.
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