Temat: On the day I was born...
March 5th
Uncle Stalin died..
1940 - Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.
1770 - Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including a black man named Crispus Attucks, and a boy are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War five years later.
1836 - Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1907 - The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
1933 - In Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
1998 - NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony.
1988 - Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
1979 - Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
1970 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1945 - World War II: The "Battle of the Ruhr" begins.