March 5, when Boston 'tea party' happened!

On this day in 1946, Winston Churchill delivers his famous "Iron Curtain" speech.

Today is March 5, the sixty fifth day of the year.
There are 300 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1496 - England's King Henry VII commissions John and Sebastian Cabot to discover new lands.

1770 - Crowds and British troops clash in Boston, an incident that becomes known as the Boston Massacre and hastens American Revolutionary War.
1798 - French forces occupy Bern, Switzerland.

1868 - U.S. Senate is organized into a court of impeachment to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson.

1933 - The Nazi Party wins 44 per cent of the vote in German parliamentary elections, enabling it to join with Nationalists to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.
1939 - The Republican government of Spain flees to France after their forces are cornered by the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.
1946 - Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivers his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, in United States.
1953 - Soviet dictator Josef Stalin dies. Some 2,000 people are crushed to death in the crowd during the funeral.
1960 - President Sukarno suspends Indonesia's Parliament.
1966 - British airliner hits Japan's Mount Fuji, killing all 124 people aboard.
1970 - Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty goes into effect after 43 nations confirm ratification.
1974 - Ethiopia's leader Haile Selassie, confronted by continued unrest, agrees to constitutional convention to create new system of elected democratic government.
1991 - Iraq hands over what it says are the last 35 prisoners from the Gulf War.
1992 - A gunman kills six people and wounds six in Bern, Switzerland.
1993 - Gen. Philippe Morillon of France, commander of the U.N. mission to Bosnia, goes to the city of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia, and the Serbs halt their attack on the besieged city.
1994 - The United States, gratified by China's release of dissident Wei Jingsheng, presses for "explanations of the troubling events" that led to his arrest.
1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton sends sophisticated bomb-detection equipment and technical experts to Israel to help battle a deadly wave of terrorism.
1997 - Representatives of North Korea and South Korea meet for the first time in 25 years, for peace talks in New York.

2001 - A stampede breaks out during the annual hajj pilgrimage in Medina, Saudi Arabia, killing 35 Muslims.
2003 - Foreign ministers of France and Russia threaten to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution by the United States, Britain and Spain that declares Iraq had missed its last chance to disarm peacefully.
2004 - London-based international human rights group Amnesty International increases its estimate of how many women have been killed in the northern Mexico city of Ciudad Juarez and the nearby capital of Chihuahua state to 415 from 370.

Today's Birthdays
Gerardus Mercator, Flemish geographer-mathematician (1512-1594)
Giovani Tiepolo, Italian painter (1696-1770)
Soong Mayling, better known as Madame Chiang, wife of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of Taiwan (1898--)
Sir Rex Harrison, British actor (1908-1990)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975)
Penn Jillette, U.S. comedian (1955--)
Niki Taylor, U.S. model (1975--).

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