TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS SUNDAY, MARCH 5, the 64th day of 2023. There are 301 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
On this date in 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who’d been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people.
In 1933, in German parliamentary elections, the Nazi Party won 44% of the vote; the Nazis joined with a conservative nationalist party to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.
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.”
In 1953, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died after three decades in power.
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).
In 1970, the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons went into effect after 43 nations ratified it.
In 1982, comedian John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose in a rented bungalow in Hollywood; he was
33.
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.
In 2020, 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.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actor Paul Sand is 91. Actor Michael Warren is
77. Singer Eddy Grant is 75. Rock musician Alan Clark (Dire Straits) is 71. Actor-comedian Marsha Warfield is
69. Magician Penn Jillette is 68. Rock singers Charlie and Craig Reid (The Proclaimers) are 61. Pro Football Hallof-Famer Michael Irvin is 57. Actors Kevin Connolly, Eva Mendes and Jill Ritchie are 49. Actor Jolene Blalock and model Niki Taylor are 48. Actor Kimberly McCullough is 45. Actor Karolina Wydra is 42. Singer-songwriter Amanda Shires is 41. Actor Dominique McElligott is 37. Actors Sterling Knight and Jake Lloyd are 34.