Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 5
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This is a list of selected March 5 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.March 5: Lei Feng Day in the People's Republic of China
- 1770 – The pelting of British soldiers with snowballs soon escalated into a riot in Boston, Massachusetts, leaving at least five civilians dead.
- 1824 – Britain officially declared war on Burma, beginning the First Anglo–Burmese War.
- 1850 – The Britannia Bridge, a tubular bridge of wrought iron rectangular box-section spans crossing the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, opened.
- 1872 – American entrepreneur and engineer George Westinghouse patented the air brake for trains to stop more reliably.
- 1946 – The term "Iron Curtain" was popularized by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (pictured) during a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, USA.
- 1970 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, an international treaty to limit the spread of nuclear weapons, entered into force.
- 1999 – Paul Okalik was elected as the first Premier of the Canadian territory of Nunavut.
