March 5: Learn From Lei Feng Day in China; St Piran's Day in Cornwall, United Kingdom
Boston Massacre engraving by Paul Revere
- 1496 – King Henry VII of England issued letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
- 1770 – British soldiers fired into a crowd in Boston, Massachusetts, killing five civilians (engraving pictured).
- 1943 – The Gloster Meteor, the first operational jet fighter for the Allied Powers, made its maiden flight.
- 1960 – Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
- 1999 – Paul Okalik was elected as the first premier of the Canadian territory of Nunavut.
Elaine Paige (b. 1948) • Anna Akhmatova (d. 1966)
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