March 5: Learn From Lei Feng Day in China
Sinclair ZX81
- 363 – Roman emperor Julian and his army set out from Antioch to attack the Sassanian Empire.
- 1824 – The First Anglo-Burmese War, the longest and most expensive war in British Indian history, began.
- 1943 – The Gloster Meteor, the first operational jet fighter for the Allied Powers, made its maiden flight.
- 1963 – Country music stars Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins were killed when their Piper PA-24 Comanche crashed shortly after takeoff in Camden, Tennessee, U.S.
- 1981 – The ZX81 (pictured), a pioneering British home computer, was launched by Sinclair Research and went on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
Gerardus Mercator (b. 1512) · Marietta Piccolomini (b. 1834) · Lena Baker (d. 1945)
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