Daily Calendar for March 5th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1770s

• 1770: Boston Massacre. Five American rioters killed in skirmish with British troops

• Died 1770: Crispus Attucks (first casualty of Boston Massacre)

1830s

• Born 1835: William Steinway (piano manufacturer)

1840s

• 1849: Zachary Taylor was inaugurated as the 12th U.S. President; Millard Fillmore became Vice President

1850s

• Born 1853: Howard Pyle (illustrator)

1860s

• 1868: Impeachment proceedings of President Andrew Johnson began

1870s

• Born 1870: Benjamin Franklin Norris (novelist)

1890s

• Born 1893: Emmett J. Culligan (founder of the world's largest water treatment organization)

• Born 1898: Misao Okawa (Japanese woman who would later be recognized as the world's oldest person of her time. She died on April 1, 2015, and lived to be 117 years old.)

1900s

• 1907: First radio broadcast of a musical composition took place when Lee De Forest transmitted a performance of Rossini's William Tell Overture from Telharmonic Hall in NY to the Brooklyn Navy Yard

• Born 1908: Rex Harrison (actor)

1920s

• 1923: Montana and Nevada enacted the first old age pensions in the U.S.

• Born 1927: Jack Cassidy (actor)

• 1929: Fire destroyed more than 320 cars at an auto show in Los Angeles, California

1930s

• 1931: The Gandhi-Irwin Pact between Mahatma Gandhi and Viceroy Edward Wood, Lord Irwin, brought a halt to the civil disobedience campaign with Gandhi accepting the federal constitution plan adopted by the conference in return for British efforts to lessen repression

• Born 1936: Dean Stockwell (actor)

1940s

• Born 1941: Paul Sand (actor)

• Born 1946: Robert Patrick "Rocky" Bleier (football player)

• 1946: In a speech at Missouri's Westminster College, Winston Churchill introduced the phrase "iron curtain" to describe the repression of Soviet-dominated Europe

1950s

• Died 1953: Joseph Stalin (Russian leader)

• Born 1958: Andy Gibb (musician)

1960s

• Born 1962: Elise Burgin (tennis player)

• Died 1963: Patsy Cline (singer)

• 1963: Hula hoop was patented

1970s

• 1977: "Ask President Carter," the first presidential phone-in radio show was broadcast on CBS

• 1979: Voyager I relayed data from Jupiter, including photographs of its four largest moons

1980s

• Died 1982: John Belushi (actor)

• 1984: Standard Oil Co. of California and Gulf Corp. agreed to merge in a $13.3 billion transaction

• Born 1989: Jake Lloyd (actor)

2000s

• 2004: Martha Stewart was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and two counts of making false statements in her trial determining if she and her ex-broker lied to the government about her sale of ImClone Systems stock in December 2001