5 March

**5 March** saal ke 64th din hae (65th leap saal me). Saal ke khalaas hoe me 301 din bachaa hae.

## Ghatna
* 1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
* 1868 – A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.
*  1868   – *[[Mefistofele]]*, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala.
* 1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
* 1894 – Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.
* 1904 – Nikola Tesla, in *Electrical World and Engineer*, describes the process of the ball lightning formation.
* 1912 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
* 1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
* 1940 – Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.
* 1942 – United States Navy Seabees established.
* 1943 – First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
* 1946 – Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
*  1946   – Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
* 1949 – The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
* 1953 – Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin died at age 73.
* 1958 – The Explorer 2 spacecraft launches and fails to reach Earth orbit.
* 1960 – The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase.
* 1965 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
* 1966 – BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
* 1970 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
* 1973 – Donald DeFreeze, the future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.
* 1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
* 1975 – First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
* 1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
* 1979 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios 2 all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
*  1979   – Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
* 1982 – Venera 14, a Soviet satellite, arrives at the planet Venus.
* 1984 – 6,000 Miners in the United Kingdom begin their historic strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
* 1988 – Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
* 1999 – Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
* 2001 – In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
* 2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.

## Janam

## Maut
* 1954 - Russia ke dictator, **[[Joseph Stalin]]** ke maut bhaes rahaa.