Today is Saturday, March 5, the 65th day of 2016. There are 301 days left in the year.
1528 — Utrecht Governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague
1623 — First American temperance law enacted, Virginia
1651 — South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm
1743 — First U.S. religious journal, The Christian History, published
1746 — Jakobijnse troops leave Aberdeen
1807 — First performance of Ludwig von Beethoven’s fourth Symphony
1856 — Georgia becomes first state to regulate railroads
1868 — Stapler patented in England by C H Gould
1868 — U.S. Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson