Today is Monday, March 5, the 65th day of 2012. There are 301 days left in the year.
254 ― St. Lucius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1461 ― Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses
1558 ― Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes
1623 ― 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia
1795 ― Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution
1836 ― Mexico attacks Alamo
1836 ― Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model
1896 ― Italian premier Crispi resigns
1900 ― American Hall of Fame is founded
1917 ― 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released
1933 ― FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday
1933 ― Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament
1942 ― Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
1946 ― Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
1956 ― “King Kong” 1st televised
1959 ― Iran and the U.S. sign economic & military treaty
1963 ― Beatles record “From Me to You” & “Thank You Girl”
1964 ― Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest
1970 ― Nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect
1984 ― The U.S. accuse Iraq of using poison gas
1991 ― Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait