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Day Of The Week: March 5
March 5, 2025 is the 64th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 301 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Pisces is your zodiac sign. Aquamarine is your modern birthstone. Jade is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: March 5
- 1824 –First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
- 1850 –The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
- 1906 –Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
- 1931 –The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
- 1933 –Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a “bank holiday”, closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
- 1943 –First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
- 1960 –Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase, giving rise to the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis.
- 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 II all are hit by “off the scale” gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
Who were born on March 5?
- 1585 –John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)
- 1794 –Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872)
- 1869 –Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal and archbishop (d. 1952)
- 1921 –Elmer Valo, American baseball player (d. 1998)
- 1956 –Teena Marie, American singer (d. 2010)
- 1958 –Andy Gibb, English-born Australian singer and teen idol (d. 1988)
- 1962 –Jonathan Penner, American reality show contestant
- 1969 –MC Solaar, French rapper
- 1979 –Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter
- 1984 –Ryan Crowley, Australian rules footballer
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