Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: March 5
March 5, 2024 is the 65th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 301 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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
- 1046 –Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
- 1616 –Nicolaus Copernicus’s book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the catholic chuch
- 1770 –Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by John Adams.
- 1836 –Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
- 1912 –Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing 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.
- 1965 –March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
- 1970 –The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
- 1974 –Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
- 1975 –First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
Who were born on March 5?
- 1750 –Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical scholar (d. 1805)
- 1794 –Robert Cooper Grier, American jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1870)
- 1817 –Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist (d. 1894)
- 1879 –Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
- 1904 –Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
- 1934 –Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist, Nobel laureate
- 1948 –Richard Hickox, English musical conductor
- 1958 –Andy Gibb, English-born Australian singer and teen idol (d. 1988)
- 1977 –Mike MacDougal, American baseball player
- 1986 –Ellen Whitaker, English show jumper
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