
1770: British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The Boston Massacre is considered one of the most significant events that led to the American Revolutionary War.
1862: Lagos is declared a British Colony. The rest of Nigeria will be seized by Britain by 1867.

1868: The worldโs favorite paper joiner, the stapler was patented by C. H. Gould in England.

1953: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin died in his home after suffering from a stroke.

1958: A statue of Ghanaโs first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah is unveiled before Parliament House in Accra. The artwork seeks to be a symbol of national pride, not as a cult personality. Nevertheless, anti Nkrumah group will bomb the statue in 1961 and the repaired statue will be toppled by a mob when his regime, which will become dictatorial, is overthrown in 1966.

1963: Country music stars Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins all perished in an airplane crash. Crash investigators determined that the crash was due to pilot error. The three American country stars had just performed at a benefit for the family of a well-known disc jockey, who had died in a car crash the previous month.

1996: In Enugu state, Nigeria, 13 people are killed and more than 10,000 displaced in a territorial dispute between the Egbo Ide and the Iziogo communities
1996: A jet breaks apart in midโair and plummets into Japanโs Mount Fuji. All 124 people on board the aircraft were killed. The planeโs pilot flew close to the mountain to give the passengers a better view of it.
2021: Pope Francis made history when he became the first pope to visit Iraq.
The four-day visit was made possible by an invitation from the Iraqi government and the largest Catholic church in Iraq, the Chaldean Catholic Church. Before this, a papal visit to Iraq was attempted in 2000, when Pope John Paul II wished to visit the city of Ur, but the Iraqi government denied him. The four-day visit was made possible by an invitation from the Iraqi government and the largest Catholic church in Iraq, the Chaldean Catholic Church. Before this, a papal visit to Iraq was attempted in 2000, when Pope John Paul II wished to visit the city of Ur, but the Iraqi government denied him.

1933: Great Depression- President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a “bank holiday”, closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933: Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.

1946: Winston Churchill coins the phrase “Iron Curtain” in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.

1953: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin died in his home after suffering from a stroke.
1970: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
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.
1981: The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, was launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
1982: Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus.
Births on This Day, March 5
Olusegun Obasanjo, 87 years
Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo was born in Ibogun-Olaogun, a village in southwest Nigeria. His later passport gave his date of birth as 5 March 1937, although this was later considered as an estimate, with no contemporary records surviving.
Obasanjo was a career soldier before serving twice as his nation’s head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as a democratically elected president from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007.
Obasanjo is the first Nigerian to serve as a military Head of state without a coup and the second elected civilian president, after Shehu Shagari.

Madison Beer, 25 years
Madison Elle Beer is an American singer and songwriter. Beer gained substantial media coverage when Justin Bieber posted a link to one of her covers she posted on YouTube. She released her debut single, “Melodies”, in 2013. In 2018, Beer released her debut EP, As She Pleases.
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