Today in History
Listings for Friday, March 5, 2021.
Birthdays:
- 1512 G. Mercator --1594
- 1824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame)
- 1908 Rex Harrison
- 1922 James Noble
- 1936 Dean Stockwell
- 1939 Samantha Eggar
- 1946 Michael Warren
- 1958 Andy Gibb
- 1975 Niki Taylor
Events:
- 1616 Corpernicus' DE REVOLUTIONIBUS placed on Catholic forbidden index
- 1770 Boston Massacre
- 1845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US.
- 1908 1st ascent of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica
- 1933 FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday.
- 1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
- 1979 Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter
That's all for today.
