History for March 5

History for March 5 - On-This-Day.com
Gerhardus Mercator 1512 - Flemish mapmaker, William Oughtred 1575 - Mathematician, credited with inventing the slide rule, Antoine Cadillac 1658 - Founder of Detroit, MI


Emmett J. Culligan 1893 - Water treatment pioneer, Penn Jillett 1955 - Magician (Penn and Teller), Andy Gibb 1958 - Singer


1624 - In the American colony of Virginia, the upper class was exempted from whipping by legislation.


1770 - "The Boston Massacre" took place when British troops fired on a crowd in Boston killing five people. Two British troops were later convicted of manslaughter.


1836 - Samuel Colt's Patent Arms Manufacturing of Paterson, New Jersey, was chartered by the New Jersey legislature.


1922 - "Annie Oakley" (Phoebe Ann Moses) broke all existing records for women's trap shooting. She hit 98 out of 100 targets.


1933 - The Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections.


1943 - Germany called fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds for military service due to war losses.


1946 - Winston Churchill delivered his "Iron Curtain Speech".


1953 - Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin died. He had been in power for 29 years.