5 March
Notable Births
Doug Edert
b. 2000
American basketball player (born 2000)
Madison Beer
b. 1999
American singer (born 1999)
Justin Fields
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Yeri (singer)
b. 1999
South Korean singer and actress (born 1999)
Bo Bichette
b. 1998
American baseball player (born 1998)
Taylor Hill (model)
b. 1996
American model (born 1996)
Emmanuel Mudiay
b. 1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
Daria Saville
b. 1994
Russian-born Australian tennis player (born 1994)
MJ (South Korean singer)
b. 1994
South Korean singer (born 1994)
El Hadji Ba
b. 1993
Mauritanian footballer (born 1993)
Joshua Coyne
b. 1993
American musician & composer (born 1993)
Fred (footballer, born 1993)
b. 1993
Brazilian association football player
Ahmed Hassan (footballer, born 1993)
b. 1993
Egyptian footballer
Harry Maguire
b. 1993
English footballer (born 1993)
Kyle Schwarber
b. 1993
American baseball player (born 1993)
Sam Bankman-Fried
b. 1992
American entrepreneur/fraudster (born 1992)
Ramiro Funes Mori
b. 1991
Argentine footballer (born 1991)
Daniil Trifonov
b. 1991
Russian pianist and composer (born 1991)
Danny Drinkwater
b. 1990
English footballer (born 1990)
Mason Plumlee
b. 1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Notable Deaths
Kurt Moll
d. 2017
German operatic bass (1938–2017)
Hassan al-Turabi
d. 2016
Sudanese religious and political leader (1932–2016)
Ray Tomlinson
d. 2016
American computer programmer (1941–2016)
Al Wistert
d. 2016
American football player (1920–2016)
Vlada Divljan
d. 2015
Serbian musician
Edward Egan
d. 2015
American Catholic cardinal (1932–2015)
Geoff Edwards
d. 2014
American actor and game show host
Ailsa McKay
d. 2014
Scottish economist (1963–2014)
Leopoldo María Panero
d. 2014
Spanish poet (1948–2014)
Ola L. Mize
d. 2014
United States Army officer (1931–2014)
Paul Bearer
d. 2013
American professional wrestling manager (1954–2013)
Hugo Chávez
d. 2013
President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013
Duane Gish
d. 2013
American creationist (1921–2013)
Paul Haines (fiction writer)
d. 2012
New Zealand-born writer
Philip Madoc
d. 2012
Welsh actor (1934–2012)
William O. Wooldridge
d. 2012
United States Army soldier and the first Sergeant Major of the Army
Manolis Rasoulis
d. 2011
Musical artist
Charles B. Pierce
d. 2010
American filmmaker and actor (1938–2010)
Richard Stapley
d. 2010
English actor and screenwriter (1923–2010)
Richard Kiley
d. 1999
American actor (1922–1999)
On This Day in History
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2023
The 2023 Estonian parliamentary election is held, with two centre-right liberal parties gaining an absolute majority for the first time.
2023 Estonian parliamentary election
2023
A group of four prisoners escape from the Nouakchott Civil Prison, before being caught the next day.
2023 Nouakchott prison break
2021
Pope Francis begins a historic visit to Iraq amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pope Francis
2021
Twenty people are killed and 30 injured in a suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.
March 2021 Mogadishu bombing
2018
Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pause the Deir ez-Zor campaign due to the Turkish-led invasion of Afrin.
Syrian civil war
2012
Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar.
Tropical Storm Irina
2012
Two people are killed and six more are injured in a shooting at a hair salon in Bucharest, Romania.
2012 Bucharest hair salon shooting
2011
An Antonov An-148 crashes in Russia's Alexeyevsky District, Belgorod Oblast during a test flight, killing all seven aboard.
Antonov An-148
2003
In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.
Haifa
2002
An earthquake in Mindanao, Philippines, kills 15 people and injures more than 100.
2002 Mindanao earthquake
2001
In Mina, Saudi Arabia, 35 pilgrims are killed in a stampede on the Jamaraat Bridge during the Hajj.
Mina, Saudi Arabia
1993
Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301 crashes at Skopje International Airport in Petrovec, North Macedonia, killing 83.
Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301
1991
Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 109 crashes in Venezuela, killing 45.
Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 109
1982
Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus.
Venera 14
1981
The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 11⁄2 million units around the world.
ZX81
1979
Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
Venera 11
1978
The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Landsat 3
1974
Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
Yom Kippur War
1973
An Iberia McDonnell Douglas DC-9 collides in mid-air with a Spantax Convair 990 Coronado over Nantes, France, killing all 68 people aboard the DC-9, including music manager Michael Jeffery.
Iberia (airline)
1970
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons