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Events

• 1824 (202 years ago) First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
• 1933 (93 years ago) Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
• 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
• 1953 (73 years ago) Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
• 1965 (61 years ago) March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against the British colonial presence.
• 1974 (52 years ago) Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
• 1978 (48 years ago) The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
• 2012 (14 years ago) Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar.

Births

• 1133 (893 years ago) Henry II of England,
• 1512 (514 years ago) Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (died 1594)
• 1871 (155 years ago) Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and philosopher (died 1919)
• 1898 (128 years ago) Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 1976)
• 1922 (104 years ago) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1975)
• 1934 (92 years ago) Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American economist and psychologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
• 1970 (56 years ago) Aleksandar Vučić, Serbian president
• 1974 (52 years ago) Eva Mendes, American model and actress

Deaths

• 254 (1772 years ago) Pope Lucius I,
• 1827 (199 years ago) Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (born 1749)
• 1827 (199 years ago) Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and academic (born 1745)
• 1893 (133 years ago) Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (born 1828)
• 1953 (73 years ago) Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator and politician of Georgian descent, 2nd leader of the Soviet Union (born 1878)
• 1953 (73 years ago) Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1891)
• 1966 (60 years ago) Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet, author, and translator (born 1889)
• 2013 (13 years ago) Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (born 1954)

All 420 events, births and deaths of March 5