Mar 5, 1770: The Boston Massacre, a pre-Revolutionary incident that grew out of anger towards British troops, occurred. Five anti-British rioters were killed.

Mar 5, 1946: Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron curtain speech, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent.”

Mar 5, 1963: Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hankshaw Hawkins were killed in a plane crash.