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Day in History: March 5th From King Henry VII to Three 6 Mafia
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Today in history the Dixie chicks said some infamous words and the Confederate flag was adopted in the south. Find out what else happened on March 5th the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). There are 301 days remaining in the year.
| | 1496 - England King Henry VII issued letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to discover of unknown lands. |
| | 1770 - Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including a black slave named Crispus Attucks, and a boy are killed by British troops in an event that would help start the American Revolutionary War five years later. |
| | 1821 - James Monroe is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States. |
| | 1836 - Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber). |
| | 1861 - The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America. |
| | 1872 - George Westinghouse patents the air brake. |
| | 1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes is publicly inaugurated as the 19th President of the United States (he was privately inaugurated on March 3). |
| | 1917 - Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States. |
| | 1933 - Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions. |
| | 1946 - Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. |
| | 1970 - A nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations. |
| | 1991 - Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners. |
| | 1998 - NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony. |
| | 2003 - Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks provokes controversy in the U.S. by stating that the band was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." |
| | 2006 - Three 6 Mafia made history as they became the first African-American hip-hop group to win an Academy Award for Best Song and also became the first hip-hop artists to ever perform at the ceremony. |
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