MARCH 5
1946:In a speech in Fulton, Mo., with President Harry S. Truman in attendance, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill describes how an “iron curtain has descended across the continent,” referring to the Soviet Union’s increasing dominance of Eastern Europe at the dawn of the Cold War.
1770: British soldiers open fire on a mob of angry colonists outside the Custom House in Boston. Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick and James Caldwell are killed in a skirmish later referred to as the Boston Massacre. Sparked by the colonists’ resentment of the British occupation of the city, the incident is often regarded as having foreshadowed the American Revolution.
1963: At the height of her career, country singer Patsy Cline dies in a plane crash near Camden, Tenn. She was 30 years old.
1770: British soldiers open fire on a mob of angry colonists outside the Custom House in Boston. Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick and James Caldwell are killed in a skirmish later referred to as the Boston Massacre. Sparked by the colonists’ resentment of the British occupation of the city, the incident is often regarded as having foreshadowed the American Revolution.
1963: At the height of her career, country singer Patsy Cline dies in a plane crash near Camden, Tenn. She was 30 years old.
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