Monday, March 05, 2012

TODAY IN HISTORY

Oakley
MARCH 5
1922:Sixty-two-year-old sharpshooter Annie Oakley shoots 98 out of 100 clay pigeon targets from 16 yards away, at the Pinehurst Gun Club in North Carolina, breaking all existing women's trapshooting records.

1770: Five American colonists — Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick and James Caldwell — are killed in a skirmish with British soldiers outside of the Custom House in Boston. The event, spurred by the colonists' resentment of the British occupation of Boston, would become known as the Boston Massacre.

1982: Comedian, actor and former Saturday Night Live cast member John Belushi is found dead of a cocaine and heroin overdose at the Chateau Marmont hotel in West Hollywood.
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