Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 5

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 * 363 – Roman–Persian Wars: Roman emperor Julian and his army set out from Antioch to attack the Sasanian Empire.
 * 1279 – The Livonian branch of the Teutonic Order suffered a great loss when 71 knights died in the Battle of Aizkraukle.
 * 1770 – American Revolution: British soldiers fired into a crowd in Boston, killing five people.
 * 1824 – The First Anglo-Burmese War began.
 * 1943 – World War II: The Gloster Meteor, the Allies' only operational jet aircraft, made its maiden flight.
 * 1963 – American country-music performers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins were killed when their PA-24 crashed shortly after takeoff in Camden, Tennessee.
 * 1966 – BOAC Flight 911 disintegrated and crashed near Mount Fuji shortly after departure from Tokyo International Airport, killing all 113 passengers and 11 crew members on board.
 * Born/died: | Hermann Balk |d|1239| Louis I of Hungary |b|1326| Gerardus Mercator (pictured) |b|1512| Alessandro Volta |d|1827| Marietta Piccolomini |b|1834| Michael von Faulhaber |b|1869| Olav Bjaaland |b|1873| Lat |b|1951| Sergei Prokofiev |d|1953| Joseph Stalin |d|1953| Mary Louise Booth |d|1889| Lena Baker |d|1945| Elaine Paige |b|1948|

March 5: Learn from Lei Feng Day in China; St Piran's Day in Cornwall, England


 * 1811 – Peninsular War: At the Battle of Barrosa, Anglo-Iberian forces trying to lift the Siege of Cádiz defeated a French attack but could not break the siege itself.
 * 1825 – Roberto Cofresí, one of the last Caribbean pirates, was apprehended after his flagship sloop Anne was captured by authorities.
 * 1936 – The prototype (pictured) of the Supermarine Spitfire flew for the first time.
 * 1960 – Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph Guerrillero Heroico of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
 * 1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, was launched by Sinclair Research, and went on to sell more than 1.5 million units around the world.