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Historical Events on March 5

  • Nicolaus Copernicus

    1616

    Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.

  • British Raj

    1931

    The British Raj: Gandhi-Irwin Pact is signed.

  • Great Depression

    1933

    Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.

  • Adolf Hitler

    1933

    Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.

  • World War II

    1942

    World War II: Japanese forces captures Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which left undefended after the withdrawal of KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.

  • World War II

    1944

    World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman-Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.

  • Winston Churchill

    1946

    Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.

  • Yom Kippur War

    1974

    Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.

  • Haifa

    2003

    In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.

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