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Historical Events on March 5

  • De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

    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.

  • Gandhi-Irwin Pact

    1931

    The British Raj: Gandhi-Irwin Pact is signed.

  • Emergency Banking Act

    1933

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

  • Enabling Act of 1933

    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.

  • Katyn massacre

    1940

    Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.

  • Batavia, Dutch East Indies

    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.

  • Uman-Botoșani Offensive

    1944

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

  • Iron Curtain

    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.

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