Once Upon A Time – March 5 – 1496 – English King Henry VII Grants John Cabot Commission To Explore For New Lands

363 Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign that brings about his own death

1046 Persian scholar Naser Khosrow begins the 7 year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama

1496 English King Henry VII grants John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) a commission to explore for new lands

1770 Boston Massacre (Incident on King Street): British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them. African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die; later held up as early black martyr. Massacre galvanizes anti-British feelings.

1946 Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech in Fulton, Missouri, popularizes the term and draws attention to the division of Europe

Historical Events Today
Today in Film & TV
2002 American reality TV program “The Osbournes” featuring family of Ozzy Osbourne premieres on MTV

Today in Music
1971 “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin first played live at Ulster Hall, Belfast by Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones

Today in Sport
1949 Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30

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1558 Smoking tobacco introduced into Europe by Spanish physician Francisco Fernandes

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1841 1st continuous filibuster in US Senate began, lasting until March 11