On March 5th in history: In 1512 Gerhard Mercator, Flemish cartographer, was born. In 1616 Nicolaus Copernicuss book “De revolutionibus Orbium coelestium” was banned by Catholic Church. In 1770 in Boston 5 American were killed by British troops, an event that contributed to the outbreak of the American Revolution. In 1829 John Adams, last survivor of the mutiny on the Bounty, died on Pitcairn Island. In 1836 Samuel Colt patented the first production-model revolver. In 1871 Rosa Luxemburg was born. In 1878 the English football club now known as Manchester United was founded under the name Newton Heath LYR FC. In 1885 the Sailors Union of the Pacific (SUP) was founded in San Francisco. In 1898 Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, was born. In 1904 Alexei Kosygin, Soviet politician, was born. In 1906 the US Army used overwhelming force to defeat native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo in the Philippines – 1,000 Moros were massacred. In 1912 the Brisbane general strike ended with a partial victory for workers. In 1913 Joe Hills song “There is power in a union” first appeared in the IWWs “Little Red Song Book”. In 1920 José Aboulker, Algerian Resistance fighter during World War II, was born. In 1922 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director, was born. In 1925 12,000 Cape Breton coal miners walked out on Besco steel corp demanding the return of wages to 1922 levels. In 1930 International Unemployment Day was organised by the Comintern to protest against mass unemployment. In 1946 Winston Churchill coined the phrase “Iron Curtain” during a speech at Westminster College, Missouri. In 1953 Joseph Stalin died. In 1953 Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, died. In 1965 an uprising started in Bahrain against the British colonial presence. In 1966 Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet, died. In 1978 President Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley Act to end a United Mine Workers of America strike started in December 1977. In 1984 6,000 British miners at Cortonwood Colliery in Yorkshire began a strike tio protect jobs – it quickly escalated into a national strike. In 2013 Hugo Chavez died.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 08:45:09 +0000
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