03-05-2009, 10:49 AM
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March 5th
1512 ~ Birthday of Gerardus Mercator, Flemish Geographer & Cartographer.
1658 ~ Birthday of Antoine Cadillac, founder of Detroit.
1946 ~ Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron Curtain speech, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent…”.
1953 ~ Death of Josef Stalin, Soviet dictator.
1953 ~ Birthday of Sergei Prokofiev, Russian Composer.
1970 ~ The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty came into effect.
1993 ~ Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from athletics for life after failing a drug test for a second time.
2000 ~ Death of Lolo Ferrari, French Porn Actress.
2001 ~ 35 Muslim pilgrims were crushed to death during the Hajj pilgrimage.
2004 ~ Martha Stewart was convicted of obstructing justice and lying to the government about why she dumped her Imclone Systems Inc. stock just before the price dropped.
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