Wednesday, March 5th, 2014 TODAY IN HISTORY: 1807 - 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethovens 4th Symphony in B 1821 – James Monroe inaugurated for his second US presidential term 1824 - First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma 1836 - Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber Texas model 1842 - Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande 1849 - Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th US president 1877 - Rutherford B Hayes inaugurated as 19th US president 1907 - 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired 1922 - Nosferatu premieres in Berlin 1924 - Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM 1931 - Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact 1933 - Germanys Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes) 1946 - Winston Churchills Iron Curtain speech (Fulton Missouri) 1968 - US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun 1970 - Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect 1979 - Voyager Is closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles) 1982 - Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data 1995 - Graves of Tsar Nicholas II and family found in St Petersburg 2006 - 78th Academy Awards - Crash, Philip Seymour Hoffman & Reese Witherspoon win 2013 - The Dow Jones surpasses its 2007 pre-financial crisis levels for the first time 2013 - Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás Maduro assumes the presidency after the death of Hugo Chavez TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: 1824 - Elisha Harris, US, physician/found American Public Health Assoc 1871 - Maria do Carmo Geronimo, Brazilian lives to be at least 126 1936 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003) 1938 – Fred Williamson (football player, actor in From Dusk Till Dawn) 1948 - Eddy Grant, Guyana, reggae performer (Electric Avenue) 1950 - Eugene Fodor, Turkey Creek CO, violinist (1974 Tchaikovsky Award) 1963 – Joel Osteen (religious leader) 1969 - MC Solaar, French rapper 1970 - John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 1971 - Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American musician (Bloodhound Gang) 1974 - Brad Schumacher, US, 400m/800m freesytyle (Olympics-gold-96) 1974 - Eva Mendes, American actress 1975 - Niki Taylor, model (Elle, Marie Claire) 1975 - Jolene Blalock, American actress (Stargate SG-1, Star Trek: Enterprise, CSI)
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