📜 This Day in History
March 5
363Roman–Persian Wars: Roman emperor Julian and his army set out from Antioch to attack the Sasanian Empire.- 1770American Revolution: British soldiers fired into a crowd in Boston, killing five people.
- 1824The First Anglo-Burmese War began.
- 1943World War II: The Gloster Meteor, the Allies' only operational jet aircraft, made its maiden flight.
- 1963American country-music performers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins were killed when their PA-24 crashed shortly after takeoff in Camden, Tennessee.
- 1981The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, was launched by Sinclair Research, and went on to sell more than 1.5 million units around the world.
