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Latest revision as of 04:22, 23 January 2026
This is a list of selected March 5 anniversaries that appear in the “On this day” section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Before doing so, please review the selected anniversaries guidelines. If your suggestion is potentially controversial or relates to a day currently or soon to appear on the Main Page, post it on the talk page instead.
Please note:
- Events listed on the Main Page are selected based on article quality and to provide a diverse range of topics, rather than solely on the importance or significance of the events.
- Only four or five events are featured each day; therefore, not all important or significant events can be included.
- An event is generally excluded if it is already the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
To report an error in content currently on the Main Page, see Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors. If a listed event is inaccurate, please first seek consensus and update the corresponding article before making changes here.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1496 – King Henry VII of England issued letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore undiscovered lands. | citations needed |
| 1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus‘s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, describing his heliocentric theory of the Solar System, was prohibited by the Roman Catholic Church. | refimprove section |
| 1850 – The Britannia Bridge, a tubular bridge of wrought iron rectangular box-section spans crossing the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, opened. | lots of CN tags (7) |
| 1872 – American entrepreneur and engineer George Westinghouse patented the air brake, allowing trains to stop more reliably. | needs more footnotes |
| 1918 – Bolshevist Russia relocated its capital from Petrograd to Moscow. | refimprove |
| 1946 – The term “Iron Curtain“, describing the symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas during the Cold War, was popularized by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. | refimprove section |
| 1970 – The international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to limit the spread of nuclear weapons entered into force. | refimprove section, needs update |
| 1975 – Computer hobbyists in Silicon Valley held the first meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club (founder pictured), whose members went on to have great influence on the development of the personal computer. | Orange-tagged since March 2022 for additional citations |
| 1999 – Paul Okalik was elected as the first premier of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. | refimprove section |
Eligible
March 5: Learn from Lei Feng Day in China; St Piran’s Day in Cornwall, England
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