03-05-2006, 06:18 AM
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March 5th
1512 ~ Birthday of Gerardus Mercator, Flemish Geographer & Cartographer.
1658 ~ Birthday of Antoine Cadillac, founder of Detroit.
1887 ~ Birthday of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian musician & Composer.
1908 ~ Birthday of Rex Harrison, English actor.
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 ~ Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died at age 73, after 29 years in power.
1982 ~ Comedian John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose in Hollywood at age 33.
1993 ~ Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from athletics for life after failing a drug test for a second time.
1997 ~ North and South Korean representatives met for the first time in 25 years for peace talks.
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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