Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 5

On March 5:

Boston Massacre engraving by Paul Revere

• 1770 - Five protesters were killed in the Boston Massacre.
• 1918 - Soviets moved their capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
• 1946 - Winston Churchill coined the term Iron Curtain.
• 1979 - Gamma ray burst detected from the Large Magellanic Cloud.
• 1981 - Actor John Belushi OD'd and died in Los Angeles.

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