Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 5

March 5:

Winston Churchill

• 1770 - Boston Massacre: The pelting of snowballs at British soldiers during a military occupation soon escalated into violence in Boston.
• 1824 - Britain officially declared war on Burma, beginning the First Anglo-Burmese War.
• 1872 - George Westinghouse patented the air brake for trains to stop more reliably.
• 1918 - Bolshevist Russia moved its capital to Moscow from Petrograd.
• 1946 - The term "Iron Curtain" was first used in a speech by Winston Churchill.

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