Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 5
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On March 5:
- 1770 - Five colonists were killed in the Boston Massacre.
- 1918 - Soviets moved their capital to Moscow from Petrograd.
- 1946 - The term "Iron Curtain" was coined by Winston Churchill.
- 1979 - The first soft gamma repeater was discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud.