March 5th Anniversaries

Santo Domingo.- The events of the  March 5th, are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history. Below, the main events of March 5th:

Saint's Day: Saint John Joseph of the Cross, Saint Theophilus of Caesarea, Saint Photius of Antioch, Saint Adrian of Caesarea

National: March 5th Anniversaries

• 1849. Haitian General Faustino Souluque, at the head of 18,000 men, heads for the border through Mirebelais, while another army from the north under the command of General Bidó, enters Dominican territory through Hincha.
• 1878. Lawyer Cesareo Contreras is sworn in as provisional president of the Republic, replacing Ignacio Ma. González.
• 1863. General José Hungría, leading Spanish troops, defeats the Dominican forces under the command of General Antonio Batista in Sabaneta.
• 2002. The free newspaper El Día circulates for the first time in the country, under the direction of journalist and lawyer Rafael Molina Morillo.
• 2005. The judge of the Third Court of Instruction of the province of Santo Domingo, William Encarnación, orders the imprisonment of friar Meregildo Díaz y Díaz, who was under investigation in connection with the murder of the spouses Joel Alexander Díaz Sarmiento and Yaniris Sánchez Ruiz.
• 2009. A court sentences banker Pedro Castillo to 10 years in prison for alleged irregularities during his time as president of the Board of Directors of Banco del Progreso.
• 2012. Broadcaster, TV producer and former mayor of the National District, Rafael Corporán de los Santos, dies of a heart attack at the age of 75, who was honored two days before.
• 2015. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs orders the suspension of services offered by the four consulates in Haiti, due to the aggressions suffered by the diplomatic legations by Haitian groups, in protest against alleged mistreatment of their compatriots in Dominican territory.

International: March 5th Anniversaries

• 254. Pope Lucius I dies in Rome, who was characterized by prohibiting cohabitation between men and women who were not related and imposed on ecclesiastics not to live with the deaconesses who gave him hospitality out of charitable feelings.
• 1496. King Henry III of England entrusts John and Sebastian Cabot with the discovery of new lands.
• 1933. In Germany, Adolf Hitler wins the parliamentary elections, but does not obtain an absolute majority in Parliament.
• 1946. Sir Winston Churchill warns about the danger of communist expansion and refers to the “Iron Curtain” that divides Europe, thus initiating the so-called “Cold War”.
• 1953. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin dies.
• 1966. In Brazil, the authorities reveal a huge theft of nuclear materials
• 2001. In Santee (California), a 15-year-old kills two students and injures 13 other people at his high school.
• 2008. The Organization of American States (OAS) condemns Colombia for violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ecuador in the incursion on a FARC base.
• 2013. President Hugo Chávez dies in the military hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, at the age of 58, a victim of a sarcoma or pelvic cancer.
• 2014. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announces the breaking of diplomatic and political relations with Panama, in response to the latter's request to convene an extraordinary session of the OAS to analyze the Venezuelan situation.
• 2015. The former president of the Panamanian Supreme Court, Alejandro Moncada Luna, becomes the first magistrate of that body to be convicted of corruption and sent to prison.
• - North Bonneville, Washington state, becomes the first US town to open a store for the sale of marijuana, owned by the City Hall, an initiative designed to promote tourism.
• 2018. Some 3,000 Chinese deputies warmly applaud the reform that offers Xi Jinping, an unlimited term, with the aim of transforming the Asian giant into a world superpower.
• - In Nigeria, an unprecedented outbreak of Lassa fever, a deadly disease that has a high epidemic potential that manifests itself in the form of acute viral hemorrhage, currently without a cure, which occurs through contact with the urine or feces of rodents of the species Mastomys natalensis, causes havoc in this African nation.
• 2019. The Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee of the United States, Jerrod Nadler, asks 60 people related to President Donald Trump for documents about his alleged obstruction of Justice, corruption and abuse of power.
• - The Catholic Church admits that 101 priests have been brought to trial for sexual offenses since 2010 in Mexico, without reporting their status or the outcome of the accusations before the civil authorities.
• 2021. The Venezuelan Government announces the issuance of a new monetary cone with the incorporation of three new banknotes of 200,000, 500,000 and one million bolivars, the latter having a value of 50 cents of a dollar.

Births: March 5th anniversaries

• 1870: Rosa Luxemburg, German Marxist theorist and revolutionary.
• 1922: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer and filmmaker.
• 1940: Dyango, Spanish singer.
• 1942: Felipe González, Spanish politician, prime minister (1982-1996).
• 1948: Francisco Rivera "Paquirri", Spanish bullfighter.
• 1949: Bernard Arnault, French businessman.
• 1956: Adriana Barraza, Mexican actress.
• 1959: Darío Grandinetti, Argentinian actor.
• 1970: John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers).
• 1974: Eva Mendes, American actress.
• 1993: Harry Maguire, English footballer.
• 1999: Madison Beer, American singer

Deaths: March 5th anniversaries

254: Lucius I, Catholic pope between 253 and 254.
1417: Manuel III of Trebizond, Byzantine emperor.
1534: Antonio Allegri da Correggio, Italian painter.
1576: Luis de Requesens, Spanish sailor, governor of Flanders.
1618: John of Östergötland, Swedish prince.
1622: Ranuccio I Farnese, Italian aristocrat.
1656: Sebastián de Rocafull, Spanish mathematician and military engineer.
1794: Ramón de la Cruz, Spanish writer and playwright.
1803: María Isidra de Guzmán y de la Cerda, Spanish teacher.
1827: Pierre Simon Laplace, French mathematician.
1827: Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist.
1893: Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher, critic and historian.
1895: Nikolái Leskov, Russian writer.
1895: Henry Rawlinson, British soldier, diplomat and orientalist.
1908: Andrés S. Viesca, Mexican military.
1916: Valeriano Menéndez Conde y Álvarez, Spanish priest and bishop.
1918: Abdón Porte, Uruguayan footballer.
1925: Michel Verne, French writer and editor.
1925: Clément Ader, French engineer.
1933: Juan Gualberto Gómez, Cuban patriot and journalist.
1947: Alfredo Casella, Italian composer.
1950: Edgar Lee Masters, American poet.
1953: Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter.
1953: Serguéi Prokófiev, Russian composer.
1953: Iósif Stalin, Soviet dictator between 1924 and 1953.
1963: Patsy Cline, country music singer.