Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 5
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March 5: Last day of Maslenitsa in Russia (2006)
- 1770 - Boston Massacre: The pelting of British soldiers with snowballs during a military occupation soon escalated into a riot in Boston.
- 1872 - George Westinghouse patented the air brake for trains to stop more reliably.
- 1918 - Bolshevist Russia moved its capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
- 1946 - Winston Churchill (pictured) used the term "Iron Curtain" in a speech at Westminster College in Missouri, USA.
- 1970 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty entered into force.
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