What happened on 5 March?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1946 Iron Curtain speech Churchill's Fulton, Missouri address declares an Iron Curtain across Europe.
2. 1824 Anglo-Burmese Wars Three wars over six decades dismantle the Konbaung kingdom, ending with the fall of Mandalay and Burma's annexation to British India.
3. 1770 Boston Massacre British soldiers fire on a Boston crowd; five colonists killed; Paul Revere's engraving inflames colonial opinion.
4. 1942 Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad) Composed during the German siege; symbol of Soviet resistance.
5. 1931 Gandhi-Irwin Pact Agreement ending the first civil-disobedience campaign; political prisoners freed and Gandhi joins the Round Table Conference.
6. 1175 BCE Athena goes to Ithaca Odyssey 1: the council of the gods, and Athena in disguise at the door of a house eaten hollow by 108 suitors — the poem's present begins.
7. 2006 Three 6 Mafia win the Academy Award for Best Original Song 'It's Hard out Here for a Pimp' from Hustle & Flow.
8. 1960 Guerrillero Heroico At a Havana memorial rally Alberto Korda snaps Che staring out under his starred beret; the photograph becomes perhaps the most reproduced image in the world.
9. 1894 Lord Rosebery's premiership His government introduces death duties; Rosebery wins the Derby twice and finds the job miserable.