- 64th Day of 2015 301 Remaining
- Spring Begins in 15 Days
- Sunrise:6:34
- Sunset:6:07
- 11 Hours 33 Minutes
- Moon Rise:6:24pm
- Moon Set:6:25am
- Full Moon @ 10:06am
As the temperature begins to warm and the ground begins to thaw, earthworm casts appear, heralding the return of the robins. The more northern tribes knew this Moon as the Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter; or the Full Crust Moon, because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night. The Full Sap Moon, marking the time of tapping maple trees, is another variation. To the settlers, it was also known as the Lenten Moon, and was considered to be the last full Moon of winter.
- Tides
- High:10:23am/11:15pm
- Low:4:30am/4:47pm
- Rainfall:
- This Year to Date:17.01
- Last Year:8.39
- Avg YTD:18.86
- Annual Avg:23.80
- Holidays
- Name Tag Day
- National Cheese Doodle Day
- Absinthe Day
- Customs Chiefs Day-Vanuatu
- National Tree Planting Day-Iran
- On This Day
- 1623 --- The first alcohol temperance law in the colonies was enacted in Virginia.
- 1770 --- A mob of American colonists gathers at the Customs House in Boston and begins taunting the British soldiers guarding the building. The protesters, who called themselves Patriots, were protesting the occupation of their city by British troops, who were sent to Boston in 1768 to enforce unpopular taxation measures passed by a British parliament that lacked American representation. British Captain Thomas Preston, the commanding officer at the Customs House, ordered his men to fix their bayonets and join the guard outside the building. The colonists responded by throwing snowballs and other objects at the British regulars, and Private Hugh Montgomery was hit, leading him to discharge his rifle at the crowd. The other soldiers began firing a moment later, and when the smoke cleared, five colonists were dead or dying—Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, and James Caldwell—and three more were injured. Crispus Attucks, an African American, was the first to fall, the deaths of the five men are regarded by some historians as the first fatalities in the American Revolutionary War. The British soldiers were put on trial, and patriots John Adams and Josiah Quincy agreed to defend the soldiers in a show of support of the colonial justice system. When the trial ended in December 1770, two British soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter and had their thumbs branded with an “M” for murder as punishment.
- 1845 --- The U.S. Congress appropriated $30,000 to ship camels to the western U.S.
- 1867 --- An abortive Fenian uprising against English rule took place in Ireland.
- 1918 --- The Soviets moved the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow.
- 1922 --- "Annie Oakley" (Phoebe Ann Moses) broke all existing records for women's trap shooting. She hit 98 out of 100 targets.
- 1933 --- U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered a four-day bank holiday in order to stop large amounts of money from being withdrawn from banks.
- 1933 --- The Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections, enabling it to join with the Nationalists to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.
- 1936 --- 'Mutiny on the Bounty' is voted 'Outstanding Production' (Best Picture) at the 8th Academy Awards. The story of the mutiny against Captain Bligh on the English ship 'Bounty' when it was sailing from Tahiti to bring back breadfruit trees.
- 1946 --- Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo.
- 1953 --- Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin died. He had been in power for 29 years.
- 1963 --- Country music singer Patsy Cline died in a plane crash near Camden, Tenn., at age 30.
- 1963 --- The Hula-Hoop, a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad across America when it was first marketed by Wham-O in 1958, is patented by the company’s co-founder, Arthur “Spud” Melin. An estimated 25 million Hula-Hoops were sold in its first four months of production alone.
- 1966 --- A jet breaks apart in mid-air and plummets into Japan’s Mount Fuji. All 124 people on board the aircraft were killed. The plane’s pilot apparently flew close to the mountain in order to give the passengers a better view of it, and severe turbulence literally blew the plane apart.
- 1966 --- Near the very height of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, on March 5, 1966, American popular-music fans made a #1 hit out of a song called “The Ballad Of The Green Berets” by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler.
- 1969 --- The magazine "Creem" was published for the first time.
- 1969 --- The Dade County Sheriff’s Office issues an arrest warrant for Doors’ lead singer Jim Morrison. He is charged with a single felony count and three misdemeanors for his stage antics at a Miami concert a few days earlier.
- 1977 --- The Dial-a-President radio program, featuring President Jimmy Carter and CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite, airs for the first time. The brainchild of Cronkite and CBS, the March 5 show was a test-run to see if the program could be successful. (Carter’s official papers refer to the show as Ask President Carter.)
- 1984 --- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cities had the right to display the Nativity scene as part of their Christmas display.
- 1993 --- Sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from racing for life by the Amateur Athletic Association after testing positive for banned performance-enhancing substances for a second time.
- 2002 --- MTV began airing "The Osbournes." The reality television show followed the daily activities of rock musician Ozzy Osbourne and his family.
- 2004 --- Martha Stewart, business magnate, cookbook author and TV personality, was convicted of obstructing justice and lying about a well timed stock sale just before the priced plummeted.
- Birthdays
- Rex Harrison
- Heitor Villa-Lobos
- Fred Williamson
- Samantha Eggar
- Eddy Grant
- Marsha Warfield
- Penn Jillett
- Teena Marie
- Andy Gibb
- Eva Mendes
- Momofuku Ando
