March 5

On this day, March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of American colonists

in Boston killing five men and what became known as the Boston Massacre, the incident intensified

colonial resentment and helped ignite the movement toward revolution. Also on this day,

in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared a nationwide bank holiday to stabilize the collapsing

financial system. Also on this day, in 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his iron curtain speech.