^B{^#!16!5 March^N! Feast day of St Piran, St Gerasimus, Saints Adrian and Eubulus, St Eusebius, St John Joseph of the Cross, St Kieran of Saighir, St Phocas of Antioch, and St Virgil of Arles.
^B{1461^B} King Henry VI of England was deposed; he was succeeded by Edward IV. ^B{1770^B} British troops killed five civilians when they fired into a crowd of demonstrators in Boston; the incident became known as the 'Boston Massacre'. ^B{1850^B} English engineer Robert Stephenson's tubular bridge was opened, linking Anglesey with mainland Wales. ^B{1933^B} The Nazi Party won almost half the seats in the elections. ^B{1936^B} The British fighter plane Spitfire made its first test flight from Eastleigh, Southampton. ^B{1946^B} The term 'iron curtain' was first used, by Winston Churchill in a speech in Missouri, US. ^B{1961^B} Alan Shepherd became the first American man in space, taking a 15 minute sub-orbital flight, 115 miles above the Earth.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}King Henry II of England, ^B{1133^B}; Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer, ^B{1512^B}; Augusta Gregory, Irish playwright, ^B{1852^B}; Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer, ^B{1887^B}; Rex Harrison, English actor, ^B{1908^B}; Elaine Page, English musical actress, ^B{1952^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Antonio Corregio, Italian painter, ^B{1534^B}; Friedrich Mesmer, Austrian physician and founder of mesmerism, or 'animal magnetism', ^B{1815^B}; Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, ^B{1827^B}; Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator, ^B{1953^B}; Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, ^B{1953^B}; Tito Gobbi, Italian operatic baritone, ^B{1984^B}.
