Year 1558
Francisco Fernandes first used tobacco to make smoke.
MARCH 5
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5 March: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 5 March.
Year 1851
Establishment of the Geological Survey of India.
Year 1931
The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed before the Second Round Table Conference.
Year 1933
A severe recession caused US President Franklin D. Roosevelt to close all banks for a few days and ban financial transactions.
Year 1966
A bill passed to take over a palace of King Wadiyar of Mysore in Bangalore.
Year 1979
Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
Year 1998
Sindhurakshak submarine, brought from Russia, arrived in Mumbai.
Year 2000
The Kaiga nuclear power plant in Karnataka was dedicated to the country by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Born 1512
Gerardus Mercator, a 16th-century geographer, cosmographer, and cartographer.
Born 1911
Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee, the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Air Force.
Born 1913
Gangubai Hangal, an Indian singer of Hindustani classical music.
Born 1916
Biju Patnaik, an Indian politician, aviator, and businessman.
Born 1925
Vasant Sathe, Congress leader, was born
Born 1958
M. Nassar, an Indian film actor.
Born 1959
Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, was born
Born 1963
Saurabh Shukla, an Indian film, theatre, and television actor.
Born 1965
Pargat Singh, hockey legend, was born
Born 1966
Aasif Mandvi, Indian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter was born
Died 1539
Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese admiral and politician, Governor of Portuguese India
Died 1827
Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power.
Died 1849
Mary Lyon, an American pioneer in women’s education.
Died 1953
Joseph Stalin, Former Premier of the Soviet Union.
Died 1968
Narayan Govind Chapekar, Marathi writer from Maharashtra, Editor of Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika passed away
Died 1989
Prithvi Singh Azad, an Indian independence activist, revolutionary, and one of the founder members of the Ghadar Party.
Died 1995
Jalal Agha, an Indian actor, and director.
Died 1996
Pithapuram Nageswara Rao, playback singer of Telugu film industry, passed away
Died 2016
Raymond Tomlinson, a pioneering American computer programmer who implemented the first email program.