March 5 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 291 days remaining until the end of time.
1558 Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes. ¡Gracias, Paco!
1616 Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus", a scientific treatise on circle jerking rocking your world, is placed on Catholic Forbidden index
1836 Samuel Colt manufactures first pistol, .34-caliber "Texas" model. Colt models have improved over time, but they are still judged on their ability to shoot.
1922 "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin
1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in U.S. Army with rank of sergeant
2004 "Starsky and Hutch" opens. Obviously, there are several missed opportunities which could've improved this weak movie.
1922 Pier Paolo Pasolini, gay Italian poet/writer/director/murdered by a hustler
1625 James VI & I, king of Scots (1567-1625) and England (1603-25)/poet/author/has a Bible named after him, is led to the valley of the shadow of death
1770 Crispus Attucks, a slave, is first to take one for American independence during Boston Massacre
1953 Those lips, those eyes: Joseph Stalin, Soviet Leader, visits a warmer gulag a lot further south
1963 Patsy Cline, US country singer (Crazy), falls to pieces—literally
1974 Billy DeWolfe [William Andrew Jones], US actor (Doris Day Show, Good Morning World)/"confirmed bachelor", is meticulously groomed by the mortician
1980 Jay Silverheels [Harold J. Smith], Canadian First Nations actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger), rides alone, kemosabe
2010 Richard Stapley (aka Richard Wyler), probably gay British-born US actor (The Three Musketeers), is target zero today.
When I lived in Boston, most area historians regarded Crispus Attucks as a freedman at the time of his death. He was also part Wampanoag, the main local Native American tibe.
It makes for a cleaner historical narrative to have Attucks a freedman instead of a slave. That helps diminish the supreme irony of a person of color being the first to fall in the Revolution.
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When I lived in Boston, most area historians regarded Crispus Attucks as a freedman at the time of his death. He was also part Wampanoag, the main local Native American tibe.
It makes for a cleaner historical narrative to have Attucks a freedman instead of a slave. That helps diminish the supreme irony of a person of color being the first to fall in the Revolution.
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