March 5
This day in history:
- 2001 – In Mina, Saudi Arabia, 35 pilgrims are killed in a stampede on the Jamaraat Bridge during the Hajj.
- 1991 – Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 109 crashes in Venezuela, killing 45.
- 1953 – Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
- 2012 – Two people are killed and six more are injured in a shooting at a hair salon in Bucharest, Romania.
Births:
- 1527 – Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1603)
- 1943 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
- 1963 – Joel Osteen, American pastor, author, and television host
Deaths:
- 1967 – Georges Vanier, Canadian general and politician, 19th Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
- 1815 – Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (b. 1734)
- 1417 – Manuel III Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1364)
Holidays:
- Learn from Lei Feng Day (China)
- Day of Physical Culture and Sport (Azerbaijan)
- St Piran's Day (Cornwall)
Random Article of the day:
Henkel (surname)
Henkel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Andrea Henkel (born 1977), German biathlete
Caesar Carl Hans Henkel (1837–1913), German-born South African forester, cartographer, painter, soldier and botanist
Christoph Henkel (born 1958), German billionaire businessman
Claudia Henkel (born 1983), South African beauty queen and model
Ernest Henkel (1873–1935), manager of the Metropolitan Opera
Friedrich Karl Henkel (1848–1930), German entrepreneur and company founder
Heike Henkel (born 1964), German former athlete
Heinrich Henkel (born 1896, date of death unknown), German First World War flying ace
Henner Henkel (1915–1942), German tennis player
Herbert L. Henkel, CEO of Ingersoll Rand
Hugo Henkel (1881–1952), German businessman and former CEO of German company Henkel
Joerg Henkel, German engineer
John Spurgeon Henkel (1871–1962), South African botanist and forester
Jost Henkel (1909–1961), German businessman
Kim Henkel, American screenwriter, film director and producer
Kim Henkel, creator of ZTreeWin
Konrad Henkel (1915–1999), German businessman
Manuela Henkel (born 1974), German cross-country skier
Rainer Henkel (born 1964), former freestyle swimmer
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