On March 5
On March 5, the Human Saga records one pivotal event: Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech at Fulton (1946).
On this day
Speaking at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on 5 March 1946, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered an address officially titled "The Sinews of Peace." In it he warned that "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste…
Also this week in history (Mar 2 – Mar 8)
On 3 March 1861 (19 February in the Russian Julian calendar) Tsar Alexander II issued the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing more than 23 million privately held serfs and inaugurating the most far-reaching reform of nineteenth-century Russia.
On 8 March 1010 CE the poet Abolqasem Ferdowsi completed the Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), the national epic of Greater Iran, after roughly three decades of work begun around 977 CE in his native Tus in the Khorasan region.
On 6 March 1869 (Old Style; 18 March by the Gregorian calendar) a paper by the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev on 'The Dependence between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements' was read to the Russian Chemical Society in St…
On 6 March 1957 the Gold Coast became the independent state of Ghana, the first sub-Saharan African colony to win majority-rule independence from a European power.
On 3 March 1918 the Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), formally ending Russia's participation in World War I.