Today's Holidays in March 5

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2003 — In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing. ↗
• 1984 — Six thousand miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery. ↗
• 1982 — Soviet probe Venera 14 landed on Venus. ↗
• 1981 — The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world. ↗
• 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... ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1994 — Daria Gavrilova, Russian tennis player
• 1994 — Kyle Schwarber, American baseball player
• 1993 — El-Hadji Ba, French footballer
• 1993 — Joshua Coyne, American violinist and composer
• 1993 — Harry Maguire, English footballer