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Events on March 5

• 1848 The Heidelberg Convention of 51 resolves during the March Revolution, on the proposal of Carl Theodor Welcker, to establish a seven-member committee, which in turn convenes a Preparatory Parliament—an important preliminary decision for the formation of the Frankfurt National Assembly.
• 1853 Heinrich Steinweg founds the piano manufacturing company Steinway & Sons in New York. It now has production facilities in New York City and Hamburg.
• 1931 At the Deutsches Theater Berlin, Carl Zuckmayer's play The Captain of Köpenick is premiered, directed by Heinz Hilpert and starring Werner Krauß in the title role.
• 1933 In the Reichstag election, the NSDAP wins the most votes with a share of 43.9 percent. It is the last Reichstag election in the multiparty system.
• 1946 In a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill uses the term Iron Curtain, behind which the Soviet sphere of influence existed in Europe.
• 1966 The Austrian Udo Jürgens wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Merci, Chérie on his third appearance; the contest is held in Luxembourg that year.
• 1969 The SPD politician Gustav Heinemann is elected by the Federal Assembly as the third Federal President of Germany in the third round of voting.
• 1969 On the third day of the Apollo 9 mission, the astronauts Rusty Schweickart and James McDivitt transfer through a tunnel from the Apollo command module to the lunar module. Thus, humans in space move from one spacecraft to another for the first time.
• 1970 The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which addresses the possession and further proliferation of nuclear weapons as well as the peaceful use of nuclear energy, enters into force.
• 1979 The American space probe Voyager 1 flies past Jupiter and provides many photos of the planet and its moons.
• 1981 ORF Television broadcasts the first episode of the entertainment show Musikantenstadl in cooperation with ARD and SF, hosted by Karl Moik and Hias.
• 2001 The single Yoko Ono by Die Ärzte from the album Runter mit den Spendierhosen, Unsichtbarer! is released – the video for it is considered the shortest music video ever released.

Born on March 5

• 1871 Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-German politician and revolutionary
• 1904 Karl Rahner, German theologian
• 1905 Günther Lüders, German actor
• 1922 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director and poet
• 1940 Sepp Piontek, German football player and coach
• 1942 Felipe González, Spanish jurist and politician
• 1963 Thomas Hermanns, German television presenter, comedian, screenwriter and director
• 1970 John Frusciante, American musician
• 1970 Aleksandar Vučić, Serbian politician
• 2002 Kayla Shyx, German actress and web video producer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „5. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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