On This Day, 5 March

5 March AD 2019

20 February AM 7527

12th Indiction

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Feast of St Ciarán of Saigir (5th century – c. 530),  one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland

Feast of St Piran, Patron of Cornwall and of tin-miners

• 254 – Pope Lucius I died (b. 200)

• 1133 – Henry II of England born (d. 1189)
• 1324 – David II of Scotland born (d. 1371)
• 1326 – Louis I of Hungary born (d. 1382)
• 1417 – Manuel III Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond, died (b. 1364)

• 1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
• 1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published, because of Galileo. 
• March 5, 1648 - Charles Huault de Montmagny c1583-c1653 convenes First sitting of the Council of New France. Québec, Québec
• March 5, 1764 - Governor James Murray requires inhabitants of Québec to declare their French money; before May 1. Québec, Québec
• 1853 – Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator, the man who began my process of conversion to the True Faith, born (d. 1911)
• 1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referenda to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
• 1869  – Michael, Cardinal von Faulhaber, fierce opponent of Hitler, born (d. 1952)
• 1904 – Karl Rahner, German heretic, born (d. 1984)
• 1940 – Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
• March 5, 1943 - British and Canadian bombers start Battle of the Ruhr; year-long bombing offensive against Germany. Germany
• 1953 – Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after being hit by a cerebral haemorrhage, and went to meet his master in hell!
• 1967 - Georges-Philias Vanier 1888-1967 dies at age 78; soldier, Royal 22ème Regiment; Canada's 19th Governor-General 1959-67, and the first French Canadian to hold the position. His Cause for Beatification (along with his wife Pauline) has been introduced.
• 2013 - Hugo Chavez, communist dictator of Venezuela, died, on the 60th anniversary of the death of his role model, the mass murderer Joseph Stalin and went to meet him in hell.