President Woodrow Wilson signs the Grand Canyon National Park Act, designating the mile-deep natural wonder as a US national park. In its first year the park will get around 44,000 visitors. It will go on to attract more than 5 million visitors annually.
1616 Roman Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in heliocentrism, which states the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun
March 5th 1770
. Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known to the British as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while under harassment by a mob which was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province o…
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