This Day In History for March 5

1770 - the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who'd been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people.

1849 - Zachary Taylor took the oath of office at his presidential inauguration.

1867 - an abortive Fenian uprising against English rule took place in Ireland.

1868 - the Senate was organized into a Court of Impeachment to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson.

1933 - in German parliamentary elections, the Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote, enabling it to join with the Nationalists to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.

1946 - Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.

1953 - Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died at age 73 after 29 years in power.

1963 - a private plane crash near Camden, Tennessee, claimed the lives of country music performers Patsy Cline, "Cowboy" Copas and "Hawkshaw" Hawkins.

1970 - a nuclear non-proliferation treaty went into effect after 43 nations ratified it.

1982 - comedian John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose in a rented bungalow in Hollywood; he was 33.

1986 - in Lebanon, Islamic Jihad issued a statement saying it had "executed" French hostage Michel Seurat, who had been abducted almost a year earlier.