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It's March 5. Here's what happened on This Day in History.
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This Day in History — March 5. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
0:00On this day, March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of American colonists in Boston killing five men and what became known as the Boston Massacre, the incident intensified colonial resentment and helped ignite the movement toward revolution. Also on this day, in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared a nationwide bank holiday to stabilize the collapsing financial system. Also on this day, in 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his iron curtain speech.
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