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5 March| 5 March 1588 | France [births and deaths] | Henri I de Bourbon, second Prince of Condé, French Huguenot leader, dies in Saint-Jean-d'Angély, France, of wounds received at the Battle of Coutras the previous year (36). | | 5 March 1626 | France, Spain, Swiss Confederation, Holy Roman Empire [treaties] | The Treaty of Monzon between France and Spain confirms the independence of the Grisons, with guarantees for Catholic worship in this Protestant area. Spain is prohibited from sending troops through the Valtelline Pass in the Alps. | | 5 March 1879 | UK, India [births and deaths] | William Henry Beveridge, British economist who was the chief architect of Britain's welfare policies, born in Rangpur, India (–1963). | | 5 March 1894 | UK [political parties] | The British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone resigns after having split the Liberal Party over Irish Home Rule, and Lord Rosebery, a Liberal Unionist, becomes prime minister, with William Harcourt as leader of the Commons. | | 5 March 1953 | USSR [administration] | Following the death of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, he is succeeded on 6 March by Georgi Malenkov (designated by Stalin), as chairman of the council of ministers. | | 5 March 1953 | USSR [births and deaths] | Joseph Stalin (adopted name, Russian for steel, of Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili), secretary general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1922–53, and premier 1941–53, dies in Moscow, USSR (73). | | 5 March 1974 | UK [political parties] | Harold Wilson forms a minority Labour government in Britain, with James Callaghan as foreign secretary, Denis Healey as chancellor of the Exchequer, Roy Jenkins as home secretary, and Michael Foot as employment secretary. | | 5 March 1978 | China [law and government] | A new Chinese constitution affirms the rule of law, in contrast to the policies under the Cultural Revolution. | | 5 March 1998 | USA [space exploration] | US scientists announce that the Lunar Prospector satellite has detected hydrogen in the polar regions of the Moon, probably in the form of water, frozen in craters which never see the Sun. Scientists estimate that as much as 11 million tonnes of water may be present. |
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