What happend on 5th March

04.03
06.03
1924

Shefqet Verlaci becomes Prime Minister of Albania.

1918

Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.

1917

Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.

1916

Spanish football club Real Club Deportivo Mallorca founded.

1915

World War I: LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.

1912

Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.

1907

The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.

1905

Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.

1904

Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of ball lightning formation.

1894

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.