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On March 5, 1616, Nicolaus Copernicus’s book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, was placed on the Catholic Church’s Index of Forbidden Books. This censorship notwithstanding, the Earth continued to revolve around the Sun. The book had been first published in 1543 in Nuremberg.

| In 1770, the Boston Massacre took place on March 5.

| March 5 is magician Penn Jillette’s birthday. He turns 60 today, beginning his 61st year of life.

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