历史上的今天-Today in History 2010-03-05

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The Boston Massacre¹ takes place, an event that contributes to the outbreak of the American Revolution a few years later. It happens when British soldiers in Boston taunted² by a crowd of American colonists³ open fire and kill five people.

1946In Fulton, Missouri, Britain's Winston Churchill warns about the Soviet⁴ Union's growing influence in eastern Europe after World War II.

"From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended⁵ across the continent."1953The Soviet Union's dictator Joseph Stalin dies at age 73, ending a brutal⁶ rule of nearly 30 years that made Moscow a world superpower.

1982"Over! Did you say 'over'? Nothing is over until we decide it is."In Hollywood, comedian⁷ John Belushi is found dead of a drug overdose. He was 33. Belushi starred in TV's original Saturday Night Live, and the movies Animal House and the Blues⁸ Brothers.

And 1963.

"Crazy, I'm crazy for feeling so lonely."Singer Patsy Cline dies with two other country music performers in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee. She was 30.

Today In History, March 5th, Mike Gracia, the Associated Press.

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