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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_5" title="March 5">March 5</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_Feng" title="Lei Feng">Learn from Lei Feng Day</a></b> in China; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Piran%27s_Day" title="St Piran's Day">St Piran's Day</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornwall</a>, England
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811" title="1811">1811</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War" title="Peninsular War">Peninsular War</a>: At the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Barrosa" title="Battle of Barrosa">Battle of Barrosa</a></b>, Anglo-Iberian forces trying to lift the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_C%C3%A1diz" title="Siege of Cádiz">Siege of Cádiz</a> defeated a French attack but could not break the siege itself.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1825" title="1825">1825</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Cofres%C3%AD" title="Roberto Cofresí">Roberto Cofresí</a></b>, one of the last <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_the_Caribbean" title="Piracy in the Caribbean">Caribbean pirates</a>, was apprehended after his flagship <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloop" title="Sloop">sloop</a> <i>Anne</i> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_the_sloop_Anne" title="Capture of the sloop Anne">was captured by authorities</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936" title="1936">1936</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire_prototype_K5054" title="Supermarine Spitfire prototype K5054">The prototype</a> of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire" title="Supermarine Spitfire">Supermarine Spitfire</a></b> flew for the first time.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960" title="1960">1960</a> – Cuban photographer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Korda" title="Alberto Korda">Alberto Korda</a> took his iconic photograph <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrillero_Heroico" title="Guerrillero Heroico">Guerrillero Heroico</a></b></i> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxist</a> revolutionary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981" title="1981">1981</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81" title="ZX81">ZX81</a></b>, a pioneering British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computer" title="Home computer">home computer</a>, was launched by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Research" title="Sinclair Research">Sinclair Research</a>, and went on to sell more than 1.5 million units around the world.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Cornwallis" title="Edward Cornwallis">Edward Cornwallis</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1713); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Kealoha" title="J. R. Kealoha">J. R. Kealoha</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1877); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Akhmatova" title="Anna Akhmatova">Anna Akhmatova</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1966); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailsa_McKay" title="Ailsa McKay">Ailsa McKay</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2014)</p>
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