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

1946In Fulton, Missouri, Britain's Winston Churchill warns about the Soviet 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 descended across the continent."1953The Soviet Union's dictator Joseph Stalin dies at age 73, ending a brutal 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, comedian 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 Blues 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.