05. 03

1616 - The ban on all texts, consonants or supporting the Copernican system. Podsuetilis Congregation of the Index. The anniversary, however. Curiously, the Catholic Church, absorbed in the struggle with the Reformation, for a long time belonged to the work of the great astronomer (and the first edition dates back to 1543 year) rather quietly. And then - much more fun to cut and sent to the fires Huguenot than to delve into the meaning of mathematical calculations. However, careful reading, church smelled of fried - the Earth - according to these calculi - is not the center of the Universe. As a result - that the experts reached a verdict on March 5 - the book of Copernicus vnostisya in banned list because it contradicts Scripture. By the way, the trial of Galileo is to a large extent a consequence of a violation of this prohibition.
Two centuries passed before the Vatican lifted the ban. For further pull was stupid ...

1711 - Peter I establish a Senate, the highest legislative body. Degree of freedom? Well, as the supreme and legislative ... In the absence of the king

1770 - Boston Massacre. The colonists dissatisfied with the tax policy of the mother country, to protest. The soldiers opened fire. Three shot, two fatally wounded. As a result - the city removed all the British military. Slaughterhouse can be considered to a large extent the forerunner of "Boston Tea Party" in 1773, when as in the Gulf were pointedly dumped bales with tea arrived in England

1946 - Churchill christened line postwar division of Europe "Iron Curtain." Fulton, United States, his speech: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic on the continent down the iron curtain ...".