March 05

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1770	Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by John Adams.	A Poor Excuse	Sick and Tired	Right Brigade / A Poor Excuse Split
2	1872	George Westinghouse patents the air brake.	Refused	Pump the Brakes	This Just Might Be the Truth
3	1933	Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.	Blur	Banck Holiday	Parklife
4	1946	Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.	The Olivia Tremor Control	Curtain Call	Presents: Singles and Beyond
5	1975	First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club	Karl Blau	Computer	Clothes Your i's
6	1979	Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.	Beck	Gamma Ray	Modern Guilt

(Historical facts about March 05 are from Wikipedia.)