#iron curtain

A bit of March 5th history…

1558 - Smoking tobacco introduced into Europe by the Spanish

1616 - Astronomical work ‘de Revolutionibus’ by Copernicus placed on the Catholic Forbidden index

1770 - Boston Massacre: British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them; African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die, later held up as early martyr, massacre galvanizes anti-British feelings (pictured)

1836 - Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34 caliber “Texas” model

1946 - Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech in Missouri popularizes the term and draws attention to the division of Europe

1995 - Graves of Tsar Nicholas ii and family found in St Petersburg

2019 - Kylie Jenner is world’s youngest ever billionaire at 21 years old