TIH 3/5

1770 The Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers, taunted by a crowd of colonists, opened fire, killing five people.


1867 An abortive Fenian uprising against English rule took place in Ireland.

1933 The Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections, enabling it to join with the Nationalists to gain a slender majority in the Reichstag.