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British troops taunted by a crowd of colonists fired on an unruly mob in Boston and killed five citizens in what came to be known as the Boston Massacre. The fracas between a few angry Boston men and one British sentry ended with five men dead or dying in the icy street corner of King Street and Shrimton’s Lane. Captain Thomas Preston did not order the eight British soldiers under his command to fire into the hostile crowd. The nervous soldiers claimed to be confused by shouts of "Why do you not fire?" coming from all sides. Versions of the event rapidly circulated through the colonies, bolstering public support for the Patriot cause. The British Captain Preston and seven soldiers were defended by John Adams. The captain and five of the soldiers were acquitted, the other two soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter and were branded on the hand with a hot iron. The first colonist killed in the American Revolution was the former slave, Crispus Attucks, shot by the British at the Boston Massacre. The event was later illustrated by Boston engraver Paul Revere.
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Spanish official Don Antonio de Ulloa arrived in New Orleans to take possession of the Louisiana Territory from the French.
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The 1st American Shakespearean production, was an "altered" Richard III in NYC.
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Jacobin troops left Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Giambattista Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
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Francesco Gasparini, composer, was born.
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MAY, 23
- Current / Future Events
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1989 –
Jake Lloyd, American actor
1989 –
Sterling Knight, American actor
1988 –
Bjarni Vi?arsson, Icelandic footballer
1988 –
Trevor Carson, Northern Irish footballer
1987 –
Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
1986 –
Matty Fryatt, English footballer
1985 –
Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
1985 –
Whitney Port, American reality TV star
1984 –
Ryan Crowley, Australian rules footballer
1982 –
Daniel Carter, New Zealand rugby player
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March, 5
- Births
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2008,
Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American professor of computer science (b. 1923)
2006,
Richard Kuklinski, American Mafia hit man (b. 1935)
2004,
Walt Gorney, American actor (b. 1912)
2000,
Lolo Ferrari, French pornographic actress (b. 1962)
1999,
Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
1997,
Samm Sinclair Baker, American diet author (b. 1909)
1996,
Whit Bissell, American actor (b. 1909)
1995,
Vivian Stanshall, English musician (Bonzo Dog Band) (b. 1943)
1995,
Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer (b. 1952)
1993,
Cyril Collard, French author and filmmaker (b. 1957)
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March, 5
- Deaths
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