On this day: March 5

POSTED: 10:05 AM PST Mar 01, 2013    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Mar 04, 2013 

The Boston Massacre riles up American colonists, Che strikes a famous pose, Elvis is discharged, a plane crash kills Patsy Cline, and John Belushi overdoses, all on this day.

OTD March 5 - Che
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1960: Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Havana, Cuba, at a memorial service for victims killed a day earlier when the French freighter La Coubre exploded while docked in Havana Harbor.

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