March 5, 1959 (Thursday)
- At Ankara, the United States agreed to defend the remaining members of the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) in case of attack, signing bilateral defense agreements with Iran, Turkey and Pakistan.
- In Wrightsville, Arkansas, a dormitory fire at a dormitory for the Arkansas Training School for Negro Boys killed 21 boys. The doors had been locked, and 47 boys who survived the fire had kicked their way through heavy metal screens to escape.
- The Federal Reserve Bank raised the interest rate 1/2 a point to 3%
- U.S. Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy told reporters that "a surprise with missiles in the forseeable future is almost impossible".
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“What if there’s nothing up there at the top?
Where are the captains that govern mankind?
What tears down a tree that has nothing within it?
A blast of wind, O a marching wind,
March wind, and any old tune,
March march and how does it run.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)