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March 5

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March 5 is the 64th day of the year(65th inleap years) in theGregorian calendar.There are 301 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

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Up to 1900

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1046–Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he would later describe in his bookSafarnameh.
1279– TheLivonian Order is defeated in theBattle of Aizkraukle by theGrand Duchy of Lithuania.
1496–England KingHenry VII issued letters patern toJohn Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to discover of unknown lands.
1616–Nicolaus Copernicus'bookDe revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by theRoman Catholic Church.
1689–Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is namedSecretary of State for the Northern Department.
1766–Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor ofLouisiana, arrives inNew Orleans.
1770–Boston Massacre: Five Americans, includingCrispus Attucks, are killed by British troops in an event that would help start the AmericanRevolutionary War five years later.
1784–Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is namedPresident of the Board of Trade.
1793–French troops are defeated byAustrian forces andLiège is recaptured.
1811–Peninsular War: A French force under command of Marshal Victor is heavily defeated while trying to prevent an English-Spanish-Portuguesearmy from ending theSiege of Cadiz in theBattle of Barrosa.
1821–James Monroe is inaugurated for a second term asPresident of the United States.
1824–First Burmese War: TheBritish officially declares war onBurma.
1836–Samuel Colt makes the first production-modelrevolver (.34-caliber).
1842– Over 500Mexican troops led byRafael Vasquez invadeTexas, briefly occupySan Antonio and then head back to theRio Grande.
1848–Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance.
1849–Zachary Taylor is inaugurated as the 12thPresident of the United States.
1850– The Britannia Bridge, a railwaybridge, linking the Isle ofAnglesey to mainlandWales across theMenai Strait, opens.
1860–Parma,Tuscany,Modena andRomagna vote in referenda to joinKingdom of Sardinia.
1861– The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as theflag of the Confederate States of America.
1861–Montgomery Blair is named 23rdPostmaster General of the United States byAbraham Lincoln
1868– A court ofimpeachment is organized in theUnited States Senate to hear charges againstPresident Andrew Johnson.
1868–Mefistofele, an opera byArrigo Boito premieres atLa Scala.
1872–George Westinghouse patents theair brake.
1877–Rutherford B. Hayes is publicly inaugurated as the 19thPresident of the United States (he was privately inaugurated onMarch 3).
1878–Manchester United Football Club is founded under the name ofNewton Heath LYR FC.
1888–Samuel Teleki andLudwig von Hoehnal reach Lake Rudolf, present-dayLake Turkana in theGreat Rift Valley. It lies in what is nowKenya.
1894–Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomesFirst Lord of the Treasury.

1901 - 1950

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1904–Nikola Tesla, inElectrical World and Engineer, describes the process ofball lightning formation.
1905–Russian troops begin to retreat fromMukden,Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.
1907– The secondDuma opens inSt. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed byRussian troops.
1912–Italian forces are the first to useairships for military purposes, using them forreconnaissance behindTurkish lines.
1915–World War I:LZ 33, azeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
1916–Spanish football clubReal Club Deportivo Mallorca founded.
1916– Off Santos,Brazil, Spanish luxury linerPrincipe de Asturias hits arock and sinks within fiveminutes, killing 445 people.
1917–Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term asPresident of the United States.
1918–Bolshevist Russia moves the nationalcapital fromPetrograd toMoscow.
1919– The mainrailway station inHelsinki opens.
1924–Shefqet Verlaci becomes Prime Minister ofAlbania.
1929–LanChile airline begins operations.
1931–Daniel Salamanca Urey is named President ofBolivia.
1933–Great Depression:President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing allUnited States banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933– InGermany, theNazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
1936– First flight offighter airplaneSpitfire Type 300.
1940– Members of Soviet politbiuro sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 22000 Polish POW, known also asKatyn massacre.
1943– First flight ofGloster Meteor jet aircraft in Britain.
1946–Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech atWestminster College inFulton, Missouri.
1946– TheHungarian Communists andSocial Democrats co-found the left bloc.
1948– US rocket flies a record 4800 km/h to 126 km height.
1949– TheJharkhand Party is founded inIndia.

1951 - 2000

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1953– BothJosef Stalin andSergei Prokofiev die inSoviet Union.
1955–President of Lithuania,Antanas Merkys dies, after having been imprisoned and deported to theSoviet Union.
1956–Ernie Terrell becomes theWBA worldheavyweight champion, beatingEddie Machen.
1956– "King Kong" first televised.
1958–Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.
1958–Explorer 2 spacecraft launches, fails to reach Earth orbit.
1960–Alberto Korda takes the famous "Guerrillero Heroico"photograph ofChe Guevara.
1960–Elvis Presley is discharged from a 2-year hitch in theUnited States Army.
1963– Country singerPatsy Cline dies in a plane crash.
1964–Atlanta MayorIvan Allen Jr announces a baseball team is moving there.
1964–Ceylon declares emergency crisis due to unrest.
1965– First performance ofWalter Piston's Eighth Symphony.
1966– ABOAC Boeing 707 jet crashes onMount Fuji,Japan killing 124
1966– InLuxembourg,Udo Jürgens wins the eleventhEurovision Song Contest forAustria.
1966–Bob Seagren vaults 5.19m, an indoor world record.
1968– US launchesSolar Explorer B, akaExplorer 37 fromWallops Island to study the Sun.
1970– Anuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1970–Dubnium atoms first detected conclusively.
1971– First live performance ofLed Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."
1973– Two Spanishaircraft collide in mid-air overFrance, killing 68 people.
1973–Donald DeFreeze, futureSymbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes fromVacaville Prison.
1974–Yom Kippur War:Israeli forces withdrew from the west bank of theSuez Canal.
1974– "Candide", byLeonard Bernstein, opens atBroadway Theatre inNYC for 740 performances.
1976– Britishpound falls below $2 US for the first time.
1978–Landsat 3 is launched fromVandenberg AFB in California.
1979– Detection equipment picks up agamma ray burst originating from theLarge Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery ofsoft gamma repeaters.
1979–Voyager 1's closest approach toJupiter, 172000 miles.
1980– Earth satellites recordgamma rays from remnants ofsupernova N-49.
1981–Cannibal Alferd Packer pardoned posthumously.
1982–SNL starJohn Belushi dies of adrug overdose in his hotel room.
1982–Venera 14, aSoviet satellite arrives at the planetVenus.
1983–Bob Hawke becomesAustralian prime minister after defeatingMalcolm Fraser in Australian elections.
1983– In the oldest regular match in internationalrugby union,Scotland achieves its most recent away win overEngland to-date, winning 22–12 at Twickenham Stadium inLondon.
1984– 6,000miners in theUnited Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
1985– The body of undercoverDEA agentEnrique Camarena is found.
1988– Constitution ofTurks and Caicos Islands restored and revised.
1991–Iraq releases allGulf War prisoners
1993–Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is banned from international competition for life after testing positive for banned substances for the second time.
1998–NASA announces that theClementine probe orbiting theMoon has found enough water to support a human colony.
1998– NASA announces the choice ofUnited States Air Force Lt. Col.Eileen Collins as the first woman commander of aspace shuttle mission.
1999–Paul Okalik is elected firstPremier of Nunavut.

From 2001

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2001– InMecca, 35Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annualHajj pilgrimage.
2001– InSantee, California, aschool massacre occurs atSantana High School, leaving 2 dead and 15 wounded.
2002–MTV begins airingThe Osbournes.
2003–University of Manchester andUMIST announce agreement to merge operations.
2003–Natalie Maines of theDixie Chicks provokes controversy in the U.S. by stating that the band was "ashamed thePresident of the United States is fromTexas."
2003–Nature withdraws several papers as a result of theJan Hendrik Schön scandal.
2006– TheBBC's majornature documentary series "PlanetEarth" is broadcast for the first time.
2013–President ofVenezuela Hugo Chávez dies, after aPresidency of over 14 years, of complications fromcancer.

Births

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Up to 1800

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1133–King Henry II of England (d.1189)
1324–King David II of Scotland (d.1371)
1326–King Louis I of Hungary (d.1382)
1512–Gerardus Mercator,Flemish map maker (d.1594)
1563–John Coke, English politician (d.1644)
1575–William Oughtred, Englishmathematician (d.1660)
1585–John George I, Elector of Saxony (d.1656)
1658–Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d.1730)
1685–George Frideric Handel, German composer (d.1759)
1693–Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swisstheologian (d.1754)
1696–Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d.1770)
1703–Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russianpoet (d.1768)
1713–Edward Cornwallis, English military officer (d.1776)
1713–Frederick Cornwallis,Archbishop of Canterbury (d.1783)
1723–Princess Mary of Great Britain (d.1773)
1739–Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, Americanphysician andstatesman (d.1819)
1756–Nathaniel Alexander, 13thGovernor ofNorth Carolina (d.1808)
1794–Jacques Babinet, Frenchphysicist (d.1872)

1801– 1900

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1815–John Wentworth, American politician (d.1888)
1832–Isaac Israel Hayes, Americanphysician and polar explorer (d.1881)
1836–Charles Goodnight, Americancattle rancher (d.1929)
1853–Howard Pyle, American writer and illustrator (d.1911)
1855–Archduchess Sophie of Austria (d.1857)
1858–José Relvas,Prime Minister ofPortugal (d.1929)
1862–Siegbert Tarrasch, Germanchess player (d.1934)
1867–Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier ofQuebec (d.1952)
1869–Michael von Faulhaber, Germancardinal (d.1952)
1870–Frank Norris, American writer (d.1902)
1871–Rosa Luxemburg, German Socialist revolutionary (d.1919)
1873–Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d.1961)
1874–Henry Travers, British actor (d.1965)
1879–William Henry Beveridge, Britisheconomist (d.1963)
1882–Arthur Hussey, Americangolfer (d.1915)
1886–Dong Biwu, Chinese politician (d.1975)
1887–Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d.1959)
1888–Jeff Tesreau, Americanbaseball player (d.1946)
1890–Wilhelm Boden, German politician (d.1961)
1893–Konstantin Muraviev,Prime Minister ofBulgaria (d.1973)
1897–Set Persson, SwedishCommunist politician (d.1960)
1898–Misao Okawa, Japanesesupercentenarian, oldest-living person (d.2015)
1898–Soong May-ling, First Lady of theRepublic of China (d.2003)
1898–Zhou Enlai, Chinese Communist politician (d.1976)
1900–Anna Henderson, Americansupercentenarian (d.2014)

1901 - 1950

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1901–Louis Kahn, Estonian-Americanarchitect (d.1974)
1904–Karl Rahner, Germantheologian (d.1984)
1908–Rex Harrison, British actor (d.1990)
1908–Irving Fiske, American writer andplaywright (d.1990)
1910–Momofuko Ando, Taiwanese businessman (d.2007)
1910–Ennio Flaiano, Italianwriter,journalist andscreenwriter (d.1972)
1912–Jack Marshall, 28thPrime Minister of New Zealand (d.1988)
1914–Philip Farkas, Americanhorn player andteacher (d.1992)
1915–Henry Hicks, Canadian politician, 16thPremier of Nova Scotia (d.1990)
1915–Laurent Schwartz, Frenchmathematician (d.2002)
1918–Milt Schmidt, Canadianice hockey player,coach andmanager
1918–James Tobin, American economist,Nobel laureate (d.2002)
1920–José Aboulker, Algerian surgeon andactivist (d.2009)
1922–Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian director (d.1975)
1923–Andrea Aureli, Italian actor
1924–Jacques Vergès, Frenchlawyer (d.2013)
1927–Jack Cassidy, American actor (d.1976)
1929–Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (d.2015)
1929–J. B. Lenoir, Americanblues guitarist andsinger-songwriter (d.1967)
1930–John Ashley,NHL referee (d.2008)
1930–Del Crandall, Americanbaseball player
1931–Jerrie Cobb, American aviator (d.2019)
1933–Don L. Anderson, Americangeophysicist (d.2014)
1933–Walter Kasper, Germancardinal
1933–Evgeni Vasiukov, Russianchess player (d.2018)
1933–Tommy Tucker, American blues singer and guitarist (d.1982)
1934–Daniel Kahneman, Israelieconomist
1934–James B. Sikking, American actor
1935–Philip K. Chapman, Australianastronaut andscientist
1936–Canaan Banana, 1stPresident ofZimbabwe (d.2003)
1937–Olusegun Obasanjo, two-time formerPresident ofNigeria
1938–Lynn Margulis, Americanevolutionary biologist (d.2011)
1938–Fred Williamson, American football player, actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1940–Josef Piontek, Germanfootballer
1940–John W. Carlin, 40thGovernor ofKansas
1942–Felipe Gonzalez, formerPrime Minister of Spain
1942–Mike Resnick, Americanscience fiction writer
1943–Lucio Battisti, Italiansinger-songwriter andguitarist (d.1998)
1943–Christian Führer, Germanpastor andactivist (d.2014)
1944–Roy Gutman, Americanjournalist
1946–Murray Head, British actor and singer
1947–John Kitzhaber, formerGovernor ofOregon
1948–Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
1948–Eddy Grant, Guyanese-British musician
1948–Jan van Beveren, Dutchfootballer (d.2011)
1948–Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d.1984)
1949–Franz Josef Jung, German politician

1951– 1975

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1952–Alan Clark, British musician (Dire Straits)
1952–Fernando de Piedade Dios dos Santos, formerPrime Minister ofAngola
1953–Michael Sandel, American politicalphilosopher
1954–Steve Prestwich, English-Australianmusician andsongwriter (d.2011)
1955–Penn Jillette, Americanillusionist,comedian,musician andwriter
1956–Marco Paolini, Italianstage actor andwriter
1956–Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter (d.2010)
1957–Mark E. Smith, English musician (d.2018)
1958–Andy Gibb, English-born Australian singer andteen idol (d.1988)
1959–Vazgen Sargsyan,Prime Minister ofArmenia (d.1999)
1959–David Fury, Americantelevision andproducer
1962–The Proclaimers, Scottish singers and musicians
1963–Lotta Engberg, Swedish singer
1963–Joel Osteen, Americantelevangelist
1964–Bertrand Cantat, Frenchsinger-songwriter
1966–Oh Eun-Sun, South Koreanmountaineer
1968–Gordon Bajnai, formerPrime Minister ofHungary
1968–Theresa Villiers, British politician
1970–John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1970–Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress (d.2013)
1972–Brian Grant, Americanbasketball player
1972–Luca Turilli, Italianguitarist andsongwriter
1973–Yannis Anastasiou, Greekfootballer
1974–Kevin Connolly, American actor and comedian
1974–Matt Lucas, British actor and comedian
1974–Jens Jeremies, Germanfootballer
1974–Eva Mendes, American actress
1975–Nelly Arcan, Canadian writer (d.2009)

From 1976

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1976–Sarunas Jasikevicius,Lithuanian basketball player
1977–Wally Szczerbiak, Americanbasketball player
1978–Kimberly McCullough, American actress
1978–Carlos Ochoa, Mexicanfootballer
1981–Andreas Wiig, Norwegian snowboarder
1982–Dan Carter, New Zealandrugby union player
1982–Nikki Walker, Scottishrugby union player
1982–Giorgia Palmas, Italiantelevision personality and model
1984–Aarthi Agarwal, Indianactress (d.2015)
1985–Kenichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
1985–David Marshall, Scottish footballer
1985–Brad Mills, Americanbaseball player
1986–Ellen Whitaker, Britishequestrian showjumper
1987–Anna Chakvetadze, Russiantennis player
1987–Ishmael Miller, English footballer
1988–Bjarni Vidarsson,Icelandic footballer
1989–Kensuke Nagai, Japanesefootballer
1989–Sterling Knight, American actor and singer
1989–Jake Lloyd, American actor
1990–Danny Drinkwater, Englishfootballer
1991–Michael Hayböck, Austrian ski jumper
1993–Harry Maguire, Englishfootballer
1994–Daria Gavrilova, Russiantennis player
1999–Madison Beer, American singer

Deaths

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Up to 1900

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254–Pope Lucius I (b.200)
1534–Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b.1489)
1539–Nuno da Cunha, Portugueseadmiral andpolitician (b.1487)
1592–Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b.1499)
1611–Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord andsamurai (b.1533)
1622–Ranuccio I Farnese,Duke ofParma (b.1569)
1695–Henry Wharton, English writer (b.1664)
1770–Crispus Attucks, American revolutionary figure
1776–Yeongjo of Joseon ofKorea (b.1694)
1778–Thomas Arne, English composer (b.1710)
1815–Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologer (b.1734)
1827–Pierre-Simon Laplace, Frenchmathematician (b.1749)
1827–Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and inventor (b.1745)
1895–Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b.1831)

1901– 2000

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1925–Jonas Jensen, Danishmathematician (b.1859)
1926–Clement Ader, French engineer (b.1841)
1929–David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born Americanengineer,inventor and industrialist (b.1854)
1940–Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b.1868)
1944–Max Jacob, Frenchpoet and writer (b.1876)
1947–Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b.1883)
1950–Edgar Lee Masters, Americanpoet, biographer anddramatist (b.1868)
1953–Herman J. Mankiewicz, Americanscreenwriter (b.1897)
1953–Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (b.1891)
1953–Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b.1879)
1955–Antanas Merkys, Lithuanian politician (b.1888)
1963–Patsy Cline, American singer (b.1932)
1963–Cowboy Copas, American singer (b.1913)
1963–Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer (b.1921)
1965–Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b.1897)
1965–Pepper Martin, Americanbaseball player (b.1904)
1966–Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b.1889)
1967–Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian Prime Minister (b.1882)
1967–Georges Vanier, 19thGovernor General of Canada (b.1888)
1974–Sol Hurok, Americanimpresario (b.1888)
1976–Otto Tief,Prime Minister ofEstonia (b.1889)
1977–Tom Pryce, Welsh racing driver (b.1949)
1980–Winifred Wagner, Germanopera producer (b.1897)
1980–Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b.1912)
1982–John Belushi, American actor (b.1949)
1984–Pierre Cochereau, Frenchorganist andcomposer (b.1924)
1984–Tito Cobbi, Italianbaritone (b.1915)
1990–Edmund Conen, German footballer (b.1914)
1990–Gary Merrill, American actor (b.1915)
1995–Vivian Stanshall, British musician (b.1943)
1999–Richard Kiley, American actor (b.1922)
2000–Lolo Ferrari, French dancer, singer and pornographic actress (b.1963)

From 2001

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2004–Masanori Tokita, Japanesefootballer (b.1925)
2006–Milan Babic, Serbian politician (b.1956)
2008–Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American computer science professor (b.1923)
2010–Philip Langridge, English operatictenor (b.1939)
2011–Alberto Granado, Argentine biochemist, writer and travel companion ofChe Guevara (b.1922)
2012–Robert B. Sherman, Americansongwriter (b.1925)
2013–Hugo Chávez,President ofVenezuela (b.1954)
2013–Paul Bearer, Americanprofessional wrestler and manager (b.1954)
2013–Dieter Pfaff, German actor (b.1947)
2014–Leopoldo Maria Panero, Spanishpoet (b.1948)
2014–Geoff Edwards, American actor and presenter (b.1931)
2015–Edward Egan, Americancardinal (b.1932)
2015–Jim McCann, Irishmusician (b.1944)
2015–Vlada Divljan, Serbian musician (b.1958)
2016–Hassan al-Turabi, Sudanese religious and political leader (b.1932)
2016–Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer (b.1941)
2016–Al Wistert, American football player (b.1920)
2016–Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian cellist (b.1929)
2016–James Douglas, American actor (b.1929)
2017–Anthony C. Beilenson, American politician (b.1932)
2017–Douglas Henry, American politician (b.1926)
2017–Florence S. Jacobsen, American Mormon leader and missionary (b.1913)
2017–Jay Lynch, American cartoonist (b.1945)
2018–Trevor Baylis, British inventor (b.1937)
2018–John Hall Buchanan Jr., American politician (b.1928)
2018–Tomas Aguon Camacho,Northern Marianas Roman Catholic prelate (b.1933)
2018–Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer (b.1925)
2018–André S. Labarthe, French actor and film director (b.1931)
2018–Uri Lubrani, Israeli diplomat and military official (b.1926)
2018–Jam Saqi, Pakistani politician (b.1944)
2018–Helmut Maucher, German businessman (b.1927)
2018–Stephan Tanneberger, Germanoncologist and chemist (b.1935)
2018–Hayden White, American historian (b.1928)
2019–Chu Shijian, Chinese businessman (b.1928)
2019–Jacques Loussier, French businessman (b.1934)

Observances

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Custom Chief's Day (Vanuatu)
Lei Feng Day (China)
National Tree Planting Day (Iran)
St. Piran's Day (Cornwall)

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