On this day in history, March 5 …

1982: Comedian John Belushi, age 33, is found dead of a drug overdose in a rented bungalow in Hollywood.

1868: The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson begins in the U.S. Senate, with Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase presiding. (Johnson, the first U.S. president to be impeached, is accused of “high crimes and misdemeanors” stemming from his attempt to fire Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.)

1955: Elvis Presley makes his television debut on “Louisiana Hayride” carried by KSLA-TV Shreveport.

1963: Country music stars Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins, along with pilot Randy Hughes (Cline’s manager), die in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee.

1998: NASA scientists say enough water is frozen in the loose soil of the moon to support a lunar base and perhaps a human colony someday.

2002: President George W. Bush slaps tariffs of 8 to 30% on several types of imported steel in an attempt to aid the ailing U.S. industry.

2009: As thousands demonstrate outside, California Supreme Court justices listen to legal arguments over the passage of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage.

2014: President Obama’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Debo Adegbile, is blocked by bipartisan Senate opposition over his legal work at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on behalf of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who’s serving life in prison in the 1981 shooting death of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.