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| March 1st, 2006 (March 01 2006) | Event | Tarja Halonen is inaugurated as President of Finland for the second and last time. |  | 
| March 1st, 2006 (March 01 2006) | Event | English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station. |  | 
| March 1st, 2006 (March 01 2006) | Death | Peter Osgood, English footballer (born in 1947) |  | 
| March 1st, 2006 (March 01 2006) | Death | Harry Browne, American politician and author (born in 1933) | Harry Browne Quotes | 
| March 1st, 2006 (March 01 2006) | Death | Johnny Jackson, American musician (born in 1951) |  | 
| March 1st, 1986 (March 01 1986) | Event | Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters in Athens, removing the tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI of Pontus. | Lucius Cornelius Sulla Quotes | 
| March 1st, 1986 (March 01 1986) | Birth | Jonathan Spector, American soccer player |  | 
| March 1st, 1976 (March 01 1976) | Birth | Peter F. Bell, Australian rules footballer |  | 
| March 1st, 1976 (March 01 1976) | Birth | Dave Malkoff, American TV News Reporter |  | 
| March 1st, 1966 (March 01 1966) | Event | Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet s surface. |  | 
| March 1st, 1966 (March 01 1966) | Event | The Ba ath Party takes power in Syria. |  | 
| March 1st, 1966 (March 01 1966) | Birth | Susan Auch, Canadian speed-skater |  | 
| March 1st, 1966 (March 01 1966) | Death | Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (born in 1903) |  | 
| March 1st, 1956 (March 01 1956) | Event | The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization. |  | 
| March 1st, 1956 (March 01 1956) | Event | formation of the National People s Army |  | 
| March 1st, 1956 (March 01 1956) | Birth | Timothy Daly, American actor |  | 
| March 1st, 1946 (March 01 1946) | Event | The Bank of England is nationalised. |  | 
| March 1st, 1946 (March 01 1946) | Birth | Lana Wood, American actress |  | 
| March 1st, 1946 (March 01 1946) | Birth | Gerry Boulet, French-Canadian singer (died in 1990) |  | 
| March 1st, 1946 (March 01 1946) | Birth | Elvin Bethea, American football player |  | 
| March 1st, 1936 (March 01 1936) | Event | The Hoover Dam is completed. |  | 
| March 1st, 1936 (March 01 1936) | Event | A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen s Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union. |  | 
| March 1st, 1936 (March 01 1936) | Birth | Monique Begin, French-Canadian politician |  | 
| March 1st, 1936 (March 01 1936) | Birth | Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (died in 1997) |  | 
| March 1st, 1936 (March 01 1936) | Death | Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (born in 1871) |  | 
| March 1st, 1926 (March 01 1926) | Birth | Robert Clary, French-born actor |  | 
| March 1st, 1926 (March 01 1926) | Birth | Pete Rozelle, American commissioner of the NFL (died in 1996) |  | 
| March 1st, 1926 (March 01 1926) | Birth | Cesare Danova, Italian-born American actor (died in 1992) |  | 
| March 1st, 1906 (March 01 1906) | Death | Jose Maria de Pereda, Spanish novelist (born in 1833) |  | 
| March 1st, 1896 (March 01 1896) | Event | Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War. |  | 
| March 1st, 1896 (March 01 1896) | Event | Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity. |  | 
| March 1st, 1896 (March 01 1896) | Birth | Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (died in 1960) |  | 
| March 1st, 1896 (March 01 1896) | Birth | Moriz Seeler, German writer and producer (died in 1942) |  | 
| March 1st, 1886 (March 01 1886) | Event | The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham. |  | 
| March 1st, 1886 (March 01 1886) | Birth | Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet (died in 1980) |  | 
| March 1st, 1876 (March 01 1876) | Birth | Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian IOC president (died in 1942) |  | 
| March 1st, 1836 (March 01 1836) | Event | A Convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico. |  | 
| March 1st, 1706 (March 01 1706) | Death | Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (born in 1632) |  | 
| March 1st, 1546 (March 01 1546) | Death | George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b 1513) |  | 
| March 1st, 1536 (March 01 1536) | Death | Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (born in 1465) |  | 
| March 1st, 1456 (March 01 1456) | Birth | King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (died in 1516) |  | 
| March 1st, 0986 (March 01 0986) | Death | King Lothair of France (born in 941) |  | 
| March 1st, 0286 (March 01 0286) | Event | Roman Emperor Diocletian raises Maximian to the rank of Caesar. |  |