March 1st Events |
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| March 1st, 2007 (March 01 2007) | Event | Tornadoes swarm across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths were at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama. | |
| March 1st, 2007 (March 01 2007) | Event | "Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots. | |
| 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, 2004 (March 01 2004) | Event | Terry Nichols is convicted of state murder charges and being an accomplice to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. | |
| March 1st, 2004 (March 01 2004) | Event | Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq. | |
| March 1st, 2003 (March 01 2003) | Event | Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security. | |
| March 1st, 2002 (March 01 2002) | Event | U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan. | |
| March 1st, 2002 (March 01 2002) | Event | The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 kilometers (500 miles) above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (9.5 tons). | |
| March 1st, 2002 (March 01 2002) | Event | The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced with the euro (?). | |
| March 1st, 2000 (March 01 2000) | Event | The Constitution of Finland is rewritten. | |
| March 1st, 2000 (March 01 2000) | Event | Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC. | Hans Blix Quotes |
| March 1st, 1995 (March 01 1995) | Event | Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Jozef Oleksy. | |
| March 1st, 1992 (March 01 1992) | Event | Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Yugoslavia. | |
| March 1st, 1990 (March 01 1990) | Event | Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. | |
| March 1st, 1989 (March 01 1989) | Event | The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. | |
| 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, 1980 (March 01 1980) | Event | Voyager 1 probe confirms that Janus (moon of Saturn) exists. | |
| March 1st, 1975 (March 01 1975) | Event | Colour television transmissions begin in Australia. | |
| March 1st, 1974 (March 01 1974) | Event | Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice. | |
| March 1st, 1973 (March 01 1973) | Event | Black September terrorists storm the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan resulting in the 1973 Khartoum diplomatic assassinations. | |
| March 1st, 1972 (March 01 1972) | Event | The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province. | |
| March 1st, 1971 (March 01 1971) | Event | A bomb explodes in a men s room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility. | |
| March 1st, 1971 (March 01 1971) | Event | Pakistani President Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan. | |
| 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, 1962 (March 01 1962) | Event | American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York. | |
| March 1st, 1961 (March 01 1961) | Event | President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps. | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| March 1st, 1961 (March 01 1961) | Event | Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections. | |
| March 1st, 1958 (March 01 1958) | Event | Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia. | |
| March 1st, 1958 (March 01 1958) | Event | Turkish passenger ship Uskudar capsized and sank at Izmit Bay, Kocaeli, Turkey, killing at least 300. | |
| 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, 1954 (March 01 1954) | Event | Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States. | |
| March 1st, 1954 (March 01 1954) | Event | Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives. (See U.S. Capitol shooting incident (1954).) | |
| March 1st, 1953 (March 01 1953) | Event | Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later. | Joseph Stalin Quotes |
| March 1st, 1950 (March 01 1950) | Event | Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data. | |
| March 1st, 1949 (March 01 1949) | Event | Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch. | |
| March 1st, 1947 (March 01 1947) | Event | The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations. | |
| March 1st, 1946 (March 01 1946) | Event | The Bank of England is nationalised. | |
| March 1st, 1943 (March 01 1943) | Event | World War II: Battle of Bismarck Sea begins. | |
| March 1st, 1941 (March 01 1941) | Event | World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers. | |
| March 1st, 1941 (March 01 1941) | Event | W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S.. | |
| March 1st, 1939 (March 01 1939) | Event | Japanese Imperial Army ammunition dump exploded at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94. | |
| 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, 1932 (March 01 1932) | Event | The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped. | |
| March 1st, 1919 (March 01 1919) | Event | March 1st Movement begins in Korea. | |
| March 1st, 1917 (March 01 1917) | Event | U.S. government releases the plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public. | |
| March 1st, 1914 (March 01 1914) | Event | The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union. | |
| March 1st, 1912 (March 01 1912) | Event | Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane. | |
| 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, 1886 (March 01 1886) | Event | The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham. | |
| March 1st, 1878 (March 01 1878) | Event | First winter ascent of Aneto | |
| March 1st, 1873 (March 01 1873) | Event | E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter. | |
| March 1st, 1872 (March 01 1872) | Event | Yellowstone National Park is established as the world s first national park. | |
| March 1st, 1867 (March 01 1867) | Event | Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital. | |
| March 1st, 1854 (March 01 1854) | Event | German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg. | |
| March 1st, 1852 (March 01 1852) | Event | Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. | |
| March 1st, 1847 (March 01 1847) | Event | The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment. | |
| March 1st, 1845 (March 01 1845) | Event | President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas. | John Tyler Quotes |
| March 1st, 1840 (March 01 1840) | Event | Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France. | |
| 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, 1815 (March 01 1815) | Event | Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba. | |
| March 1st, 1811 (March 01 1811) | Event | Leaders of the Mameluke dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali. | Muhammad Ali Quotes |
| March 1st, 1805 (March 01 1805) | Event | Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate. | |
| March 1st, 1803 (March 01 1803) | Event | Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state. | |
| March 1st, 1790 (March 01 1790) | Event | The first United States census is authorized. | |
| March 1st, 1781 (March 01 1781) | Event | The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation. | |
| March 1st, 1700 (March 01 1700) | Event | Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian Calendar on this date in 1753. | Julian Quotes |
| March 1st, 1692 (March 01 1692) | Event | Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials. | |
| March 1st, 1642 (March 01 1642) | Event | Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine) becomes the first incorporated city in the USA. | |
| March 1st, 1633 (March 01 1633) | Event | Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu. | Cardinal Richelieu Quotes |
| March 1st, 1628 (March 01 1628) | Event | Writs are issued in February by Charles I of England mandating that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date. | |
| March 1st, 1593 (March 01 1593) | Event | The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden. | |
| March 1st, 1565 (March 01 1565) | Event | The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded. | |
| March 1st, 1562 (March 01 1562) | Event | Over 1,000 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion. | |
| March 1st, 1457 (March 01 1457) | Event | The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderlandied in It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination. | |
| March 1st, 0317 (March 01 0317) | Event | Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made Caesares | |
| March 1st, 0293 (March 01 0293) | Event | Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesares, thus beginning the Tetrarchy. | |
| March 1st, 0286 (March 01 0286) | Event | Roman Emperor Diocletian raises Maximian to the rank of Caesar. | |
