March 1

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March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). There are 305 days left in the year.

[edit] Births

• 1104/5 - King Alfonso VII of Castile (died 1157)
• 1445 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (died 1510)
• 1474 - Angela Merici, Italian nun (died 1540)
• 1760 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French revolutionary (suicide) (died 1794)
• 1769 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (died 1796)
• 1807 - Wilford Woodruff, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1898)
• 1810 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French composer and pianist, (died 1849)
• 1821 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (died 1896)
• 1837 - William Dean Howells, American writer, historian, editor, politician, (died 1920)
• 1852 - Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (died 1923)
• 1858 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (died 1918)
• 1865 - Abe Iso, Japanese politician (died 1949)
• 1871 - Ben Harney, American composer and ragtime pianist (died 1938)
• 1876 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (died 1942)
• 1880 - Giles Lytton Strachey British writer (died 1932)
• 1886 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter, graphic artist, and poet (died 1980)
• 1889 - Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese ethicist and philosopher (died 1960)
• 1892 - Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (died 1927)
• 1893 - Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (died 1968)
• 1896 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (died 1960)
• 1901 - Pietro Spiggia, Italian poet
• 1904 - Glenn Miller, American bandleader (died 1944)
• 1904 - Paul Hartman, American actor (died 1973)
• 1906 - Phạm Văn Ðồng, Prime Minister of North Vietnam (died 2000)
• 1910 - David Niven, English actor (died 1983)
• 1914 - Harry Caray, American baseball announcer (died 1998)
• 1914 - Ralph Ellison, American writer (died 1994)
• 1917 - Robert Lowell, American poet (died 1977)
• 1917 - Harry Caray, American sports broadcaster (died 1998)
• 1918 - João Goulart, President of Brazil (died 1976)
• 1918 - Roger Delgado, British actor (died 1973)
• 1920 - Howard Nemerov, American poet (died 1991)
• 1921 - Richard Wilbur, American poet
• 1921 - Richard Wilbur, American poet
• 1921 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Roman Catholic archbishop (died 1983)
• 1922 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel (died 1995)
• 1922 - William Gaines, American publisher, founder of MAD Magazine, (died 1992)
• 1923 - Kuczka Péter, Hungarian writer, poet, and editor (died 1999)
• 1924 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (died 1993)
• 1926 - Alvin "Pete" Rozelle, commissioner of American football (died 1996)
• 1926 - Robert Clary, French actor
• 1927 - Harry Belafonte, American musician and actor
• 1927 - Robert Bork, American law professor
• 1928 - Jacques Rivette, French director
• 1928 - Dr. Seymour Papert, South African mathematician and artificial intelligence researcher
• 1929 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident, (died 1978)
• 1933 - Jakob Maria Mierscheid, fictitious politician in the German Bundestag since 1983
• 1935 - Robert Conrad, American actor
• 1937 - Jed Allan, American actor
• 1942 - Richard Bowman Myers, U.S. general and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• 1943 - Gil Amelio, American businessman and venture capitalist
• 1944 - Roger Daltrey, English musician (The Who)
• 1944 - Mike D'Abo, singer (Mannfred Mann)
• 1944 - John Breaux, U,S. Senator from Louisiana
• 1945 - Dirk Benedict, American film and television actor
• 1946 - Lana Wood, American actress
• 1947 - Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and songwriter
• 1948 - Burning Spear, Jamaican singer and musician
• 1952 - Steven Barnes, science fiction writer
• 1953 - Richard Bruton, Irish politician and economist
• 1954 - Ron Howard, American actor, director, and producer
• 1954 - Catherine Bach, American actress
• 1956 - Timothy Daly, American actor
• 1958 - Bertrand Piccard, Swiss balloonist and psychiatrist
• 1963 - Dan Michaels, musician and record producer
• 1965 - Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey
• 1967 - Aron Winter, Dutch soccer player
• 1969 - Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
• 1969 - Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh drummer (Super Furry Animals)
• 1971 - Tyler Hamilton, American cyclist
• 1973 - Ryan Peake, guitarist (Nickelback)
• 1974 - Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor
• 1980 - Djimi Traore, Malian footballer
• 1981 - Adam LaVorgna, American actor

[edit] Deaths

• 1131 - King Stephen II of Hungary (born 1101)
• 1233 - Count Thomas I of Savoy (born 1178)
• 1244 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, son of Llywelyn the Great (born 1200)
• 1383 - Amadeus VI of Savoy (born 1334)
• 1510 - Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer (born c. 1450)
• 1536 - Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (born 1465)
• 1546 - George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (born 1513)
• 1620 - Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (born 1567)
• 1633 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (born 1593)
• 1643 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (born 1583)
• 1661 - Richard Zouch, English jurist (born 1590)
• 1697 - Francesco Redi, Italian physician (born 1626)
• 1706 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (born 1632)
• 1734 - Roger North, English biographer (born 1653)
• 1757 - Edward Moore, English writer (born 1712)
• 1768 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (born 1694)
• 1773 - Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (born 1700)
• 1777 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (born 1715)
• 1792 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1747)
• 1841 - Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (born 1764)
• 1862 - Peter Barlow, English mathematician (born 1776)
• 1875 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (born 1845)
• 1879 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (born 1825)
• 1884 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (born 1820)
• 1898 - George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (born 1825)
• 1911 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
• 1912 - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (born 1847)
• 1914 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (born 1845)
• 1920 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (born 1842)
• 1920 - Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (born 1880)
• 1922 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (born 1892)
• 1932 - Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinettist
• 1938 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer, war hero, and politician (born 1863)
• 1940 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (born 1878)
• 1943 - Alexandre Yersin, Swiss physician (born 1863)
• 1952 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (born 1873)
• 1966 - Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (born 1903)
• 1970 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (born 1894)
• 1974 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (born 1935)
• 1979 - Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (born 1903)
• 1984 - Jackie Coogan, American actor (born 1914)
• 1988 - Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (born 1907)
• 1991 - Edwin H. Land, American inventor (born 1909)
• 1995 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian television journalist (born 1956)
• 2000 - Dennis Danell, American guitarist (Social Distortion) (born 1961)
• 2003 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, President of El Salvador (born 1917)

[edit] Events

• 1562 - Over 1,000 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
• 1565 - The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
• 1628 - Writs are issued in February by Charles I of England that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
• 1633 - Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
• 1642 - Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine) becomes the first incorporated city in America.
• 1692 - The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts.
• 1700 - Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to reform into the Gregorian calendar, then reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and then introduces the Gregorian Calendar on this date in 1753.
• 1781 - The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
• 1790 - The first United States census is authorized.
• 1803 - Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
• 1805 - Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.
• 1811 - Leaders of the Mameluke dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.
• 1815 - Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
• 1836 - A Convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.
• 1840 - Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France.
• 1845 - US President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
• 1852 - Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
• 1854 - German pyschologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in the canal near Charlottenburg.
• 1867 - Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
• 1872 - Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
• 1873 - E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York, start production of the first practical typewriter.
• 1873 - Henry Comstock discovers the Comstock Lode in Virgina City, Nevada.
• 1886 - Anglo-Chinese School,Singapore was founded by Bishop William Oldham.
• 1896 - Battle of Adowa, in which Ethiopia defended its independence against Italy, begins. The Italian invasion, with 100,000 troops, is defeated, ending the First Italo-Abyssinian War.
• 1896 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
• 1912 - Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
• 1914 - The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
• 1917 - U.S. government releases the plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
• 1918 - German submarine Unterseeboot 19 (U-19) sinks HMS Calgarian off Rathlin Island.
• 1919 - March 1st Movement begins in Korea.
• 1932 - The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
• 1936 - Hoover Dam is completed.
• 1941 - World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact thus joining the Axis powers.
• 1941 - W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S..
• 1946 - The Bank of England is nationalised.
• 1947 - The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
• 1949 - Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
• 1950 - Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by giving them top secret atomic bomb data.
• 1953 - Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke. He dies four days later.
• 1954 - 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.
• 1954 - Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
• 1955 - Allen Fieldhouse at the University of Kansas hosts its first college basketball game.
• 1956 - The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
• 1958 - Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, is appointed Pro-Perfect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.
• 1961 - President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
• 1961 - Uganda becomes self-governing as its first elections held.
• 1962 - American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York.
• 1966 - Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
• 1966 - The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
• 1969 - During a performance at Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium, Jim Morrison of the Doors is arrested for exposing himself during the show.
• 1969 - John Kerry officially leaves active duty in Vietnam.
• 1971 - A bomb explodes in a men's room in the White House: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
• 1971 - Pakistani President Yahya Khan indefinitely postponed the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
• 1972 - The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province.
• 1974 - Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
• 1975 - Colour television transmissions begin in Australia.
• 1978 - Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery.
• 1980 - Voyager 1 probe confirms that Janus (moon of Saturn) exists.
• 1983 - Swatch introduces their first timepieces.
• 1989 - The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1990 - Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• 1994 - Seattle grunge band Nirvana play their last show in Munich, Germany.
• 1995 - Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy.
• 2000 - The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
• 2000 - Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
• 2002 - United States war in Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
• 2002 - 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).
• 2002 - The Peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced with the euro (€).
• 2003 - Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
• 2004 - Terry Nichols is convicted of state murder charges and accomplice to the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh starts his trial in McAlester, Oklahoma.
• 2004 - The TV game show The Price is Right airs its 6,000 episode.
• 2004 - Punycode adopted by the national registrars of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
• 2004 - Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq.