March 1
Appearance
March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). There are 305 days remaining.
Events
- 29 BC - Horace writes the ode Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen.
- 286 - Maximian proclaimed junior Roman emperor.
- 293 - Constantius Chlorus and Galerius proclaimed junior Roman emperors.
- 492 - Pope Gelasius I succeeds Pope Felix III
- 499 - Pope Symmachus makes Antipope Laurentius bishop of Nocera in Campania.
- 705 - Pope John VII succeeds Pope John VI
- 965 - Pope Benedict V is put in place of Pope Leo VIII by the people
- 1524/5 - Giovanni da Verrazano lands near Cape Fear (approx. date is March 1)
- 1562 - Over 1,000 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Vassy, France marking the start of the First War of Religion.
- 1565 - the city of Rio de Janeiro is founded
- 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 Bay Colony with the charging of four women with witchcraft.
- 1700 - Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to reform into the Gregorian calendar.
- 1712 - Sweden reverts to the Julian calendar as March 1 follows on February 30.
- 1753 - Sweden introduces the Gregorian Calendar as March 1 follows on February 17.
- 1781 - The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
- 1793 - John Langdon becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate until March 3
- 1790 - The first United States census is authorized
- 1799 - Federalist James Ross becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate
- 1803 - Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state, retroactive from August 7, 1953.
- 1811 - Leaders of the Mameluke dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Mohammed Ali.
- 1815 - Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
- 1831 - Democrat Samuel Smith becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate until December 4
- 1836 - Convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos to deliberate independence from Mexico
- 1840 - William Hobson, first governor of New Zealand suffers a stroke
- 1840 - Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France
- 1843 - Walter Forward ends his term of office as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, serving under President John Tyler
- 1845 - President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
- 1851 - Victor Hugo gives speech at the French national assembly and uses the phrase United States of Europe several times
- 1854 - German pyschologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears, two years later his remains are found in the canal near Charlottenburg
- 1864 - Alejandro Mon Menéndez takes office as Prime Minister of Spain
- 1867 - Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state.
- 1867 - 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.
- 1881 - English author James Spedding knocked down by a London cab, dies 8 days later from erysipelas
- 1895 - William L. Wilson is appointed United States Postmaster General, serving under President Grover Cleveland
- 1896 - Battle of Adowa, in which Ethiopia defended its independence against Italy, begins. The Italian invasion with 100 000 troops was defeated.
- 1901 - 28,923 colonial soldiers, comprising of 1,457 professional soldiers, 18,603 paid militia and 8,863 unpaid volunteers are transferred to the new Australian Army, however the individual units continued to be administered under the various colonial Acts.
- 1902 - Rear Admiral Frank F. Wildes takes command of the USS Kentucky (BB-6)
- 1905 - Australian Conservative leader Richard Butler takes office as Premier of South Australia
- 1910 – Avalanche in Cascade Range sweeps two trains into a canyon - 96 dead
- 1910 - USS South Carolina commissioned
- 1911 - Jose Ordonez is elected President of Uruguay.
- 1912 - Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
- 1912 - Georg Ritter von Trapp, head of the famous Austrian singing family memorialized in the musical The Sound of Music marries Agathe
- 1916 - Liberal British Columbia Premier Harlan Carey Brewster term in office ends
- 1918 - German submarine Unterseeboot 19 (U-19) sinks HMS Calgarian off Rathlin Island
- 1919 - March 1st Movement against Japanese colonial rule in Korea.
- 1920 - Hungarian Admiral and statesman Miklós Horthy becomes the the Regent of Hungary
- 1923 - USS Connecticut decommissioned
- 1925 - Earthquake in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada
- 1925 - Edgar Varèse's Intégrales is premiered in New York City
- 1931 - Henry Pu Yi, former Emperor of China, is proclaimed Emperor of the puppet state of Manchukuo by Japan.
- 1931 - USS Arizona (BB-39) placed back in full commission after a refit
- 1932 - The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, was kidnapped.
- 1934 - John H. Russell, Jr is appointed Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
- 1936 - Hoover Dam is completed.
- 1940 - Walter Forward ends his term of office as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, serving under President John Tyler
- 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.
- 1941 - Arthur L. Bristol becomes Rear Admiral for the U.S. Navy's Support Force, Atlantic Fleet
- 1943 - "Panzer General" Heinz Guderian becomes the Inspector-General of the Armoured Troops for the German Army durinng World War II
- 1944 - USS Tarawa laid down
- 1945 - Jesse Holman Jones starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Commerce, serving under President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1946 - The Bank of England passes into private ownership.
- 1947 - The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
- 1947 - Wernher von Braun marries his first cousin, 18-year-old Maria von Quirstorp.
- 1949 - World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis announces his retirement from boxing.
- 1950 - West South Baptist Church in Bestridge, Nebraska blows up
- 1950 - Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by giving them top secrete atomic bomb data.
- 1950 - acting Chinese President Li Tsung-jen ends his term in office
- 1950 - Chiang Kai-shek resumes his duties as Chinese President after moving his government to Taipei, Taiwan
- 1953 - after an all-night dinner with interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body. He dies four days later
- 1954 - Nuclear testing: Officials announce that an American hydrogen bomb test had been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1954 - Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
- 1956 - the International Air Transport Association finalises a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization
- 1959 - USS Tuscaloosa struck from the Naval Vessel Register
- 1959 - USS New Orleans struck from the Naval Vessel Register
- 1959 - USS Tennessee struck from the Naval Vessel Register
- 1959 - USS West Virginia struck from the Naval Vessel Register
- 1960 - USS Gato struck from the Naval Vessel Register
- 1961 - President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
- 1961 - first elections held in Uganda and it becomes self-governing
- 1962 - an American Airlines Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff at John F. Kennedy International Airport after its rudder separates from the tail, with loss of all life on board
- 1963 - Yoko Ono's marriage to American Christian fundamentalist filmmaker Tony Cox is annulled
- 1963 - first appearance of John Rockerduck (a character in the Scrooge McDuck Universe) in Italian story Zio Paperone e il kiwi volante ("Uncle Scrooge and the flying kiwi") by Gian Paolo Barosso and Giorgio Bordini
- 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.
- 1967 - USS Tarawa struck from the Naval Vessel Register
- 1968 - Clark Clifford starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Defense, serving under President Lyndon Johnson
- 1968 - Alexander Buel Trowbridge ends his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Commerce, serving under President Lyndon Johnson
- 1968 - United States Navy George Washington class fleet ballistic missile submarine USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) completes her 22nd patrol at Holy Loch.
- 1969 - Major league baseballer Mickey Mantle announces his retirement.
- 1969 - Dad's Army episode Operation Kilt is first broadcast
- 1969 - During a performance at Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium, Jim Morrison of the Doors is arrested for exposing himself during the show. Morrison is officially charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, indecent behavior, open profanity and public drunkenness.
- 1969 - John Kerry officially leaves active duty in Vietnam
- 1971 - Bomb explodes in men's room in the White House - Weather Underground claims responsibility.
- 1971 - Pakistani President Yahya Khan indefinitely postponed the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
- 1971 - Canadian John Robarts ends his term of office as 17th premier of Ontario
- 1973 - The New York Joffrey Ballet's Deuce Coupe Ballet opens. The ballet is set entirely around music by The Beach Boys.
- 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
- 1976 - Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status for those sentenced for crimes relating to the civil violence in Northern Island
- 1977 - Sara Lowndes Dylan files for divorce from her husband of 11 years, Bob Dylan.
- 1978 - Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery.
- 1978 - Timbuktu Broadway production opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre
- 1978 - USSR selects astronauts for the 1978 Intercosmos Group
- 1980 - Voyager 1 probe confirms that Janus (moon of Saturn) exists
- 1980 - Patti Smith marries former MC5 member Fred Sonic Smith
- 1981 - Final IRA Hunger Strike begins in Northern Ireland.
- 1983 - Balearic Islands and Madrid become autonomous communities of Spain
- 1983 - Swatch introduce their first timepieces
- 1983 - Duran Duran's album Rio goes gold
- 1988 - Anthony M. Frank is appointed United States Postmaster General
- 1989 - Louis Wade Sullivan starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Commerce, serving under President George H. W. Bush
- 1989 - James D. Watkins starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Energy, serving under President George H. W. Bush
- 1989 - The Berne Convention is ratified and enters into force with regard to the United States
- 1989 - The Politieke Partij Radicalen, Pacifistisch Socialistische Patij, Communistische Partij Nederland and the Evangelische Volks Partij amalgamate to form Netherlands political party the GroenLinks (GL, GreenLeft)
- 1990 - A fire at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo kills 16.
- 1990 - Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- 1991 - Ballistic Missile Submarine USS-Lafayette (now ex-Lafayette) starts to be deactivated
- 1991 - Ethan-Allen-class submarine USS-Sam Houston (now ex-Sam Houston SSBN-609) starts to be deactivated
- 1991 - Clayton Keith Yeutter finishes as the United States Secretary of Agriculture, under the George H. W. Bush administration
- 1992 - After a majority of Muslim and Croatian communities vote for Bosnian independence, Bosnian Serb snipers fire on civilians.
- 1992 - boxer Kostya Tszyu beats Darrell Hiles by a knockout in one round
- 1994 - South Africa cedes Walvis Bay to Nambia
- 1995 - Attack Submarine USS-Seahorse (now ex-Seahorse (SSN-669))) starts to be deactivated
- 1995 - Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Jozef Oleksy
- 1995 - Daniel Sleator announces his intentions to commercialize the Internet Chess Server (ICS) himself, renames it the Internet Chess Club, or ICC, and charges a yearly membership fee of $49 to howls of protest
- 1995 - R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry leaves the stage during a Switzerland concert after suffering a brain aneurysm, which requires immediate surgery
- 1995 - Muntinlupa City, Phillipines officially becomes a city
- 1997 - the band Phish record Slip Stich and Pass live at Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany
- 1997 - Northern Ireland band Ash release the single Barbie
- 1998 - Attack Submarine USS-Sea Devil (now ex-Sea Devil (SSN-664)) starts to be deactivated
- 1999 - One of four bombs detonated in Lusaka, Zambia, destroys the Angolan Embassy.
- 1999 - Hutu rebels kill eight tourists in Uganda.
- 1999 - The Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines comes into force.
- 1999 - Sony Music Distribution raises wholesale prices on audio Compact Discs by 8 cents
- 2000 - the Constitution of Finland is rewritten
- 2000 - Collin Raye is awarded the Artist Humanitarian Award from Country Radio Broadcasters Inc.
- 2000 - Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
- 2001 - an Israeli killed in a suicide bombing in a service taxi.
- 2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: In eastern Afghanistan, Operation Anaconda begins.
- 2002 - Vladimir Putin meets with Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze in Kazakhstan and pledges his support for the American military initiative against the War on Terrorism
- 2002 - 28 people die in continuing violence in Ahmedabad. Police shoot and kill five while attempting to control rioters.
- 2002 - the Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800km above the Earth on it's 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500kg.
- 2002 - Space Shuttle Columbia flies Hubble Space Telescope service mission (STS-109)
- 2002 - Peseta discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced with the euro (€)
- 2003 - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of September 11 attacks, is detained by Pakistani authorities.
- 2003 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The United Arab Emirates calls for Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to step down to avoid war. The sentiment is later echoed by Bahrain and Kuwait.
- 2003 - Iraq disarmament crisis: the Turkish speaker of Parliament voids the vote accepting U.S. troops involved in the planned invasion of Iraq into Turkey on constitutional grounds. 264 votes for and 250 against accepting 62,000 US military personnel do not constitute the necessary majority under the Turkish constitution, due to 19 abstentions.
- 2003 - Attack Submarine USS-Lapon (now ex-Lapon SSN-661) starts to be deactivated
- 2003 - the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the United States Customs Service, and the United States Secret Service moves to the United States Department of Homeland Security
- 2003 - boxer Roy Jones Jr. beats John Ruiz to become WBA champion
- 2003 - America's Cup race postponed after yachts wait two hours for better weather
- 2004 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former President of Haiti, announces that his resignation of February 29 was forced, and that he was forced to leave the country by American soldiers.
- 2004 - Terry Nichols convicted of state murder charges and accomplice to the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh has his trial started in McAlester, Oklahoma
- 2004 - Britney Spears releases In The Zone single, "Toxic"
- 2004 - The Price is Right airs it's 6,000 episode
- 2004 - Vladimir Putin nominates Mikhail Fradkov for the position as prime minister of Russia.
- 2004 - the Bush Administration officially admits to the implementation of a Continuity of Operations plan following the September 11, 2001 attacks
- 2004 - notorious convicted criminal Marc Dutroux starts trial in Belgium
- 2004 - Tauranga, New Zealand officially becomes a city, for the second time
- 2004 - Gerry Doherty begins office as General Secretary for the trade union the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
- 2004 - Yahoo! announces that it will practice paid inclusion for its search service.
- 2004 - Beck releases the album Mellow Gold
- 2006 - Attack Submarines USS-Lapon to start to be deactivated. Los Angeles class submarines USS Indianapolis, USS-Birmingham, USS-New York City and USS-Atlanta to also start to be deactivated
- 2007 - USS-Baltimore to be deactivated.
Other
- The Pulitzer Prize for Drama runs from March 2 to March 1, rather than being the calendar year.
- From February 14, 1936, to March 1, 1945, AG Weser launched a total of 162 U-boats.
- The first International Symposium on Taiwan Sign Language Linguistics was held on March 1-2, 2003 at Chung Cheng University in Minhsiung, Chiayi Co., Taiwan.
- Two Afghan government soldiers were wounded in a blast in Kandahar.
- Thousands of people gathered outside a police station in the Dasht-e Barchi district of Kabul, Afghanistan after claims that a policeman tried to kidnap a woman there. There were also claims that policemen had raped two women. Surrounding the police station, protesters wanted those responsible for the alleged attack to be punished. Protesters also nominated their own candidates to police the district. Some merchants closed shop in solidarity. Police officers were injured by protesters, who attacked them with stones in western Kabul's Dashta-e-Barchi district. Two civilians were also reported wounded. Shots were fired by police.
- The UNHCR announced that 395,752 Afghans had voluntarily returned home from Iran since a UNHCR joint program with Tehran to the effect began on April 9, 2002. (see details of the UNHCR Afghan repatriation programs)
- U.S. troops raided the compound of Haji Ghalib, the chief of security for Ghanikhel district of Nangarhar province in Afghanistan, arresting him and two others and seizing heavy weapons. Ghalib's son, Mohammed Shafiq, said the U.S. forces also seized missiles, mortars and a large quantity of anti-tank mines during the arrest. The two people detained along with Ghalib were not identified.
- Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was arrested in a joint raid by CIA agents and Pakistani police in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
- Armed men fired on a U.S. observation post at the Salerno base in Khost, Afghanistan. U.S. forces returned fire. There were no casualties.
- Three Afghan soldiers were wounded when their pickup truck ran over a landmine during a routine patrol at Panjwai district, 30 kilometers (20 miles) southwest of Kandahar.
Births
- 1104/5 - Alfonso VII, king of Castile (d. 1157)
- 1445 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (d. 1510)
- 1456 - W?adys?aw Jagiello?czyk, king of Bohemia and Hungary, (d. 1516)
- 1474 - Angela Merici, founder of the Ursulines, (d. 1540)
- 1528 - Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria
- 1610 - Johann Schup (Schuppius), poet and historian
- 1630 - Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, Flemish painter
- 1683 - Caroline of Brandenburg-Amsbach, (d. 1737), wife of George II
- 1709 - Josef Gurecky, composer
- 1711 - Peregrinus Pogl, composer
- 1760 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (d. 1794 suicide)
- 1771 - Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer
- 1807 - Wilford Woodruff, president of the Latter Day Saints church (d. 1898)
- 1810 - Frédéric Chopin, composer and pianist, (d. 1849)
- 1817 - Giovanni Dupre, sculptor
- 1828 - Vittorio Bersezio, Italian playwright
- 1837 - William Dean Howells, writer, historian, editor, politician, (d. 1920)
- 1852 - Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (d. 1923)
- 1858 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1918)
- 1865 - Abe Iso, Japanese politician (d. 1949)
- 1871 - Ben Harney, US composer and ragtime pianist (d. 1938)
- 1876 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian IOC president, (d. 1942)
- 1879 - Alexandur Stamboliyski, Bulgarian politician (d. 1923)
- 1880 - Lytton Strachey, English critic (d. 1932)
- 1880 - Giles Lytton Strachey British writer and biographer (d. 1932)
- 1886 - Oskar Kokoschka, painter, graphic artist and poet, (d. 1980)
- 1892 - Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (d. 1927)
- 1904 - Glenn Miller, bandleader, (d. 1944)
- 1906 - Phạm Văn Ðồng, Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1954 through 1976, and was Prime Minister of reunified Vietnam from 1976 until he retired in 1986 (d. 2000)
- 1909 - David Niven, actor, (d. 1983)
- 1911 - Harry Golombek, English chess grandmaster (d. 1995)
- 1914 - Ralph Ellison, writer, (d. 1994)
- 1917 - Robert Lowell, poet, (d. 1977)
- 1918 - Joao Goulart, president of Brazil (1961-March 31, 1964) (d. 1976)
- 1918 - Roger Delgado, British actor (d. 1973)
- 1920 - William Dean Howells, writer (d. 1920)
- 1921 - Jack Clayton, film director
- 1921 - Richard Wilbur, American poet
- 1922 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, (d. 1995)
- 1922 - William Gaines, publisher, founder of MAD Magazine, (d. 1992)
- 1926 - Pete Rozelle, commissioner of the National Football League, (d. 1996)
- 1927 - Harry Belafonte, musician and actor
- 1927 - Robert Bork, law professor
- 1928 - Jacques Rivette, director
- 1928 - Dr. Seymour Papert, MIT mathematician, educator, inventor of LOGO programming language, Artificial Intelligence researcher
- 1929 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident, (d. 1978)
- 1935 - Robert Conrad, actor
- 1935 - Judith Rossner, writer
- 1937 - Jed Allan, actor
- 1939 - Warren Davis, The Monotones
- 1942 - Richard Bowman Myers, General of the United States Air Force, current Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
- 1942 - Gabriel Hudon, FLQ terrorist
- 1944 - Roger Daltrey, musician ("The Who")
- 1944 - Mike D'Abo, rock vocalist of band Mannfred Mann
- 1945 - Dirk Benedict, movie and television actor, perhaps best known for playing the character of "Face" in the television series The A-Team
- 1946 - Tony Ashton, British rock musician
- 1948 - Winston Rodney, aka Burning Spear, Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician
- 1952 - Steven Barnes, science fiction writer
- 1954 - Ron Howard, actor, director, producer
- 1954 - Catherine Bach, actress
- 1963 - Dan Michaels, producer, saxophonist, member of the rock band The Choir and also The Swirling Eddies, owner of Galaxy21 Music.
- 1964 - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, suspected military head of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda (his birth date is also reported to be April 14, 1965)
- 1967 - Stuart Conquest, English chess player
- 1967 - Aron Winter, Dutch soccer player
- 1969 - Javier Bardem, actor
- 1969 - Rob Janssen, baseball player
- 1969 - Dafydd Ieuan, drummer with the band Super Furry Animals
- 1973 - Ryan Peake, guitarist with the band Nickelback
- 1974 - Mark-Paul Gosselaar, actor (Saved by the Bell, NYPD Blue)
- 1980 - Ron Weasley, fictional character in the Harry Potter series
Deaths
- 1244 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, eldest, illegitimate son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
- 1383 - Amadeus VI of Savoy, Count of Savoy (b. 1334)
- 1620 - Thomas Campion, poet and composer (b. 1567)
- 1661 - Richard Zouch, English jurist (b. 1590)
- 1697 - Francesco Redi, physician, refuted abiogenesis (b. 1626)
- 1768 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
- 1792 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
- 1862 - Peter Barlow, mathematician (b. 1776)
- 1884 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
- 1911 - J. H. van 't Hoff, Dutch physical and organic chemist, the winner of the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1852)
- 1920 - John H. Bankhead, United States Senator (b. 1842)
- 1922 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish football player (b. 1892)
- 1924 - Louise-Marie Amélie, daughter of Leopold II of Belgium, wife of Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1858)
- 1932 - Frank Teschemacher, jazz clarinetist and alto-saxophonist
- 1938 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, dramatist, daredevil, war hero and politician (b. 1863)
- 1945 - Umenosuke Bessho, Japanese writer (b. 1871)
- 1979 - Mustafa Barzani, leader of Kurdistan Democratic Party (b. 1903)
- 1984 - Jackie Coogan, actor (b. 1914)
- 1988 - Joe Besser, member of the Three Stooges (b. 1907)
- 1991 - Edwin Herbert Land, inventor (b. 1909)
- 1995 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist, anchor, and director of ORTV (b. 1956)
- 2000 - Dennis Danell guitarist of band Social Distortion
- 2002 - Doreen Waddell, vocalist of bands Soul II Soul and KLF
- 2003 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, former president of El Salvador (1967-1972) (b. 1917)
Holidays and observances
- Korea - Independence Movement Day (Samiljeol; 삼일절)
- Roman Empire - Matronalia in honor of Juno
- Roman Empire - Feriae Marti in honor of Mars
- Roman Empire - New Year
- Roman Empire - The sacred fire of Rome was renewed (See Vesta)
- Saint David's Day (National Holiday of Wales)
- Historically, March 1st was considered to be the beginning of the year. The names of some months reflect this. (September = Seventh, October = Eighth, November = Ninth, December = Tenth). (see New Year) If the days of the year were counted from March 1, till the next March 1, each date of the year would have the same number every year, unlike counting from January 1.
- World Day of Prayer
- Bahá'í Faith - Last Day (4 or 5) of Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) - days in the Bahá'í calendar devoted to service and gift giving.
- Labour day - Western Australia
- Eight Hours Day - Tasmania, Australia
- Feast of Saint David - United Kingdom
Seasons beginning March 1
In Denmark, spring begins on March 1, while in Australia autumn begins on March 1.
Year Beginning March 1
If one begins each year on March 1, then each date will have the same day number in this year, regardless of whether it's a leap year or not (e.g. December 25 is always day 300). Also the months follow a regular 5-month cycle of 153 days, till the end of February. This can be seen by listing the number of days in the months thus:
Mar 31 Aug 31 Jan 31 Apr 30 Sep 30 Feb 28/29 May 31 Oct 31 Jun 30 Nov 30 Jul 31 Dec 31
This regularity is sometimes used in calendar calculations.
February 28 - February 29 - (February 30) - March 2 - February 1 - April 1 -- listing of all days
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