March 1

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March 1 is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 305 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 752 BC – Romulus, legendary first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following The Rape of the Sabine Women.
• 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola, Roman consul, celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
• 86 BC – Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, removing the tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI of Pontus.
• 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus as Caesar to Maximian.
• 317 – Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made Caesares
• 350 – Vetranio is asked by Constantina, sister of Constantius II, to proclaim himself Caesar.
• 1457 – The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.
• 1562 – 23 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.
• 1593 – The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden.
• 1628 – Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate 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 the United States.
• 1692 – 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.
• 1700 – 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.
• 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.
• 1845 – President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
• 1847 – The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment.
• 1852 – Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
• 1854 – German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg.
• 1867 – Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
• 1870 – Marshal F.S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the Paraguayan War.
• 1872 – Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
• 1873 – E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
• 1886 – The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
• 1893 – Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1896 – Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo–Ethiopian War.
• 1896 – Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
• 1901 – The Australian Army was formed.
• 1910 – The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
• 1912 – Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
• 1914 – The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
• 1917 – The U.S. government releases the unencrypted text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
• 1919 – March 1st Movement begins in Korea.
• 1921 – The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
• 1932 – The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
• 1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed.
• 1936 – 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.
• 1939 – A Japanese Imperial Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
• 1941 – World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with 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.
• 1950 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
• 1953 – Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. 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.
• 1956 – The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
• 1956 – Formation of the National People's Army
• 1958 – Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect 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 and holds its first elections.
• 1962 – American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York.
• 1964 – Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
• 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.
• 1971 – A bomb explodes in a men's room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
• 1971 – President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones 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.
• 1973 – Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
• 1974 – Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
• 1981 – Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
• 1989 – The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
• 1990 – Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• 1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 1995 – Prime Minister of Poland Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy.
• 1995 – Yahoo! is incorporated.
• 2000 – The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
• 2000 – Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
• 2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
• 2002 – The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 kilometers (500 mi) above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (8.5 tons).
• 2002 – The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by 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.
• 2003 – The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
• 2004 – Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq.
• 2005 – US Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional marking a change in "national standards,".
• 2006 – English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
• 2007 – Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths are at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
• 2007 – "Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots.
• 2008 – The Armenian police clashed with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections 2008

Births

• 752 BC– Romulus, Roman emporer
• 40 – Martial, Latin poet (d. 102)
• 1432 – Isabel of Coimbra, Queen of Portugal (d. 1455)
• 1445 – Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (d. 1510)
• 1456 – King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1516)
• 1474 – Saint Angela Merici, Italian religious leader and saint (d. 1540)
• 1547 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628)
• 1597 – Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (d. 1652)
• 1611 – John Pell, English mathematician (d. 1685)
• 1657 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (d. 1740)
• 1683 – Caroline of Ansbach, English noble (d. 1737)
• 1683 – Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (d. 1706)
• 1732 – William Cushing, American jurist (d. 1810)
• 1760 – François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French revolutionary (d. 1794)
• 1769 – François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (d. 1796)
• 1781 – Javiera Carrera, Chilean aristoctrat (d. 1862)
• 1807 – Wilford Woodruff, American religious figure (d. 1898)
• 1810 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer (d. 1849)
• 1812 – Augustus Pugin, English-born architect (d. 1852)
• 1817 – Giovanni Duprè, Italian sculptor (d. 1882)
• 1821 – Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German bishop (d. 1896)
• 1837 – William Dean Howells, American writer, historian and politician (d. 1920)
• 1842 – Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter (d. 1901)
• 1848 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-born American sculptor (d. 1907)
• 1852 – Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (d. 1923)
• 1858 – Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1918)
• 1863 – Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (d. 1930)
• 1865 – Abe Iso, Japanese politician (d. 1949)
• 1871 – Ben Harney, American composer and ragtime pianist (d. 1938)
• 1876 – Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian amateur sports executive (d. 1942)
• 1880 – Giles Lytton Strachey, British writer (d. 1932)
• 1886 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet (d. 1980)
• 1888 – Ewart Astill, English cricketer (d. 1948)
• 1889 – Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (d. 1960)
• 1892 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (d. 1927)
• 1893 – Mercedes de Acosta, American socialite (d. 1968)
• 1896 – Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (d. 1960)
• 1896 – Moriz Seeler, German writer and producer (d. 1942)
• 1899 – Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German Nazi official (d. 1972)
• 1904 – Paul Hartman, American actor (d. 1973)
• 1904 – Glenn Miller, American bandleader (d. 1944)
• 1905 – Doris Hare, Welsh actress (d. 2000)
• 1906 – Camilla Spira, German actress (d. 1997)
• 1906 – Pham Van Dong, Vietnamese politician (d. 2000)
• 1910 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
• 1910 – David Niven, English actor (d. 1983)
• 1911 – Rina Ketty, French singer (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian archbishop (d. 2003)
• 1912 – Boris Chertok, Polish-born Russian rocket designer (d. 2011)
• 1914 – Harry Caray, American sportscaster (d. 1998)
• 1914 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (d. 1994)
• 1915 – Malak Karsh, Canadian photographer (d. 2001)
• 1917 – Robert Lowell, American poet (d. 1977)
• 1918 – Roger Delgado, English actor (d. 1973)
• 1918 – João Goulart, President of Brazil (d. 1976)
• 1918 – Gladys Noon Spellman, American politician (d. 1988)
• 1920 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
• 1921 – Jack Clayton, British film director (d. 1995)
• 1921 – Terence Cooke, American cardinal archbishop (d. 1983)
• 1921 – Richard Wilbur, American poet
• 1922 – William Gaines, American publisher (d. 1992)
• 1922 – Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli statesman, Nobel laureate (d. 1995)
• 1923 – Péter Kuczka, Hungarian writer and editor (d. 1999)
• 1924 – Deke Slayton, American astronaut (d. 1993)
• 1926 – Robert Clary, French-born actor
• 1926 – Cesare Danova, Italian-born American actor (d. 1992)
• 1926 – Pete Rozelle, American professional sports executive (d. 1996)
• 1926 – Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1927 – Harry Belafonte, American actor and musician
• 1927 – Robert Bork, American legal scholar
• 1928 – Seymour Papert, South African mathematician
• 1928 – Jacques Rivette, French film director
• 1929 – Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978)
• 1930 – Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (d. 1980)
• 1933 – Gerry Bron, British record producer
• 1934 – Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian artist (d. 2005)
• 1934 – Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983)
• 1935 – Robert Conrad, American actor
• 1936 – Monique Bégin, French-Canadian politician
• 1936 – Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (d. 1997)
• 1937 – Jed Allan, American actor
• 1939 – Leo Brouwer, Cuban composer and guitarist
• 1940 – David Broome, Welsh showjumper
• 1940 – Robert Grossman, American illustrator
• 1941 – Joo Hyun, South Korean actor
• 1941 – Donnie Walsh, American basketball coach and executive
• 1942 – Richard Bowman Myers, American general
• 1943 – Gil Amelio, American venture capitalist
• 1943 – José Ángel Iribar, Spanish footballer
• 1943 – Akinori Nakayama, Japanese gymnast
• 1943 – Richard H. Price, American physicist
• 1943 – Rashid Sunyaev, Russian physicist
• 1943 – Cha Katō, Japanese comedian and actor
• 1944 – John Breaux, American politician
• 1944 – Mike d'Abo, English singer (Manfred Mann, A Band of Angels)
• 1944 – Roger Daltrey, English musician (The Who)
• 1945 – Dirk Benedict, American actor
• 1946 – Elvin Bethea, American football player
• 1946 – Gerry Boulet, Canadian singer (Offenbach) (d. 1990)
• 1946 – Lana Wood, American actress
• 1947 – Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and songwriter
• 1948 – Burning Spear, Jamaican singer and musician
• 1951 – Sergei Kourdakov, Soviet intelligence agent
• 1952 – Steven Barnes, American writer
• 1952 – Nevada Barr, American author
• 1952 – Leigh Matthews, Australian rules footballer and coach
• 1952 – Jerri Nielsen, American physician (d. 2009)
• 1952 – Martin O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager
• 1952 – Brian Winters, American basketball player and coach
• 1953 – Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, American football player
• 1954 – Catherine Bach, American actress
• 1954 – Ron Howard, American actor and director
• 1956 – Timothy Daly, American actor
• 1956 – Dalia Grybauskaitė, Lithuanian politician
• 1957 – Peter Athans, American mountaineer
• 1958 – Nik Kershaw, English musician
• 1958 – Chosei Komatsu, Japanese conductor
• 1958 – Bertrand Piccard, Swiss balloonist and psychiatrist
• 1959 – Nick Griffin, British politician
• 1959 – Diamanto Manolakou, Greek politician
• 1960 – William Bennett, English musician (Whitehouse)
• 1962 – Mark Gardner, American baseball player
• 1962 – Melanie Moore, American actress
• 1963 – Rob Affuso, American drummer (Skid Row)
• 1963 – Thomas Anders, German singer (Modern Talking)
• 1963 – Maurice Benard, American actor
• 1963 – Ron Francis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963 – Dan Michaels, American musician and record producer (The Choir)
• 1963 – Russell Wong, American actor
• 1964 – Clinton Gregory, American musician
• 1964 – Paul Le Guen, French football manager
• 1965 – Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey
• 1965 – Booker Huffman, American wrestler
• 1965 – Mary Lou Lord, American singer/songwriter
• 1966 – Susan Auch, Canadian speed-skater
• 1966 – Zack Snyder, American film-maker
• 1967 – Yelena Afanasyeva, Russian athlete
• 1967 – George Eads, American actor
• 1967 – Aron Winter, Dutch footballer
• 1968 – Salil Ankola, Indian cricketer and TV actor
• 1969 – Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
• 1969 – Doug Creek, American baseball player
• 1969 – Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh drummer (Super Furry Animals)
• 1969 – József Szabó, Hungarian swimmer
• 1970 – Jason V Brock, American author
• 1971 – Tyler Hamilton, American cyclist
• 1973 – Jack Davenport, English actor
• 1973 – Anton Gunn, American politician
• 1973 – Ryan Peake, Canadian guitarist (Nickelback)
• 1973 – Carlo Resoort, Dutch DJ
• 1973 – Chris Webber, American basketball player
• 1974 – Stephen Davis, American football player
• 1974 – Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor
• 1974 – Shane Harwood, Australian cricketer
• 1975 – Maya Kulenovic, Canadian painter
• 1975 – Francesco Mazzariol, Italian rugby player
• 1976 – Peter F. Bell, Australian rules footballer
• 1976 – Dave Malkoff, American TV news reporter
• 1977 – Rens Blom, Dutch athlete
• 1977 – Esther Cañadas, Spanish actress and model
• 1978 – Jensen Ackles, American actor
• 1978 – Donovan Patton, Guamanian television star
• 1978 – Alicia Leigh Willis, American actress
• 1980 – Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer
• 1980 – Gennaro Bracigliano, French footballer
• 1980 – Sercan Güvenışık, Turkish footballer
• 1980 – Abdur Rehman, Pakistani cricketer
• 1980 – Djimi Traoré, Malian footballer
• 1981 – Ana Hickmann, Brazilian supermodel
• 1981 – Adam LaVorgna, American actor
• 1981 – Will Power, Australian racing driver
• 1981 – Brad Winchester, American ice hockey player
• 1982 – Shalva Didebashvili, Georgian-born German rugby player
• 1982 – Juan Manuel Ortiz, Spanish footballer
• 1983 – Daniel Carvalho, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 – Elan Sara DeFan, Mexican singer-songwriter
• 1983 – Chris Hackett, English footballer
• 1983 – Blake Hawksworth, Canadian baseball player
• 1984 – Jacob Lillyman, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1984 – Naima Mora, American model
• 1984 – Alexander Steen, Canadian-born Swedish ice hockey player
• 1984 – Anthony Tupou, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1985 – J Leman, American football player
• 1985 – Andreas Ottl, German footballer
• 1986 – Jonathan Spector, American footballer
• 1987 – Ke$ha, American singer
• 1987 – Sammie, American singer
• 1988 – Trevor Cahill, American baseball player
• 1988 – Katija Pevec, American actress
• 1988 – Freddie Smith, American actor
• 1989 – Anjo Buckman, German rugby player
• 1989 – Sonya Kitchell, American singer
• 1989 – Daniella Monet, American actress
• 1989 – Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer
• 1990 – Harry Eden, English actor
• 1993 – Josh McEachran, English footballer
• 1994 – Justin Bieber, Canadian singer
• 1995 – Jonathan Krohn, American political prodigy

Deaths

• 317 – Valerius Valens, Roman Emperor
• 986 – King Lothair of France (b. 941)
• 1131 – King Stephen II of Hungary (b. 1101)
• 1233 – Count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178)
• 1244 – Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
• 1320 – Buyantu Khagan, Emperor of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty (b. 1286)
• 1383 – Amadeus VI of Savoy (b. 1334)
• 1510 – Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer
• 1536 – Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (b. 1465)
• 1546 – George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b. 1513)
• 1620 – Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (b. 1567)
• 1633 – George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)
• 1643 – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (b. 1583)
• 1661 – Richard Zouch, English jurist (b. 1590)
• 1697 – Francesco Redi, Italian physician (b. 1626)
• 1706 – Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (b. 1632)
• 1734 – Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
• 1757 – Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712)
• 1768 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
• 1773 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (b. 1700)
• 1777 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (b. 1715)
• 1792 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
• 1817 – Giacomo Quarenghi, Italian architect (b. 1744)
• 1825 – John Haggin, "Indian fighter" and one of the earliest settlers of Kentucky (b. 1753)
• 1841 – Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (b. 1764)
• 1862 – Peter Barlow, English mathematician (b. 1776)
• 1875 – Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
• 1879 – Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
• 1882 – Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, teacher (b. 1818)
• 1884 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
• 1895 – Pauline Musters, shortest woman ever (b. 1876)
• 1898 – George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (b. 1825)
• 1906 – José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (b. 1833)
• 1911 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1912 – George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847)
• 1914 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)
• 1920 – John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (b. 1842)
• 1920 – Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (b. 1880)
• 1922 – Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
• 1929 – Royal H. Weller, American politician (b. 1881)
• 1932 – Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1906)
• 1933 – Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
• 1936 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (b. 1871)
• 1938 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer, war hero, and politician (b. 1863)
• 1940 – Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)
• 1942 – George S. Rentz, Navy chaplain (b. 1882)
• 1943 – Alexandre Yersin, Swiss physician (b. 1863)
• 1952 – Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (b. 1873)
• 1963 – Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
• 1963 – Irish Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1893)
• 1965 – Joseph-Eugène Limoges, Canadian bishop (b. 1879)
• 1966 – Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
• 1970 – Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
• 1974 – Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (The Jazz Messengers) (b. 1935)
• 1976 – Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (b. 1910)
• 1979 – Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (b. 1903)
• 1980 – Wilhelmina, Dutch-American model (b. 1940)
• 1980 – Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
• 1982 – Frank Sargeson, New Zealand writer (b. 1903)
• 1984 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1984 – Roland Culver, British actor (b. 1900)
• 1988 – Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (b. 1907)
• 1989 – Vasantdada Patil, Indian politician (b. 1917)
• 1991 – Edwin H. Land, American scientist and inventor (Polaroid Corporation) (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1946)
• 1995 – Vladislav Listyev, Russian television journalist (b. 1956)
• 2001 – Henry Wade, American lawyer (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Mian Ghulam Jilani, Pakistani general (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Peter Malkin, Israeli secret agent (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Harry Browne, American politician and author (b. 1933)
• 2006 – Johnny Jackson, American musician (The Jackson 5) (b. 1951)
• 2006 – Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
• 2006 – Jack Wild, British actor (b. 1952)
• 2008 – Raul Reyes, second-in-command of FARC guerrilla (b. 1948)
• 2010 – Kristian Digby, British television presenter and director (b. 1977)
• 2012 – Andrew Breitbart, American publisher and conservative political commentator (b. 1969)
• 2012 – Lucio Dalla, Italian singer (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances

• Beer Day, marked the end of beer prohibition in 1989 (Iceland)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Albin (Catholic Church)
  • Monan (Catholic Church)
  • Suitbert (Catholic Church)
  • March 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Earliest day on which Casimir Pulaski Day can fall, while March 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday in March. (Illinois)
• Earliest day on which Laetare Sunday can fall, while April 4 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent. (Western Christianity), and its related observances:
  • Carnaval de la Laetare (Stavelot)
  • Mothering Sunday (United Kingdom)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992.
• March 1st Movement Remembrance Day or Samiljeol; 삼일절 (South Korea)
• Martenitsa (Bulgaria)
• Mărțișor (Romania and Moldova)
• National Pig Day, a minor observance (United States)
• Roman New Year observances:
  • Feriae Marti in honor of Mars
  • Matronalia in honor of Juno
  • Renewal of the Vestal fire
• Saint David's Day or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant (Wales and Welsh communities)
• Self Injury Awareness Day
• The final day (fourth or fifth) of Ayyám-i-Há (Bahá'í Faith)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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