Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 1
March 1: Ash Wednesday in Western Christianity (2006); Saint David's Day in Wales, Mărţişor in Romania and Moldova, Martenitsa in Bulgaria.
- 1872 - Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the world, was established.
- 1896 - Ethiopia won the decisive Battle of Adowa over Italy, ending the First Italo-Abyssinian War.
- 1919 - Korea under Japanese rule: The Samil Movement began with numerous peaceful protests in Korea, but was brutally suppressed by the Japanese police and army.
- 1947 - The International Monetary Fund began its financial operations.
- 1954 - The 15-megaton hydrogen bomb Castle Bravo was detonated (pictured) on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in one of the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by nuclear testing.
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