Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 1
This is a list of selected March 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Warwick Armstrong -
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Peace Corps logo -
Muhammad Ali Pasha of Egypt
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Martenitsa in Bulgaria | needs more footnotes |
| Victory at Adwa Day in Ethiopia (1896); | unreferenced section |
| Mărțișor in Moldova and Romania | original research, unreliable sources |
| 1562 – Troops of Francis, Duke of Guise, massacred Huguenots in Wassy, France, starting the French Wars of Religion. | massacre: refimprove section; wars: refimprove section |
| 1565 – Rio de Janeiro was founded by the Portuguese as São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro. | refimprove section |
| 1633 – Samuel de Champlain reclaimed his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu. | refimprove section |
| 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba were brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning the Salem witch trials. | refimprove sections |
| 1700 – Sweden introduced its own calendar in an attempt to reform into the Gregorian calendar. | refimprove |
| 1781 – The Articles of Confederation, the first governing constitution of the United States, was ratified, legally uniting what were originally several independent states into a new sovereign federation. | unreferenced section |
| 1805 – Samuel Chase, the only Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to be impeached, was acquitted by the Senate. | refimprove section |
| 1811 – Muhammad Ali Pasha, Wāli of the Ottoman province of Egypt, killed the leaders of the Mamluk Sultanate to seize power, founding a dynasty that would last until 1952. | refimprove section |
| 1896 – Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War. | unreferenced section |
| 1896 – French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered the principle of radioactive decay when he exposed photographic plates to uranium. | refimprove |
| 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. | refimprove |
| 1954 – The 15-megaton hydrogen bomb Castle Bravo was detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in one of the worst cases of radioactive contamination ever caused by nuclear weapons testing. | tagged more footnotes |
| 1954 – Four Puerto Rican nationalists shot 30 rounds from semi-automatic pistols during an open session of the United States House of Representatives, injuring five people. | refimprove section |
| 1961 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps. | unreferenced section |
| 1947 – The International Monetary Fund began its financial operations. | refimprove section |
| 1956 – The NATO phonetic alphabet, today the most widely used spelling alphabet, was first implemented by the International Civil Aviation Organization. | refimprove section |
| 1979 – Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference in Eindhoven, Netherlands. | refimprove section |
| 1981 – 1981 Irish hunger strike | save for October 3 |
| 1991 – Uprisings against Saddam Hussein began in Iraq, leading to the death of more than 25,000 people, mostly civilians. | unreferenced section |
| 2007 – Danish police forcibly evicted squatters from the Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, prompting widespread rioting that would result in 690 arrests in three days. | external links |
| 2009 – The Special Tribunal for Lebanon opened in Leidschendam, Netherlands to prosecute those accused of the 2005 terrorist attack that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri and 21 others. | multiple issues |
Eligible
- 1936 – Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River along the Arizona–Nevada border, was completed and turned over to the Federal government of the United States.
- 1944 – World War II: American and Australian troops won the Battle of Sio in New Guinea.
- 1950 – In a trial lasting less than 90 minutes, German–British physicist Klaus Fuchs was convicted of violating the Official Secrets Act for supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.
- 1958 – Archbishop of Chicago Samuel Stritch was appointed Pro-Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of Faith, thus becoming the first American to head a dicastery of the Roman Curia.
- 1962 – American Airlines Flight 1 crashed shortly after takeoff from New York International (Idlewild) Airport, killing all 95 people aboard.
- Born/died: Glenn Miller (b. 1904) · Lupita Nyong'o (b. 1983)
March 1: Purim (Judaism, 2018); Independence Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992); National Pig Day in the United States; Saint David's Day in Wales; Yap Day in Yap
- 1476 – War of the Castilian Succession: Although the Battle of Toro was militarily inconclusive, it assured Ferdinand and Isabella the throne of Castile, forming the basis for modern Spain.
- 1872 – Yellowstone National Park (bison pictured), the first national park in the world, was established with the majority of it in the U.S. state of Wyoming.
- 1921 – The Australian cricket team led by Warwick Armstrong became the first team to complete a whitewash in the Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
- 2014 – A group of knife-wielding men and women attacked passengers at Kunming railway station in Kunming, China, leaving 31 victims and 4 perpetrators dead with more than 140 others injured.
Vladislaus II of Hungary (b. 1456) · Francesco Redi (d. 1697) · Nick Griffin (b. 1959)