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This day in history: 1 March

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Key facts

239 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 1 March.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2024: The Flour Massacre took place in the Gaza Strip: Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians waiting for aid amidst the Gaza war, killing over 100 and wounding 750.

Holidays and observances

As a Christian feast day: February 29 in the Orthodox church

As a Christian feast day: Saint John Cassian

Bachelor's Day (Ireland and United Kingdom)

Rare Disease Day (in leap years; usually celebrated in common years on February 28)

Events

2024The Flour Massacre took place in the Gaza Strip: Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians waiting for aid amidst the Gaza war, killing over 100 and wounding 750.

2020During a demonstration, pro-government colectivos shoot at disputed President and Speaker of the National Assembly Juan Guaidó and his supporters in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, leaving five injured.

2020Luxembourg becomes the first country in the world to render public transport free nationwide.

2020Muhyiddin Yassin is appointed as the 8th Prime Minister of Malaysia, amid the 2020 Malaysian political crisis.

2020The United States and the Taliban sign the Doha Agreement for bringing peace to Afghanistan.

2016In the Miqdadiyah bombing: at least 40 people are killed and 58 others wounded following a suicide bombing by ISIL at a Shi'ite funeral in the city of Miqdadiyah, Diyala, Iraq.

2012North Korea agrees to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for US food aid.

2008Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.

2008The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence withdraws Prince Harry from a tour of Afghanistan after news of his deployment is leaked to foreign media.

2004Angelina Jolie wears a White Marc Bouwer dress to the 76th Academy Awards, which has since been placed on numerous lists for best Oscars fashion.

2004Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as president of Haiti following a coup.

2000Chechens attack a guard post near Ulus Kert, eventually killing 84 Russian paratroopers during the Second Chechen War.

1996Faucett Perú Flight 251 crashes in the Andes; all 123 passengers and crew are killed.

1996The Siege of Sarajevo officially ends.

1992A referendum is begun in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the determination of Bosnian independence.

1988South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.

1988Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.

1984Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Canada.

1980Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.

1972South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from South Vietnam as part of Nixon's Vietnamization policy in the Vietnam War.

1968Aeroflot Flight 15 crashes Irkutsk Oblast, Soviet Union, due to a loss of control. Eighty-three of the 84 occupants onboard die. The exact cause of the accident is unknown.

1964British Eagle International Airlines Flight 802/6 crashes into the Glungezer mountain in the Tux Alps of Austria, killing all 75 people aboard.

1960The 5.7 Mw Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme), destroying Agadir and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured.

1944The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer, led by American general Douglas MacArthur, in World War II.

1940Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations.

1940For her performance as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.

1940In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's consul general in San Francisco.

1936The February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends.

1924The Victorian Football League created the Brownlow Medal to honour deceased administrator Charles Brownlow, now awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League.

1920The Czechoslovak National Assembly adopts the Constitution.

1916In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.

1916Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.

1912The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.

1908James Madison University is founded at Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States as The State Normal and Industrial School for Women by the Virginia General Assembly.

1892St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.

1796The Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain comes into force, facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.

1768Polish nobles form the Bar Confederation.

1720Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I on March 24.

1712February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Julian calendar.

1704In Queen Anne's War, French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, killing 56 villagers and taking more than 100 captive.

Born on this day

2008Rémi Himbert, French footballer

2004Abdukodir Khusanov, Uzbek footballer

2004Lydia Jacoby, American swimmer

2000Ferran Torres, Spanish footballer

2000Jesper Lindstrøm, Danish footballer

2000Tyrese Haliburton, American basketball player

1996Claudia Williams, New Zealand tennis player

1996Nelson Asofa-Solomona, New Zealand rugby league player

1996Norberto Briasco, Argentine-Armenian footballer

1996Reece Prescod, British sprinter

1992Eric Kendricks, American football player

1992Jessica Long, American paralympic swimmer

1992Jessie T. Usher, American actor

1992Saphir Taïder, Algerian footballer

1992Sean Abbott, Australian cricketer

1988Benedikt Höwedes, German footballer

1988Brent Macaffer, Australian Rules footballer

1988Coco Khan, British writer

1988Hannah Mills, Welsh sports sailor

1988Lena Gercke, German model and television host

1984Cam Ward, Canadian ice hockey player

1984Cullen Jones, American swimmer

1984Darren Ambrose, English footballer

1984Lena Raine, American video game composer and producer

1984Mark Foster, American singer, songwriter and musician

1984Nuria Martínez, Spanish basketball player

1984Rakhee Thakrar, English actress

1984Rica Imai, Japanese model and actress

1980Çağdaş Atan, Turkish footballer and coach

1980Clinton Toopi, New Zealand rugby league player

1980Peter Scanavino, American actor (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)

1980Rubén Plaza, Spanish cyclist

1980Simon Gagné, Canadian ice hockey player

1980Taylor Twellman, American soccer player and sportscaster

1976Ja Rule, American rapper and actor

1976Katalin Kovács, Hungarian sprint kayaker

1976Terrence Long, American baseball player

1976Vonteego Cummings, American basketball player

1972Antonio Sabàto Jr., Italian-American model and actor

1972Dave Williams, American singer (died 2002)

Died on this day

2024Ali Hassan Mwinyi, 2nd President of Tanzania and 3rd President of Zanzibar (born 1925)

2024Brian Mulroney, 18th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1939)

2020Dieter Laser, German actor (born 1942)

2020Éva Székely, Hungarian Hall of Fame swimmer and 1952 Olympic champion (born 1927)

2016Gil Hill, American police officer, actor and politician (born 1931)

2016Josefin Nilsson, Swedish singer (born 1969)

2016Louise Rennison, English author (born 1951)

2016Mumtaz Qadri, Pakistani assassin, executed (born 1985)

2016Wenn V. Deramas, Filipino director and screenwriter (born 1966)

2012Davy Jones, English singer, guitarist and actor (born 1945)

2012P. K. Narayana Panicker, Indian social leader (born 1930)

2012Sheldon Moldoff, American illustrator (born 1920)

2008Akira Yamada, Japanese scholar and philosopher (born 1922)

2008Erik Ortvad, Danish painter and illustrator (born 1917)

2008Janet Kagan, American author (born 1946)

2004Harold Bernard St. John, Barbadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Barbados (born 1931)

2004Jerome Lawrence, American playwright and author (born 1915)

2004Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 42nd Yokozuna (born 1923)

2004Lorrie Wilmot, South African cricketer (born 1943)

2000Dennis Danell, American guitarist (born 1961)

1996Frank Daniel, Czech-American director, producer and screenwriter (born 1926)

1996Ralph Rowe, American baseball player, coach and manager (born 1924)

1996Wes Farrell, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1939)

1992Ruth Pitter, English poet and author (born 1897)

1984Ludwik Starski, Polish screenwriter and songwriter (born 1903)

1980Gil Elvgren, American painter and illustrator (born 1914)

1980Yigal Allon, Israeli general and politician, Prime Minister of Israel (born 1918)

1976Florence P. Dwyer, American politician (born 1902)

1972Tom Davies, American football player and coach (born 1896)

1968Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet and educator (born 1886)

Quote of the day

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

Lao Tzu

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