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This day in history: 1 March

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Key facts

333 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 1 March.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2014: Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.

Holidays and observances

Beer Day, marked the end of beer prohibition in 1989 (Iceland)

Chalandamarz, traditional Alpine spring festival (Switzerland)

Christian feast day: Agnes Tsao Kou Ying (one of the Martyr Saints of China)

Christian feast day: Albin

Christian feast day: Eudokia of Heliopolis

Christian feast day: Leoluca

Christian feast day: Luperculus

Christian feast day: March 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Monan

Christian feast day: Pope Felix III

Christian feast day: Rudesind

Christian feast day: Saint David's Day or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi (Wales and Welsh communities)

Events

2014Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.

2008The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections; as a result ten people are killed.

2007Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise High School.

2006English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.

2005In Roper v. Simmons, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of any crime is unconstitutional.

2003Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service moves to the United States Department of Homeland Security.

2002Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-109 to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

2002The Envisat environmental satellite successfully launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket to reach an orbit of 800 km (500 mi) above the Earth, which was the then-largest payload at 10.5 m long and with a diameter of 4.57 m.

2002U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.

1998Titanic becomes the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.

1992Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

1991Uprisings against Saddam Hussein begin in Iraq, leading to the deaths of more than 25,000 people, mostly civilians.

1990Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

1981Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.

1974Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.

1973Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.

1971President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.

1966The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.

1966Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.

1964Paradise Airlines Flight 901A crashes near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, killing 85.

1964Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.

1962American Airlines Flight 1 crashes into Jamaica Bay in New York, killing 95.

1961Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.

1958Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first U.S. member of the Roman Curia.

1956Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee.

1956The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.

1954Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.

1954Nuclear weapons 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.

1953Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.

1950Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.

1947The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.

1946The Bank of England is nationalised.

1942World War II: Japanese forces land on Java, the main island of the Dutch East Indies, at Merak and Banten Bay (Banten), Eretan Wetan (Indramayu) and Kragan (Rembang).

1941World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.

1939An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.

1932Aviator Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son Charles Jr is kidnapped from his home in East Amwell, New Jersey. His body would not be found until May 12.

1921Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion begins, with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.

1921The 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.

1919March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.

1917The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.

Born on this day

2001Sapnap, American YouTuber

2001Wander Franco, Dominican baseball player

2000Ja'Marr Chase, American football player

1999Brogan Hay, Scottish footballer

1999Oswaldo Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player

1994Asanoyama Hiroki, Japanese sumo wrestler

1994Justin Bieber, Canadian singer-songwriter

1994Maximilian Philipp, German footballer

1994Tyreek Hill, American football player

1993Jordan Veretout, French footballer

1993Josh McEachran, English footballer

1993Juan Bernat, Spanish footballer

1993Michael Conforto, American baseball player

1993Victor Rask, Swedish ice hockey player

1992Édouard Mendy, Senegalese footballer

1992Tom Walsh, New Zealand athlete

1991Joe Mantiply, American baseball player

1989Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer

1989Daniella Monet, American actress

1989Emeraude Toubia, Canadian-American actress

1989Tenille Dashwood, Australian professional wrestler

1988Jarvis Varnado, American basketball player

1988Trevor Cahill, American baseball player

1987Kesha, American singer-songwriter and actress

1987Kyle O'Reilly, Canadian professional wrestler

1986Alec Utgoff, Ukrainian-English actor

1986Big E, American professional wrestler

1986Jonathan Spector, American soccer player

1985Andreas Ottl, German footballer

1984Alexander Steen, Canadian-Swedish ice hockey player

1984Claudio Bieler, Argentinian footballer

1983Daniel Carvalho, Brazilian footballer

1983Lupita Nyong'o, Kenyan-Mexican actress

1982Travis Diener, American-Italian basketball player

1981Will Power, Australian race car driver

1980Djimi Traoré, French-Malian footballer

1980Sercan Güvenışık, German-Turkish footballer

1980Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer

1979Bruno Langlois, Canadian cyclist

1979Mikkel Kessler, Danish boxer

Died on this day

2025Angie Stone, American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1961)

2025Joey Molland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1947)

2025Pat Ingoldsby, Irish poet and television presenter (born 1942)

2024Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist (born 1955)

2024Iris Apfel, American businesswoman, interior designer, and philanthropist (born 1921)

2023Just Fontaine, French footballer (born 1933)

2020Jack Welch, American business executive (born 1935)

2019Mike Willesee, Australian journalist and producer (born 1942)

2018María Rubio, Mexican television, film and stage actress (born 1934)

2016Carole Achache, French writer, photographer and actress (born 1952)

2015Minnie Miñoso, Cuban-American baseball player and coach (born 1922)

2014Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1922)

2013Bonnie Franklin, American actress, dancer, and singer (born 1944)

2012Andrew Breitbart, American journalist and publisher (born 1969)

2012Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (born 1932)

2010Kristian Digby, English television host and director (born 1977)

2006Jack Wild, English actor (born 1952)

2006Nurasyura binte Mohamed Fauzi, Singaporean rape and murder victim (born 2003)

2006Peter Osgood, English footballer (born 1947)

2004Mian Ghulam Jilani, Pakistani general (born 1914)

1998Archie Goodwin, American author and illustrator (born 1937)

1995César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1920)

1995Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1946)

1993Joseph Christopher, American schizophrenic serial killer (born 1955)

1991Edwin H. Land, American scientist and businessman, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (born 1909)

1989Vasantdada Patil, Indian politician, 5th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1917)

1988Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (born 1907)

1984Jackie Coogan, American actor (born 1914)

1983Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English journalist and author (born 1905)

1980Dixie Dean, English footballer (born 1907)

Quote of the day

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

Lao Tzu

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