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March 1 Historical Events

The following events took place on March 1. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 93 events. Showing 61 - 90.

  • 1961
    United States President 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.
  • 1998
    Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
  • 1999
    Ottawa Treaty enters into force.
  • 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 km 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
    Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum becomes President of Iraq.
  • 2005
    U.S. 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 Enterprise High School (Alabama).

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