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.
- 1961United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
- 1961Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
- 1962American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York.
- 1964Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
- 1966Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet’s surface.
- 1966The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
- 1971A bomb explodes in a men’s room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
- 1971President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
- 1972The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani Province.
- 1973Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
- 1974Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
- 1981Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
- 1989The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
- 1990Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- 1992Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- 1995Prime Minister of Poland Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy.
- 1995Yahoo! is incorporated.
- 1998Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
- 1999Ottawa Treaty enters into force.
- 2000The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
- 2000Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
- 2002U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
- 2002The 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).
- 2002The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by the euro (€).
- 2003Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
- 2003The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
- 2004Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum becomes President of Iraq.
- 2005U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional marking a change in “national standards,”.
- 2006English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
- 2007Tornadoes 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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