March 1 Historical Events
The following events took place on March 1. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 93 events. Showing 31 - 60.
- 1870Marshal F. S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the Paraguayan War.
- 1872Yellowstone National Park is established as the world’s first national park.
- 1873E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
- 1886The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
- 1893Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla demonstrates Wireless power in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1896Battle of Adwa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
- 1896Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
- 1901The Australian Army is formed.
- 1910The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
- 1912Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
- 1914The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
- 1917The U.S. government releases the unencrypted text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
- 1919March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.
- 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.
- 1932Charles Lindbergh’s son is kidnapped.
- 1932Declaration of the founding of Manchukuo.
- 1936The Hoover Dam is completed.
- 1936A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen’s Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
- 1939An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
- 1941World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
- 1941W47NV begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S.
- 1946The Bank of England is nationalised.
- 1947The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
- 1950Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
- 1953Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
- 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.
- 1954Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
- 1956The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
- 1956Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee
- 1958Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.
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