About March 1
March 1, 2024 is the 61st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 305 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 334 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 1
- 86 BC –Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, removing the tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI of Pontus.
- 293 –Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus as Caesar to Maximian.
- 1642 –Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
- 1803 –Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
- 1815 –Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
- 1847 –The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment.
- 1867 –Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
- 1873 –E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
- 1901 –The Australian Army was formed.
- 1950 –Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
- 1956 –Formation of the National People’s Army
- 1958 –Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.
- 1971 –President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
- 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.
- 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 (9.5 tons).
- 2002 –The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by the euro (€).
- 2003 –The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
- 2007 –“Squatters” are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots.
- 2007 –Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths are at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
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