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.
- 752 BC –Romulus, legendary first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following The Rape of the Sabine Women.
- 1593 –The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden.
- 1852 –Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
- 1872 –Yellowstone National Park is established as the world’s first national park.
- 1910 –The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
- 1914 –The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
- 1917 –The U.S. government releases the unencrypted text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
- 1921 –The 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.
- 1941 –W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S.
- 1954 –Nuclear 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.
- 1956 –Formation of the National People’s Army
- 1961 –Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
- 1962 –American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York.
- 1973 –Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
- 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.
- 1995 –Yahoo! is incorporated.
- 2002 –The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by the euro (€).
- 2004 –Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq.
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