March 1

March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). There are 305 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events

1.1 BC
1.2 AD

1.2.1 First thousand years
1.2.2 Fourteenth century
1.2.3 Fifteenth century
1.2.4 Sixteenth century
1.2.5 Seventeenth century
1.2.6 Eighteenth century
1.2.7 Nineteenth century
1.2.8 Twentieth century

1.3 Future
1.4 Other

2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 Seasons beginning March 1
6 Year Beginning March 1

Events

BC

29 BC - Horace writes the ode Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen.

First thousand years

286 - Maximian proclaimed junior Roman emperor.
293 - Constantius Chlorus and Galerius proclaimed junior Roman emperors.
492 - Pope Gelasius I succeeds Pope Felix III
499 - Pope Symmachus makes Antipope Laurentius bishop of Nocera in Campania.
705 - Pope John VII succeeds Pope John VI
965 - Pope Benedict V is put in place of Pope Leo VIII by the people

Fourteenth century

1444 - Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg proclaimed commander of the Albanian resistance

Fifteenth century

1524/5 - Giovanni da Verrazano lands near Cape Fear (approx. date is March 1)
1562 - Over 1,000 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Vassy, France marking the start of the First War of Religion.
1565 - the city of Rio de Janeiro is founded

Sixteenth century

1628 - writs were issued in February by Charles I of England that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date
1633 - Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
1642 - Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine) becomes the first incorporated city in America.
1692 - The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony with the charging of four women with witchcraft.

Seventeenth century

1700 - Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to reform into the Gregorian calendar.
1712 - Sweden reverts to the Julian calendar as March 1 follows on February 30.
1753 - Sweden introduces the Gregorian Calendar as March 1 follows on February 17.
1763 - Charles Townshend becomes President of the Board of Trade in the United Kingdom government
1781 - The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
1793 - John Langdon becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate until March 3
1790 - The first United States census is authorized
1799 - Federalist James Ross becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate

Eighteenth century

1803 - Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state, retroactive from August 7, 1953.
1805 - Justice Samuel Chase acquitted of impeachment charges by the U.S. Senate
1811 - Leaders of the Mameluke dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Mohammed Ali.
1815 - Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
1819 - USS Columbus launched
1831 - Democrat Samuel Smith becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate until December 4
1836 - Convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos to deliberate independence from Mexico
1836 - Antonio García Gutiérrez's play El Trovador played for the first time
1840 - William Hobson, first governor of New Zealand suffers a stroke
1840 - Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France
1843 - Walter Forward ends his term of office as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, serving under President John Tyler
1843 - Zürich issue stamps, making it the second type of stamp in the world
1845 - President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
1851 - Victor Hugo gives speech at the French national assembly and uses the phrase United States of Europe several times
1852 - Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1854 - German pyschologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears, two years later his remains are found in the canal near Charlottenburg
1864 - Alejandro Mon Menéndez takes office as Prime Minister of Spain
1867 - Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state.
1867 - Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
1869 - North German Confederation issues 10gr and 30gr value stamps, printed on goldbeater's skin
1872 - Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
1873 - E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York, start production of the first practical typewriter.
1881 - English author James Spedding knocked down by a London cab, dies 8 days later from erysipelas
1890 - Léon Bourgeois succeeds Ernest Constans as French Minister of the Interior
1892 - Theodoros Deligiannis ends his term as Prime Minister of Greece and Konstantinos Konstantopoulos takes office
1894 - Thomas McGreevy, Canadian politician and contractor, is released from prison after serving time for defrauding the government
1895 - William L. Wilson is appointed United States Postmaster General, serving under President Grover Cleveland
1896 - Battle of Adowa, in which Ethiopia defended its independence against Italy, begins. The Italian invasion with 100 000 troops was defeated.
1896 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
1899 - in Afghanistan Capt. George Roos-Keppel makes a sudden attack on a predatory band of Chamkannis that have been raiding in the Kurram Valley and captures 100 prisoners with 3,000 head of cattle.

Nineteenth century

1901 - 28,923 colonial soldiers, comprising of 1,457 professional soldiers, 18,603 paid militia and 8,863 unpaid volunteers are transferred to the new Australian Army, however the individual units continued to be administered under the various colonial Acts.
1902 - Rear Admiral Frank F. Wildes takes command of the USS Kentucky (BB-6)
1905 - Australian Conservative leader Richard Butler takes office as Premier of South Australia
1910 – Avalanche in Cascade Range sweeps two trains into a canyon - 96 dead
1910 - USS South Carolina commissioned
1911 - Jose Ordonez is elected President of Uruguay.
1912 - Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
1912 - Georg Ritter von Trapp, head of the famous Austrian singing family memorialized in the musical The Sound of Music marries Agathe
1916 - Liberal British Columbia Premier Harlan Carey Brewster term in office ends
1917 - U.S. government releases the plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public
1917 - Japanese city Omuta, Fukuoka is founded
1918 - German submarine Unterseeboot 19 (U-19) sinks HMS Calgarian off Rathlin Island
1919 - March 1st Movement against Japanese colonial rule in Korea.
1920 - Hungarian Admiral and statesman Miklós Horthy becomes the the Regent of Hungary
1921 - the city Kiryu, located in Gunma, Japan, is founded.
1923 - USS Connecticut decommissioned
1924 - Diana Vreeland, fashion editor and columnist, marries Thomas Reed Vreeland at St. Thomas's church in New York
1925 - Earthquake in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada
1925 - Edgar Varèse's Intégrales is premiered in New York City
1931 - Henry Pu Yi, former Emperor of China, is proclaimed Emperor of the puppet state of Manchukuo by Japan.
1931 - USS Arizona (BB-39) placed back in full commission after a refit
1932 - The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
1933 - Kyriakos Varvaressos becomes Deputy Governor to the Bank of Greece
1934 - John H. Russell, Jr is appointed Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
1935 - Jamil al-Midfai becomes Prime minister of Iraq for the second time
1936 - Hoover Dam is completed.
1940 - Walter Forward ends his term of office as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, serving under President John Tyler
1941 - World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact thus joining the Axis powers.
1941 - W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station.
1941 - Arthur L. Bristol becomes Rear Admiral for the U.S. Navy's Support Force, Atlantic Fleet
1943 - "Panzer General" Heinz Guderian becomes the Inspector-General of the Armoured Troops for the German Army durinng World War II
1944 - USS Tarawa and USS Kearsarge laid down
1945 - Jesse Holman Jones starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Commerce, serving under President Franklin D. Roosevelt
1946 - The Bank of England passes into private ownership.
1947 - The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
1947 - Wernher von Braun marries his first cousin, 18-year-old Maria von Quirstorp.
1947 - Japanese city Tsushima, Aichi is founded
1949 - World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis announces his retirement from boxing.
1949 - Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch
1950 - West South Baptist Church in Bestridge, Nebraska blows up
1950 - Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by giving them top secrete atomic bomb data.
1950 - acting Chinese President Li Tsung-jen ends his term in office
1950 - Chiang Kai-shek resumes his duties as Chinese President after moving his government to Taipei, Taiwan
1951 - the city Yaizu, located in Shizuoka, Japan, is founded
1953 - after an all-night dinner with interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body. He dies four days later
1953 - Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg made the deputy constable and lieutenant governor of Windsor Castle
1954 - Nuclear testing: Officials announce that an American hydrogen bomb test had been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
1954 - Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
1954 - the city Namerikawa, located in Toyama, Japan is founded
1956 - the International Air Transport Association finalises a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization
1957 - U Nu becomes Prime Minister of Burma
1957 - Arturo Lezama becomes President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay
1957 - Sud Aviation forms from a merger between SNCASE (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Est) and SNCASO (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest)
1958 - Dr Arturo Frondizi becomes President of Argentina
1958 - Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, ninth bishop (fourth archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of Chicago, appointed Pro-Perfect of the Propagaion of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia
1959 - USS Tuscaloosa, USS New Orleans, USS Tennessee and USS West Virginia struck from the Naval Vessel Register
1959 - Japanese cities Uji, Kyoto and Muroto, Kocki are founded
1960 - USS Gato struck from the Naval Vessel Register
1961 - President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1961 - first elections held in Uganda and it becomes self-governing
1962 - an American Airlines Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff at John F. Kennedy International Airport after its rudder separates from the tail, with loss of all life on board
1963 - Yoko Ono's marriage to American Christian fundamentalist filmmaker Tony Cox is annulled
1963 - first appearance of John Rockerduck (a character in the Scrooge McDuck Universe) in Italian story Zio Paperone e il kiwi volante ("Uncle Scrooge and the flying kiwi") by Gian Paolo Barosso and Giorgio Bordini
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.
1967 - USS Tarawa struck from the Naval Vessel Register
1967 - USS Albany decommissioned in order to go undergo extensive modifications
1967 - the city Hatogaya, located in Saitama, Japan is founded
1968 - Clark Clifford starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Defense, serving under President Lyndon Johnson
1968 - Alexander Buel Trowbridge ends his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Commerce, serving under President Lyndon Johnson
1968 - United States Navy George Washington class fleet ballistic missile submarine USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) completes her 22nd patrol at Holy Loch.
1968 - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat first presented as a cantata at the Colet Court School in London
1969 - Major league baseballer Mickey Mantle announces his retirement.
1969 - Dad's Army episode Operation Kilt is first broadcast
1969 - During a performance at Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium, Jim Morrison of the Doors is arrested for exposing himself during the show. Morrison is officially charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, indecent behavior, open profanity and public drunkenness.
1969 - John Kerry officially leaves active duty in Vietnam
1971 - Bomb explodes in men's room in the White House - Weather Underground claims responsibility.
1971 - Pakistani President Yahya Khan indefinitely postponed the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
1971 - Canadian John Robarts ends his term of office as 17th premier of Ontario
1972 - Thai province of Yasothon created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province
1973 - The New York Joffrey Ballet's Deuce Coupe Ballet opens. The ballet is set entirely around music by The Beach Boys.
1974 - Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
1974 - Pierre Messmer finishes his first office as Prime Minister of France
1975 - Colour television transmissions begin in Australia
1976 - Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status for those sentenced for crimes relating to the civil violence in Northern Island
1977 - Sara Lowndes Dylan files for divorce from her husband of 11 years, Bob Dylan.
1978 - Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery.
1978 - Timbuktu Broadway production opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre
1978 - USSR selects astronauts for the 1978 Intercosmos Group
1980 - Voyager 1 probe confirms that Janus (moon of Saturn) exists
1980 - Patti Smith marries former MC5 member Fred Sonic Smith
1981 - Final IRA Hunger Strike begins in Northern Ireland.
1982 - Jimmy Page's soundtrack album Death Wish II is released by Swan Song Records
1983 - Balearic Islands and Madrid become autonomous communities of Spain
1983 - Swatch introduce their first timepieces
1983 - Duran Duran's album Rio goes gold
1988 - Anthony M. Frank is appointed United States Postmaster General
1989 - Louis Wade Sullivan starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Commerce, serving under President George H. W. Bush
1989 - James D. Watkins starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Energy, serving under President George H. W. Bush
1989 - The Berne Convention is ratified and enters into force with regard to the United States
1989 - The Politieke Partij Radicalen, Pacifistisch Socialistische Patij, Communistische Partij Nederland and the Evangelische Volks Partij amalgamate to form Netherlands political party the GroenLinks (GL, GreenLeft)
1990 - A fire at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo kills 16.
1990 - Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
1991 - Ballistic Missile Submarine USS-Lafayette (now ex-Lafayette) starts to be deactivated
1991 - Ethan-Allen-class submarine USS-Sam Houston (now ex-Sam Houston SSBN-609) starts to be deactivated
1991 - Clayton Keith Yeutter finishes as the United States Secretary of Agriculture, under the George H. W. Bush administration
1992 - After a majority of Muslim and Croatian communities vote for Bosnian independence, Bosnian Serb snipers fire on civilians.
1992 - boxer Kostya Tszyu beats Darrell Hiles by a knockout in one round
1993 - Pet Lamb releases EP Paranoid from the Neck Down
1994 - South Africa cedes Walvis Bay to Nambia
1994 - Mary Ellen Withrow begins term of office as Treasurer of the United States, serving under President Bill Clinton
1995 - Attack Submarine USS-Seahorse (now ex-Seahorse (SSN-669))) starts to be deactivated
1995 - Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Jozef Oleksy
1995 - Daniel Sleator announces his intentions to commercialize the Internet Chess Server (ICS) himself, renames it the Internet Chess Club, or ICC, and charges a yearly membership fee of $49 to howls of protest
1995 - R.E.M drummer Bill Berry leaves the stage during a Switzerland concert after suffering a brain aneurysm, which requires immediate surgery
1995 - Muntinlupa City, Phillipines officially becomes a city
1997 - the band Phish record Slip Stich and Pass live at Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany
1997 - Northern Ireland band Ash release the single Barbie
1998 - Attack Submarine USS-Sea Devil (now ex-Sea Devil (SSN-664)) starts to be deactivated
1999 - One of four bombs detonated in Lusaka, Zambia, destroys the Angolan Embassy.
1999 - Hutu rebels kill eight tourists in Uganda.
1999 - The Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines comes into force.
1999 - Sony Music Distribution raises wholesale prices on audio Compact Discs by 8 cents

Twentieth century

2000 - the Constitution of Finland is rewritten
2000 - Collin Raye is awarded the Artist Humanitarian Award from Country Radio Broadcasters Inc.
2000 - Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
2001 - an Israeli killed in a suicide bombing in a service taxi.
2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: In eastern Afghanistan, Operation Anaconda begins.
2002 - Vladimir Putin meets with Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze in Kazakhstan and pledges his support for the American military initiative against the War on Terrorism
2002 - 28 people die in continuing violence in Ahmedabad. Police shoot and kill five while attempting to control rioters.
2002 - the Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800km above the Earth on it's 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500kg.
2002 - Space Shuttle Columbia flies Hubble Space Telescope service mission (STS-109)
2002 - Peseta discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced with the euro (€)
2003 - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of September 11 attacks, is detained by Pakistani authorities in Rawalpindi
2003 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The United Arab Emirates calls for Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to step down to avoid war. The sentiment is later echoed by Bahrain and Kuwait.
2003 - Iraq disarmament crisis: the Turkish speaker of Parliament voids the vote accepting U.S troops involved in the planned invasion of Iraq into Turkey on constitutional grounds. 264 votes for and 250 against accepting 62,000 US military personnel do not constitute the necessary majority under the Turkish constitution, due to 19 abstentions.
2003 - Attack Submarine USS-Lapon (now ex-Lapon SSN-661) starts to be deactivated
2003 - the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the United States Customs Service, and the United States Secret Service moves to the United States Department of Homeland Security
2003 - boxer Roy Jones Jr beats John Ruiz to become WBA champion
2003 - America's Cup race postponed after yachts wait two hours for better weather
2003 - Nicoleta Alexandru wins the Eurovision Song Contest at Riga for her song "Don't Break My Heart"
2004 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former President of Haiti, announces that his resignation of February 29 was forced, and that he was forced to leave the country by American soldiers.
2004 - Terry Nichols convicted of state murder charges and accomplice to the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh has his trial started in McAlester, Oklahoma
2004 - Britney Spears releases In The Zone single, "Toxic"
2004 - The Price is Right airs it's 6,000 episode
2004 - Vladimir Putin nominates Mikhail Fradkov for the position as prime minister of Russia.
2004 - the Bush Administration officially admits to the implementation of a Continuity of Operations plan following the September 11, 2001 attacks
2004 - notorious convicted criminal Marc Dutroux starts trial in Belgium
2004 - Tauranga, New Zealand officially becomes a city, for the second time
2004 - Gerry Doherty begins office as General Secretary for the trade union the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
2004 - Yahoo! announces that it will practice paid inclusion for its search service.
2004 - Beck releases the album Mellow Gold
2004 - SCO Group announces it has reached a license agreement with EV1Servers.net, which allows EV1Servers to use some of SCO's "intellectual property". See also SCO v. IBM
2004 - Punycode adopted by the national registrars of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
2004 - Canadian Jean Pelletier fired as head of VIA Rail
2004 - Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq
2004 - the 6 towns on the Japanese island of Tsushima are unified to create Tsushima city

See also Afghanistan 2003 and Afghanistan 2004 (part of the Timeline of Afghan history)

Future

2006 - Attack Submarines USS-Lapon to start to be deactivated. Los Angeles class submarines USS Indianapolis, USS-Birmingham, USS-New York City and USS-Atlanta to also start to be deactivated
2007 - USS-Baltimore to be deactivated.

Other

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama runs from March 2 to March 1, rather than being the calendar year.
From February 14, 1936, to March 1, 1945, AG Weser launched a total of 162 U-boats.
The first International Symposium on Taiwan Sign Language Linguistics was held on March 1-2, 2003 at Chung Cheng University in Minhsiung, Chiayi Co., Taiwan.

Births

1104/5 - Alfonso VII, king of Castile († 1157)
1445 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance († 1510)
1456 - Wadysaw Jagielloczyk, king of Bohemia and Hungary, († 1516)
1474 - Angela Merici, founder of the Ursulines, († 1540)
1528 - Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria
1610 - Johann Schup (Schuppius), poet and historian
1630 - Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, Flemish painter
1683 - Caroline of Brandenburg-Amsbach, († 1737), wife of George II
1709 - Josef Gurecky, composer
1711 - Peregrinus Pogl, composer
1760 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader († 1794 suicide)
1769 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French General († 1796)
1771 - Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer
1807 - Wilford Woodruff, president of the Latter Day Saints church († 1898)
1810 - Frédéric Chopin, composer and pianist, († 1849)
1817 - Giovanni Dupre, sculptor
1821 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop († 1896)
1828 - Vittorio Bersezio, Italian playwright
1837 - William Dean Howells, writer, historian, editor, politician, († 1920)
1852 - Théophile Delcassé, French statesman († 1923)
1858 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher († 1918)
1860 - Joe Natus, musician
1865 - Abe Iso, Japanese politician († 1949)
1871 - Ben Harney, US composer and ragtime pianist († 1938)
1876 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian IOC president, († 1942)
1879 - Alexandur Stamboliyski, Bulgarian politician († 1923)
1880 - Lytton Strachey, English critic († 1932)
1880 - Giles Lytton Strachey British writer and biographer († 1932)
1886 - Oskar Kokoschka, painter, graphic artist and poet, († 1980)
1892 - Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer († 1927)
1893 - Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite († 1968)
1896 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist and composer († 1960)
1901 - Pietro Spiggia, Italian poet
1904 - Glenn Miller, bandleader, († 1944)
1906 - Phạm Văn Ðồng;, Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1954 through 1976, and was Prime Minister of reunified Vietnam from 1976 until he retired in 1986 († 2000)
1909 - David Niven, actor, († 1983)
1911 - Harry Golombek, English chess grandmaster († 1995)
1914 - Ralph Ellison, writer, († 1994)
1917 - Robert Lowell, poet, († 1977)
1917 - Harry Caray, TV and radio broadcaster for three Major League Baseball teams († 1998)
1918 - Joao Goulart, president of Brazil (1961-March 31, 1964) († 1976)
1918 - Roger Delgado, British actor († 1973)
1920 - William Dean Howells, writer († 1920)
1921 - Jack Clayton, film director
1921 - Richard Wilbur, American poet
1921 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, tenth bishop (seventh archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York († 1983)
1923 - Kuczka Péter, Hungarian writer, poet and Science Fiction editor († 1999)
1924 - Deke Slayton, astronaut († 1993)
1926 - Alvin "Pete" Rozelle, commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) from January 1960 to November 1989 († 1996)
1922 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, († 1995)
1922 - William Gaines, publisher, founder of MAD Magazine, († 1992)
1926 - Alvin "Pete" Rozelle, commissioner of the National Football League († 1996)
1927 - Harry Belafonte, musician and actor
1927 - Robert Bork, law professor
1928 - Jacques Rivette, director
1928 - Dr. Seymour Papert, MIT mathematician, educator, inventor of LOGO programming language, Artificial Intelligence researcher
1929 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident, († 1978)
1933 - Jakob Maria Mierscheid, ficticious politician in the German Bundestag since 1983
1935 - Robert Conrad, actor
1935 - Judith Rossner, writer
1937 - Jed Allan, actor
1939 - Warren Davis, The Monotones
1942 - Richard Bowman Myers, General of the United States Air Force, current Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
1942 - Gabriel Hudon, FLQ terrorist
1943 - Gil Amelio, former CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple Computer, now a venture capitalist
1944 - Roger Daltrey, musician ("The Who")
1944 - Mike D'Abo, rock vocalist of band Mannfred Mann
1944 - John Breaux, United States Senator from Louisiana
1945 - Dirk Benedict, movie and television actor, perhaps best known for playing the character of "Face" in the television series The A-Team
1946 - Tony Ashton, British rock musician
1948 - Winston Rodney, aka Burning Spear, Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician
1952 - Steven Barnes, science fiction writer
1953 - Richard Bruton, Irish Fine Gael politician and economist
1954 - Ron Howard, actor, director, producer
1954 - Catherine Bach, actress
1963 - Dan Michaels, producer, saxophonist, member of the rock band The Choir and also The Swirling Eddies, owner of Galaxy21 Music.
1964 - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, suspected military head of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda (his birth date is also reported to be April 14, 1965)
1965 - Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey
1967 - Stuart Conquest, English chess player
1967 - Aron Winter, Dutch soccer player
1969 - Javier Bardem, actor
1969 - Rob Janssen, baseball player
1969 - Dafydd Ieuan, drummer with the band Super Furry Animals
1973 - Ryan Peake, guitarist with the band Nickelback
1974 - Mark-Paul Gosselaar, actor (Saved by the Bell, NYPD Blue)
1980 - Ron Weasley, fictional character in the Harry Potter series

Deaths

1244 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, eldest, illegitimate son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
1383 - Amadeus VI of Savoy, Count of Savoy (b. 1334)
1546 - George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (b 1513)
1620 - Thomas Campion, poet and composer (b. 1567)
1633 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)
1661 - Richard Zouch, English jurist (b. 1590)
1697 - Francesco Redi, physician, refuted abiogenesis (b. 1626)
1734 - Roger North, biographer (b. 1653)
1768 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
1792 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
1862 - Peter Barlow, mathematician (b. 1776)
1879 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
1884 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
1898 - George Bruce Malleson, Indian officer and author (b. 1825)
1911 - J. H. van 't Hoff, Dutch physical and organic chemist, the winner of the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1852)
1912 - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer, best remembered for his work with Gilbert & Sullivan;. (b. 1847)
1914 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)
1920 - John H. Bankhead, United States Senator (b. 1842)
1920 - Joseph Trumpeldor, early Zionist activist (b. 1880)
1922 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish football player (b. 1892)
1924 - Louise-Marie Amélie, daughter of Leopold II of Belgium, wife of Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1858)
1932 - Frank Teschemacher, jazz clarinetist and alto-saxophonist
1938 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, dramatist, daredevil, war hero and politician (b. 1863)
1945 - Umenosuke Bessho, Japanese writer (b. 1871)
1966 - Fritz Houtermans, physicist (b. 1903)
1970 - Lucille Hegamin, U.S. singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
1979 - Mustafa Barzani, leader of Kurdistan Democratic Party (b. 1903)
1984 - Jackie Coogan, actor (b. 1914)
1988 - Joe Besser, member of the Three Stooges (b. 1907)
1991 - Edwin Herbert Land, inventor (b. 1909)
1995 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist, anchor, and director of ORTV (b. 1956)
2000 - Dennis Danell guitarist of band Social Distortion
2002 - Doreen Waddell, vocalist of bands Soul II Soul and KLF
2003 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, former president of El Salvador (1967-1972) (b. 1917)

Holidays and observances

Korea - Independence Movement Day (Samiljeol; 삼일절)
Roman Empire - Matronalia in honor of Juno
Roman Empire - Feriae Marti in honor of Mars
Roman Empire - New Year
Roman Empire - The sacred fire of Rome was renewed (See Vesta)
Saint David's Day (National Holiday of Wales)
Historically, March 1st was considered to be the beginning of the year. The names of some months reflect this. (September = Seventh, October = Eighth, November = Ninth, December = Tenth). (see New Year) If the days of the year were counted from March 1, till the next March 1, each date of the year would have the same number every year, unlike counting from January 1.
World Day of Prayer
Bahá'í Faith - Last Day (4 or 5) of Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) - days in the Bahá'í calendar devoted to service and gift giving.
Labour day - Western Australia
Eight Hours Day - Tasmania, Australia
Feast of Saint David - United Kingdom

Seasons beginning March 1

In Denmark, spring begins on March 1, while in Australia autumn begins on March 1.

Year Beginning March 1

If one begins each year on March 1, then each date will have the same day number in this year, regardless of whether it's a leap year or not (e.g. December 25 is always day 300). Also the months follow a regular 5-month cycle of 153 days, till the end of February. This can be seen by listing the number of days in the months thus:

Mar 31 Aug 31 Jan 31 Apr 30 Sep 30 Feb 28/29 May 31 Oct 31 Jun 30 Nov 30 Jul 31 Dec 31

This regularity is sometimes used in calendar calculations.

February 28 - February 29 - (February 30) - March 2 - February 1 - April 1 -- listing of all days