March 1

March 1 is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 305 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
• 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 ending the Siege of Athens and Piraeus.
• 293 – Emperor Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesars. This is considered the beginning of the Tetrarchy, known as the Quattuor Principes Mundi ("Four Rulers of the World").
• 317 – Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made Caesares.
• 350 – Vetranio is asked by Constantina, sister of Constantius II, to proclaim himself Caesar.
• 834 – Emperor Louis the Pious is restored as sole ruler of the Frankish Empire. After his re-accession to the throne, his eldest son Lothair I flees to Burgundy.
• 1457 – The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.
• 1476 – Forces of the Catholic Monarchs engage the combined Portuguese-Castilian armies of Afonso V and Prince John at the Battle of Toro.
• 1562 – Sixty-three Huguenots are massacred in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
• 1565 – The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
• 1628 – Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate 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 the United States.
• 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
• 1700 – Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian calendar on this date in 1753.
• 1713 – The siege and destruction of Fort Neoheroka begins during the Tuscarora War in North Carolina, effectively opening up the colony's interior to European colonization.
• 1781 – The Articles of Confederation goes into effect in the United States.
• 1790 – The first United States census is authorized.
• 1793 – French Revolutionary War: Battle of Aldenhoven during the Flanders Campaign.
• 1796 – The Dutch East India Company is nationalized by the Batavian Republic.
• 1803 – Ohio becomes the 17th state of The United States.
• 1805 – Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.
• 1811 – Leaders of the Mamluk dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.
• 1815 – Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
• 1815 – Georgetown University's congressional charter is signed into law by President James Madison.
• 1836 – A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.
• 1845 – United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
• 1852 – Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton, is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
• 1854 – German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg.
• 1867 – Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
• 1868 – The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
• 1870 – Marshal F. S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the Paraguayan War.
• 1872 – Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
• 1873 – E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
• 1881 – The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
• 1886 – The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
• 1893 – Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1896 – Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
• 1896 – Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
• 1901 – The Australian Army is formed.
• 1910 – The deadliest 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 Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.
• 1919 – March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.
• 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.
• 1932 – Charles Lindbergh's son is kidnapped.
• 1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed.
• 1939 – An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
• 1941 – World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces land on Java, the main island of the Dutch East Indies, at Merak and Banten Bay (Banten), Eretan Wetan (Indramayu) and Kragan (Rembang).
• 1946 – The Bank of England is nationalised.
• 1947 – The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
• 1949 – Indonesian Army recaptures and occupies for six hours its capital city Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
• 1950 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
• 1953 – Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
• 1954 – Nuclear 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.
• 1954 – Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
• 1956 – The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
• 1956 – Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee.
• 1958 – Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first U.S. member of the Roman Curia.
• 1961 – United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
• 1961 – Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
• 1964 – Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
• 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.
• 1971 – President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
• 1972 – The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani Province.
• 1973 – Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
• 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.
• 1983 – First collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced in Zürich, Switzerland.
• 1990 – Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• 1991 – Uprisings against Saddam Hussein begin in Iraq, leading to the death of more than 25,000 people mostly civilian.
• 1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 1998 – Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
• 2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
• 2002 – The Envisat environmental satellite successfully launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket to reach an orbit of 800 km (500 mi) above the Earth, which was the then-largest payload at 10.5 m long and with a diameter of 4.57 m.
• 2003 – Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
• 2003 – The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
• 2005 – In Roper v. Simmons, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional.
• 2006 – English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
• 2007 – Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise High School.
• 2008 – The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections, as a result ten people are killed.
• 2014 – Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.

Births

• 1105 – Alfonso VII, king of León and Castile (d. 1157)
• 1261 – Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (d. 1326)
• 1389 – Antoninus of Florence, Italian archbishop and saint (d. 1459)
• 1432 – Isabella of Coimbra (d. 1455)
• 1456 – Vladislaus II of Hungary (d. 1516)
• 1547 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher and lexicographer (d. 1628)
• 1554 – William Stafford, English courtier and conspirator (d. 1612)
• 1577 – Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland (d. 1635)
• 1597 – Jean-Charles della Faille, Flemish priest and mathematician (d. 1652)
• 1611 – John Pell, English mathematician and linguist (d. 1685)
• 1629 – Abraham Teniers, Flemish painter (d. 1670)
• 1647 – John de Brito, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1693)
• 1657 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian and author (d. 1740)
• 1683 – Tsangyang Gyatso, sixth Dalai Lama (d. 1706)
• 1683 – Caroline of Ansbach, British queen and regent (d. 1737)
• 1732 – William Cushing, American lawyer and judge (d. 1810)
• 1760 – François Buzot, French lawyer and politician (d. 1794)
• 1769 – François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (d. 1796)
• 1807 – Wilford Woodruff, American religious leader, 4th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1898)
• 1810 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1849)
• 1812 – Augustus Pugin, English architect, co-designed the Palace of Westminster (d. 1852)
• 1817 – Giovanni Duprè, Italian sculptor and educator (d. 1882)
• 1821 – Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German bishop and academic (d. 1896)
• 1835 – Philip Fysh, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1919)
• 1837 – William Dean Howells, American novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 1920)
• 1842 – Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter and academic (d. 1901)
• 1848 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-American sculptor and academic (d. 1907)
• 1852 – Théophile Delcassé, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1923)
• 1863 – Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and set designer (d. 1930)
• 1870 – E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and academic (d. 1944)
• 1876 – Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian businessman (d. 1942)
• 1880 – Lytton Strachey, British writer and critic (d. 1932)
• 1886 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian-Swiss painter, poet, and playwright (d. 1980)
• 1888 – Ewart Astill, English cricketer and billiards player (d. 1948)
• 1888 – Fanny Walden, English cricketer and umpire, international footballer, outside right (d. 1949)
• 1889 – Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher (d. 1960)
• 1890 – Theresa Bernstein, Polish-American painter and author (d. 2002)
• 1891 – Ralph Hitz, Austrian-American hotelier (d. 1940)
• 1892 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese author and educator (d. 1927)
• 1893 – Mercedes de Acosta, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1968)
• 1896 – Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1960)
• 1896 – Moriz Seeler, German playwright and producer (d. 1942)
• 1899 – Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German SS officer (d. 1972)
• 1904 – Paul Hartman, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1973)
• 1904 – Glenn Miller, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1944)
• 1905 – Doris Hare, Welsh-English actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2000)
• 1906 – Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000)
• 1909 – Eugene Esmonde, English lieutenant and pilot (d. 1942)
• 1909 – Winston Sharples, American pianist and composer (d. 1978)
• 1910 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
• 1910 – David Niven, English soldier and actor (d. 1983)
• 1912 – Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal (d. 2003)
• 1912 – Boris Chertok, Polish-Russian engineer and academic (d. 2011)
• 1914 – Harry Caray, American sportscaster (d. 1998)
• 1914 – Ralph Ellison, American novelist and literary critic (d. 1994)
• 1917 – Robert Lowell, American poet (d. 1977)
• 1918 – João Goulart, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Brazil (d. 1976)
• 1918 – Gladys Spellman, American educator and politician (d. 1988)
• 1920 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
• 1921 – Cameron Argetsinger, American race car driver and lawyer (d. 2008)
• 1921 – Terence Cooke, American cardinal (d. 1983)
• 1921 – Richard Wilbur, American poet, translator, and essayist (d. 2017)
• 1922 – William Gaines, American publisher (d. 1992)
• 1922 – Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli general and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• 1924 – Arnold Drake, American author and screenwriter (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Deke Slayton, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1993)
• 1926 – Robert Clary, French-American actor and author
• 1926 – Cesare Danova, Italian-American actor (d. 1992)
• 1926 – Pete Rozelle, American businessman and commissioner of the National Football League (d. 1996)
• 1926 – Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1927 – George O. Abell, American astronomer, professor at UCLA, science popularizer, and skeptic (d. 1983)
• 1927 – Harry Belafonte, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1927 – Robert Bork, American lawyer and scholar, United States Attorney General (d. 2012)
• 1928 – Jacques Rivette, French director, screenwriter, and critic (d. 2016)
• 1929 – Georgi Markov, Bulgarian journalist and author (d. 1978)
• 1930 – Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (d. 1980)
• 1934 – Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian painter and sculptor (d. 2005)
• 1934 – Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983)
• 1935 – Robert Conrad, American actor, radio host and stuntman (d. 2020)
• 1936 – Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (d. 1997)
• 1939 – Leo Brouwer, Cuban guitarist, composer, and conductor
• 1939 – Mustansar Hussain Tarar, Pakistani author
• 1940 – Robin Gray, Australian politician, 37th Premier of Tasmania
• 1940 – Robert Grossman, American painter, sculptor, and author (d. 2018)
• 1941 – Robert Hass, American poet
• 1942 – Richard Myers, American general
• 1943 – Gil Amelio, American businessman
• 1943 – José Ángel Iribar, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1943 – Rashid Sunyaev, Russian-German astronomer and physicist
• 1944 – Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of West Bengal
• 1944 – John Breaux, American lawyer and politician
• 1944 – Roger Daltrey, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1944 – Mike d'Abo, English singer
• 1945 – Dirk Benedict, American actor and director
• 1946 – Gerry Boulet, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1990)
• 1946 – Jim Crace, English author and academic
• 1947 – Alan Thicke, Canadian-American actor and composer (d. 2016)
• 1951 – Sergei Kourdakov, Russian-American KGB agent (d. 1973)
• 1952 – Dave Barr, Canadian golfer
• 1952 – Nevada Barr, American actress and author
• 1952 – Leigh Matthews, Australian footballer, coach, and sportscaster
• 1952 – Jerri Nielsen, American physician and explorer (d. 2009)
• 1952 – Martin O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager
• 1953 – Sinan Çetin, Turkish actor, director, and producer
• 1953 – Carlos Queiroz, Portuguese footballer and manager
• 1954 – Catherine Bach, American actress
• 1954 – Ron Howard, American actor, director, and producer
• 1954 – Rod Reddy, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1956 – Tim Daly, American actor, director, and producer
• 1956 – Dalia Grybauskaitė, Lithuanian politician, 6th President of Lithuania
• 1958 – Nik Kershaw, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1958 – Wayne B. Phillips, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1959 – Nick Griffin, English politician
• 1961 – Mike Rozier, American football player
• 1962 – Russell Coutts, New Zealand sailor
• 1962 – Mark Gardner, American baseball player
• 1962 – Bill Leen, American bass player and producer
• 1963 – Bryan Batt, American actor and singer
• 1963 – Maurice Benard, American actor
• 1963 – Ron Francis, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1964 – Clinton Gregory, American singer-songwriter and fiddler
• 1964 – Paul Le Guen, French footballer and manager
• 1965 – Booker T, American wrestler and sportscaster
• 1965 – Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey
• 1966 – Paul Hollywood, English chef
• 1966 – Zack Snyder, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 – George Eads, American actor
• 1967 – Aron Winter, Suriname-Dutch footballer and manager
• 1969 – Javier Bardem, Spanish actor and producer
• 1970 – Jason V Brock, American author, filmmaker, artist, scholar and musician
• 1971 – Thomas Adès, English pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1971 – Ivan Cleary, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1973 – Jack Davenport, English actor
• 1973 – Anton Gunn, American academic and politician
• 1973 – Chris Webber, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1974 – Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor
• 1976 – Travis Kvapil, American race car driver
• 1977 – Rens Blom, Dutch pole vaulter
• 1977 – Esther Cañadas, Spanish actress and model
• 1978 – Jensen Ackles, American actor and director
• 1979 – Mikkel Kessler, Danish boxer
• 1979 – Bruno Langlois, Canadian cyclist
• 1980 – Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer
• 1980 – Abhay K, Indian poet and diplomat
• 1980 – Sercan Güvenışık, German-Turkish footballer
• 1980 – Djimi Traoré, Malian footballer
• 1981 – Will Power, Australian race car driver
• 1982 – Juan Manuel Ortiz, Spanish footballer
• 1983 – Daniel Carvalho, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 – Lupita Nyong'o, Mexican-Kenyan actress
• 1983 – Davey Richards, American wrestler
• 1983 – Anthony Tupou, Australian rugby league player
• 1984 – Naima Mora, American model and actress
• 1984 – Alexander Steen, Canadian-Swedish ice hockey player
• 1985 – Andreas Ottl, German footballer
• 1986 – Big E, American wrestler
• 1987 – Kesha, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1988 – Yang Hyeon-jong, South Korean baseball player
• 1989 – Tenille Tayla, Australian professional wrestler
• 1989 – Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer
• 1993 – Nathan Brown, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 – Michael Conforto, American baseball player
• 1993 – Kurt Mann, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 – Josh McEachran, English footballer
• 1994 – Justin Bieber, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1994 – Tyreek Hill, American football player

Deaths

• 492 – Felix III, pope of the Catholic Church
• 589 – David, Welsh bishop and saint
• 965 – Leo VIII, pope of the Catholic Church
• 977 – Rudesind, Galician bishop (b. 907)
• 991 – En'yū, Japanese emperor (b. 959)
• 1058 – Ermesinde of Carcassonne, countess and regent of Barcelona (b. 972)
• 1131 – Stephen II, king of Hungary and Croatia (b. 1101)
• 1233 – Thomas, count of Savoy (b. 1178)
• 1244 – Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, Welsh noble, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
• 1320 – Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan, Chinese emperor (b. 1286)
• 1383 – Amadeus VI, count of Savoy (b. 1334)
• 1510 – Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. 1450)
• 1546 – George Wishart, Scottish minister and martyr (b. 1513)
• 1620 – Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (b. 1567)
• 1633 – George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)
• 1643 – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1583)
• 1661 – Richard Zouch, English judge and politician (b. 1590)
• 1666 – Ecaterina Cercheza, princess consort of Moldavia (b. 1620)
• 1697 – Francesco Redi, Italian physician and poet (b. 1626)
• 1734 – Roger North, English lawyer and author (b. 1653)
• 1768 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and author (b. 1694)
• 1773 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect, designed the Palace of Caserta (b. 1700)
• 1792 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
• 1792 – Angelo Emo, Venetian admiral and statesman (b. 1731)
• 1841 – Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (b. 1764)
• 1862 – Peter Barlow, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1776)
• 1875 – Tristan Corbière, French poet and educator (b. 1845)
• 1882 – Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1818)
• 1884 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and academic (b. 1820)
• 1906 – José María de Pereda, Spanish author (b. 1833)
• 1911 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1914 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, English soldier and politician, 8th Governor General of Canada (b. 1845)
• 1920 – John H. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician (b. 1842)
• 1922 – Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
• 1932 – Frank Teschemacher, American Jazz musician (b. 1906)
• 1936 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian author and poet (b. 1871)
• 1938 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1863)
• 1940 – Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)
• 1942 – George S. Rentz, American commander (b. 1882)
• 1943 – Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863)
• 1952 – Mariano Azuela, Mexican physician and author (b. 1873)
• 1966 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1903)
• 1974 – Bobby Timmons, American pianist and composer (b. 1935)
• 1976 – Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (b. 1910)
• 1978 – Paul Scott, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
• 1979 – Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi-Kurdistan politician (b. 1903)
• 1980 – Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch-American model and businesswoman, founded Wilhelmina Models (b. 1940)
• 1980 – Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
• 1983 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English journalist and author (b. 1905)
• 1984 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1988 – Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (b. 1907)
• 1989 – Vasantdada Patil, Indian politician, 5th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1917)
• 1991 – Edwin H. Land, American scientist and businessman, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (b. 1909)
• 1995 – César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1920)
• 1995 – Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1946)
• 1998 – Archie Goodwin, American author and illustrator (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Mian Ghulam Jilani, Pakistani general (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
• 2006 – Jack Wild, English actor (b.1952)
• 2010 – Kristian Digby, English television host and director (b. 1977)
• 2012 – Andrew Breitbart, American journalist and publisher (b. 1969)
• 2012 – Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Bonnie Franklin, American actress, dancer, and singer (b. 1944)
• 2014 – Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2015 – Minnie Miñoso, Cuban-American baseball player and coach (b. 1922)
• 2018 – María Rubio, Mexican television, film and stage actress (b. 1934)
• 2019 – Mike Willesee, Australian journalist and producer (b. 1942)

Holidays and observances

• Beer Day, marked the end of beer prohibition in 1989 (Iceland)
• Christian feast day:
  • Agnes Tsao Kou Ying (one of the Martyr Saints of China)
  • Albin
  • David
  • Eudokia of Heliopolis
  • Pope Felix III
  • Leoluca
  • Luperculus
  • Monan
  • Rudesind
  • Suitbert
  • March 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Commemoration of Mustafa Barzani's Death (Iraqi Kurdistan)
• Earliest day on which Casimir Pulaski Day can fall, while March 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday in March. (Illinois)
• Earliest day on which Children's Day can fall, while March 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday in March. (New Zealand)
• Earliest day on which Grandmother's Day can fall, while March 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday in March. (France)
• Earliest day on which Laetare Sunday can fall, while April 4 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent. (Western Christianity), and its related observances:
  • Carnaval de la Laetare (Stavelot)
  • Mothering Sunday (United Kingdom)
• Heroes' Day (Paraguay)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992.
• National “Cursed Soldiers” Remembrance Day (Poland)
• National Pig Day (United States)
• Remembrance Day (Marshall Islands)
• Saint David's Day or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant (Wales and Welsh communities)
• Samiljeol (South Korea)
• Self-injury Awareness Day
• Southeastern Europe celebration of the beginning of spring:
  • Baba Marta Day (Bulgaria)
  • Mărțișor (Romania and Moldova)
• The final day (fourth or fifth) of Ayyám-i-Há (Bahá'í Faith)
• World Civil Defence Day
• Yap Day (Yap State)
• Zero Discrimination Day

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• Today in Canadian History