01 March In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, on March 01, the day number in a year is 60 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 61. March 01 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1476	War of the Castilian Succession-Although the Battle of Toro Was militarily inconclusive, it assured Ferdinand and Isabella the throne of Castile, forming the basis for modern Spain.
1565	Rio de Janeiro was founded by the Portuguese as São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro.
1633	Samuel de Champlain reclaimed his role as commander of NewFrance on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
1640	Britain got permission to open trade center in Madras.
1692	Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba were brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning the Salem witch trials.
1711	Spectator's "" publication began in London.
1763	Charles Townshend became Chairman of the Board of Trade in the British Government.
1780	Pennsylvania became the first American state to be enslaved.
1781	The Articles of Confederation, the first governing constitutionof the United States, was ratified, legally uniting what were originallyseveral independent states into a new sovereign federation.
1781	The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
1785	Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agreement was organized.
1790	The first authorized census of the United States took place; It was held later that year.
1792	Francis II took over as the last emperor of the Holy Roman Emperor.
1803	Ohio was accepted as the 17th state of the United States.
1811	Muhammad Ali Pasha, Wali of the Ottoman province of Egypt, killed the leaders of the Mamluk Sultanate to seize power,founding a dynasty that would last until 1952.
1840	Adolphe Thiers became Prime Minister of France.
1847	The death penalty was formally abolished in the state of Michigan.
1851	Victor Hugo used the United States of Europe in a speech at the French National Assembly.
1872	Yellowstone National Park, located primarily in the U.S. stateof Wyoming, the first national park in the world, was established.
1872	Yellowstone became the first national park in the world.
1886	The Anglo-Chinese school in Singapore was founded by Bishop William Oldham.
1896	Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
1896	French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered the principle of radioactive decay when he exposed photographic plates to uranium.
1896	An experiment by scientist Honory Becquerel revealed what radioactivity is, for the first time.
1908	Tata Iron and Steel Company was established in Jamshedpur.
1914	The Republic of China joined the Universal Postal Union.
1936	Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River along the Arizona–Nevada border, was completed and turned over to the Federal government of the United States.
1944	World War II-American and Australian troops won the Battle of Sio in New Guinea.
1947	The International Monetary Fund began its financial operations.
1950	In a trial lasting less than 90 minutes, German–British physicist Klaus Fuchs was convicted of violating the Official SecretsAct for supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the SovietUnion.
1951	Nitish Kumar, born 10 years out of Bihar's socialist movement, was born.
1954	Four Puerto Rican nationalists shot 30 rounds from semi-automatic pistols during an open session of the United States House of Representatives, injuring five people.
1954	The United States exploded the largest explosion by any human in the Bikini Islands of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. It is believed that the hydrogen bomb was a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
1956	The NATO phonetic alphabet, today the most widely used spelling alphabet, was first implemented by the International Civil Aviation Organization.
1957	Yu Nu became Prime Minister of Atomic Burma.
1962	American Airlines Flight 1 crashed shortly after takeoff from New York International (Idlewild) Airport, killing all 95 people aboard.
1967	Queen Elizabeth Hall opened in London.
1969	First Rajdhani train started between New Delhi-Kolkata.
1979	Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
1980	Commonwealth Trade Union Council, CTUC has been established.
1980	Hilbert van der Duim has become world champion and became the all-round skater.
1981	LPGA Olympic Gold Golf Classic won by Sally Little.
1982	Venera 14, the Russian spacecraft lands on Venus. It has sent back the data.
1983	Mary Kom, who made the country proud by winning medals in the Olympic and Commonwealth Games, was born.
1990	16 people were killed in a fire at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.
1995	The new president of Uruguay, Julio Maria Sanguinetti has sworn in.
1995	Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, the premier of Ukraine has resigned.
1995	First Yahoo! Search interface was established.
1997	Mandy Patinkin in Concert,' has been opened at Lyceum Theater, New York City.
2000	Mubarak Al Shamikh appointed as the new Prime Minister of Libya in place of Mohammed Ahmed Al Gayoom.
2004	Mohammad Bahr al-Uloom became the President of Iraq.
2004	The President of Russia appointed Mikhail Fradkov as Prime Minister. As Haiti's President Bartara Esistade left the country and fled to South Africa.
2007	Amulya Nath Sharma became the first bishop of Nepal.
2008	ICICI Bank Ltd., the country's largest commercial bank in the private sector, opened its branch in New York.
2012	10.7 percent, the highest unemployment level has been experienced by the Euro Zone that has never happened in its history.
2013	The U.S. Treasury Department released a report in June 2012 that Japan exceeded China and became the leading foreign holder of U.S. Treasury securities.
2013	The clash between the Malaysian government and the rebels left 14 dead.
2014	A group of terrorists attacked and stabbed 29 people to death at a Kunming railway station in China. The UK received permission to open a trade center in Madras.
750	Romulus, the legendary co-founder of Rome, held the firstRoman triumph to celebrate a military victory following the Rape of theSabine Women.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1854	The British East India Company added Jhasi state of India to their kingdom under the doctrine of Langha.
1901	The Census of India was the fourth and first reliable census of the British Raj.
2005	The Supreme Court of India in its historic verdict ruled out the death penalty for those who committed crimes before age of 18 and it called its unconstitutional.

Day/Observance	Level
World Seagrass Day	International Day
Zero Discrimination Day [UNAIDS]	International Day
National Nutrition Month (1 to 31 Mar)	National Day
World Civil Defense Day	International Day
Zero Discrimination Day	National Day
Bosnia and Herzegovina Independence Day	National Day
South Korea 1st March Movement (Samiljeol)	National Day

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1983	Mary Kom / Player / India
1903	Paresh Chandra Bhattacharya / Civil Servant / India
1919	Prithvi Nath Dhar / Economist / India
1930	R. P. Goenka / Industrialist / India
1942	Ramesh Upadhyay / Writer / India
1944	Buddhadev Bhattacharya / Politician / India
1951	Nitish Kumar / Politician / India
1965	Archana Joglekar / Actress / India
1983	M C Mary Kom / Boxer / India
1983	Mary Kom / Boxer / India
1990	Crystal D"Souza / Actress / India

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