Historical Events on March 1

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• 752 BC Romulus, first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following the Rape of the Sabine Women
• 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 emperor Maximianus introduces tetrarchy (rule of four people) elevating Galerius and Constantius Chlorus to Caesar

• 492 St Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
• 492 St Gelasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 705 John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 743 Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited
• 918 Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht
• 1260 Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquers Damascus
• 1382 Maillotin uprising against taxes in France
• 1420 Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the Hussite protestants
• 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.

• 1562 Blood bath at Vassy: Francois de Guise's troops open fire on Huguenot congregation, first event in Wars of Religion
• 1565 Portuguese soldier Estácio de Sá founds the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


• 1587 Puritan English parliamentary leader Sir Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower

• 1593 The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden.

• 1634 Battle at Smolensk: Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians
• 1642 Georgeana (York) in Maine becomes the 1st incorporated American city

• 1711 "The Spectator" begins publishing (London)
• 1780 Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery (for newborns only)

• 1784 Edward Kidder a London pie-maker opens the 1st formal cooking school, in London, Great Britain
• 1785 Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture organized
• 1790 1st US census authorized
• 1792 US Presidential Succession Act passed
• 1796 1st National Meeting in the Hague
• 1803 Ohio becomes 17th state of the Union
• 1809 Embargo Act of 1807 (USA) repealed & Non-Intercourse Act signed
• 1811 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500
• 1811 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel


• 1815 Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law

• 1840 Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France
• 1843 5th Grand National: Tom Olliver aboard 12/1 Vanguard wins; first year race run as a handicap

• 1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)
• 1848 10th Grand National: Capt. Josey Little aboard 12/1 Chandler wins; race marred by fatal falls of 3 competitors
• 1852 Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
• 1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbour with approximately 480 passengers and crew; she was never seen again
• 1854 German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg.
• 1854 16th Grand National: John Tasker wins aboard race favourite Bourton at 4/1
• 1859 Present seal of San Francisco adopted (its 2nd)
• 1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
• 1864 Rebecca Lee in the US becomes 1st African American woman to receive a medical degree

• 1867 Howard University, Washington, D.C., chartered
• 1867 Most of Nebraska becomes 37th US state (expanded later)
• 1869 US Postage stamps showing scenes issued for 1st time. These pictorials showed a post horse and rider, a locomotive, a shield, an eagle and a ship, the Adriatic.

• 1871 J Milton Turner named US minister to Liberia
• 1872 Yellowstone becomes the world's 1st national park
• 1873 E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter
• 1875 US Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Ct, 1883
• 1876 Guernsey Cattle Club forms (Farmington Conn)
• 1878 First winter ascent of Aneto, highest mountain in the Pyrenees
• 1879 Library of Hawaii founded
• 1886 The Anglo-Chinese School in Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.

• 1893 Diplomatic Appropriation Act, authorizes the US rank of ambassador

• 1903 Major League Baseball Rules Committee rule that pitcher's mound must not be more than 15 inches higher than the baselines or home plate
• 1909 1st US university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota
• 1910 118 die when three passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass, Wa, in Cascade Range by the worst snow slide in US history
• 1910 National Baseball Commission prohibits giving mementos to players on winning World Series teams; decision later reversed, making way for traditional winners' watches, rings, and stickpins
• 1912 U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry performs first (attached-type) parachute jump from an airplane
• 1912 Isabella Goodwin appointed first US woman detective, NYC
• 1913 1First state law requiring bonding of officers & state employees, ND

• 1914 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum
• 1914 The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
• 1916 Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic
• 1917 1st federal land bank chartered in USA
• 1917 US government releases the plain text of the "Zimmermann Telegram" to the public
• 1919 The March 1st, or Samil Movement, begins in Korea: it is a demonstration of resistance to Japanese occupation
• 1919 Future Hockey Hall of Fame center Newsy Lalonde sets a playoff record with 5 goals in the Canadiens' 6-3 win over Ottawa in NHL Championship Game 3 in Montreal
• 1920 Austria becomes a kingdom again, under Admiral Horthy
• 1920 Buriat ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted
• 1920 Nikolaus Horthy is elected Regent of Hungary, which had adopted a constitution on 28 February
• 1921 Rwanda ceded to Great Britain
• 1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt, Russia
• 1921 Spin bowler Arthur Mailey takes 5 for 119 (record 36 wickets for series) to lead Australia to a 9 wicket 5th Test win over England in Sydney; first ever, 5-0 Ashes cricket series win for Australia
• 1923 Allies occupy Ruhrgebied: killing railroad striker
• 1924 Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted

• 1932 12 pro-independence revolutionaries captured in and around Chittagong in Bengal province, British India are sentenced to deportation for life, two to three-year prison terms with the remaining 32 being acquitted.

• 1933 Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks
• 1934 Henry Pu Yi crowned Emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria

• 1936 Boulder (Hoover) Dam fully completed
• 1936 A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen's Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
• 1937 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Ct)
• 1937 Governor Wouters innaugrates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles
• 1937 US Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day
• 1938 Federal Trade Commission orders 8 manufacturers and the PGA of America to end their practice of golf ball price-fixing
• 1939 Japanese Imperial Army ammunition dump exploded at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94
• 1940 Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published

• 1941 1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, Tennessee
• 1941 Former University of Notre Dame star fullback Elmer Layden is named first Commissioner of the NFL
• 1941 German troops invade Bulgaria

• 1941 Rangers' goalie Dave Kerr becomes the 5th goaltender in NHL history to record 200 career victories when New York wins, 3-1 over the Canadiens at Montreal
• 1942 3 day Battle of Java Sea ends, US suffers a major naval defeat
• 1942 Major League Baseball owners decide not to allow players in the military to play for their clubs when on furlough
• 1942 J Milton Cage Jr's "Imaginary Landscape No 3" premieres in Chicago
• 1942 Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java
• 1942 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews

• 1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided
• 1944 Massive strikes in northern Italian towns
• 1944 U-358 sinks in Atlantic
• 1945 British 43rd Division under General Hubert Essame occupies Xanten


• 1945 Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi

• 1945 US infantry regiment captures Mönchengladbach
• 1946 British government nationalises and takes control of the Bank of England, after 252 years
• 1946 Panama accepts its new constitution
• 1947 International Monetary Fund begins operation

• 1949 Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch.

• 1950 Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London)
• 1950 USSR issues golden roubles
• 1952 Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasha resigns
• 1952 Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain
• 1953 KAUZ TV channel 6 in Wichita Falls, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1953 KTNT (now KSTW) TV channel 11 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins
• 1953 WJZ-AM in NYC becomes WABC; WJZ-TV in Baltimore final transmission
• 1953 WFBG TV (later WTAJ) channel 10 in Altoona, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting

• 1954 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in US House of Representatives injuring 5 members

• 1954 Rebellion in Egypt during visit of president Naguib to Khartoum, Sudan, 30 die

• 1955 Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48
• 1955 KFAR (now KATN) TV channel 2 in Fairbanks, AK (ABC/NBC) 1st broadcast
• 1955 Pakistan and India play out a draw in the 5th cricket Test at the National Stadium in Karachi; 5 Test series drawn 0-0
• 1956 The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
• 1956 "Crazy Arms" single released by Ray Price - his 1st no.1 (Billboard Song of the Year 1956)
• 1957 "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 123 performances


• 1957 KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper, WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1957 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor
• 1958 21 year old West Indian cricket all-rounder Gary Sobers turns his maiden Test century into a world record 365no in the Windies' 3rd Test win over Pakistan in Kingston, Jamaica; Sobers and Conrad Hunte (260) 446 run partnership for 2nd wicket
• 1958 Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia
• 1959 Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after 3 years
• 1961 Cellist Jacqueline du Prés debut in Wigmore Hall

• 1962 American Airlines 707 plunges nose first into Jamaica Bay, NY, killing 95
• 1962 Kresge Corporation openes the first Kmart store in Garden City, Michigan
• 1962 US and British nuclear test experiment in Nevada
• 1963 200,000 French mine workers strike
• 1965 Australian swimming authorities suspend triple Olympic gold medal winning sprinter Dawn Fraser for 10 years for misconduct at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics
• 1965 Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex in La Salle, Quebec
• 1965 WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1966 Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria
• 1966 Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus)
• 1967 MLB Commissioner William Eckert approves the Baseball Writers Association of America's plan to name a Cy Young Award recipient from both the National and American Leagues
• 1967 Dominica & St Lucia gain independence from Britain

• 1967 Queen Elizabeth Hall in London's South Bank Centre opens
• 1967 WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore, MD (IND) 1st broadcast
• 1968 NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return
• 1968 Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting
• 1968 Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands
• 1968 Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect

• 1968 High winds blow-off the Philadelphia Spectrum's roof, forcing the Flyers to play their final month of the NHL season on the road, with home games moved to Toronto, NYC and Quebec City
• 1969 "Red, White, & Maddox" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 41 performances
• 1969 After 88 weeks the Beatles' album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band drops off the charts

• 1969 Pirate Radio 259 begins operation off the French coast

• 1969 Tuesdee Testa becomes the first female jockey to win a race at a major American Thoroughbred track when she takes out the 3rd race at Santa Anita Park aboard Buz On

• 1970 End of US commercial whale hunting
• 1970 Kreisky's social democrats win Austrian parliamentary election
• 1970 Minnesota coach Charlie Burns becomes the final player/coach in NHL history, when he plays in the North Stars' 8-0 win over Toronto Maple Leafs; remains in role for final month of the season

• 1971 Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
• 1971 Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM
• 1972 Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth"
• 1972 David Rabe's "Sticks & Bones" premieres in NYC
• 1972 KHMA TV channel 11 in Houma, LA (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1972 Two Catholic teenagers shot dead by the Royal Ulster Constabulary while 'joy riding' in a stolen car in Belfast
• 1973 Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens
• 1973 Robyn Smith rides North Sea to victory in the Paumanok Handicap at Aqueduct Race Track in NYC to become the first American female jockey to win a stakes race

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