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
- 1565 –The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
- 1845 –President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
- 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.
- 1893 –Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1896 –Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
- 1912 –Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
- 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.
- 1932 –The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
- 1939 –A Japanese Imperial 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.
- 1947 –The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
- 1954 –Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
- 1958 –Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.
- 1961 –Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
- 1972 –The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province.
- 2004 –Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq.
- 2005 –US Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional marking a change in “national standards,”.
- 2006 –English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
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