About March 1

March 1, 2025 is the 60th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 305 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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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 353 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On March 1

  • 293 –
    Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus as Caesar to Maximian.
  • 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.
  • 1790 –
    The first United States census is authorized.
  • 1803 –
    Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
  • 1845 –
    President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
  • 1873 –
    E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
  • 1896 –
    Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo–Ethiopian War.
  • 1896 –
    Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
  • 1932 –
    The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
  • 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.
  • 1941 –
    World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
  • 1946 –
    The Bank of England is nationalised.
  • 1956 –
    Formation of the National People’s Army
  • 1956 –
    The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
  • 1971 –
    A bomb explodes in a men’s room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
  • 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.
  • 1981 –
    Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
  • 2002 –
    The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by the euro (€).
  • 2003 –
    Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.

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