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

  • 752 BC –
    Romulus, legendary first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following The Rape of the Sabine Women.
  • 1815 –
    Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
  • 1847 –
    The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment.
  • 1852 –
    Archibald William 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.
  • 1870 –
    Marshal F.S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the War of the Triple Alliance.
  • 1873 –
    E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
  • 1896 –
    Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
  • 1901 –
    The Australian Army was formed.
  • 1910 –
    The worst 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.
  • 1956 –
    The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
  • 1961 –
    Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
  • 1966 –
    The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
  • 1972 –
    The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province.
  • 2002 –
    U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
  • 2003 –
    Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
  • 2005 –
    US Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional marking a change in “national standards,”.
  • 2007 –
    Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths are at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
  • 2008 –
    The Armenian police clashed with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections 2008

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