About March 1
March 1, 2021 is the 60th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 305 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 337 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 1
- 350 –Vetranio is asked by Constantina, sister of Constantius II, to proclaim himself Caesar.
- 1565 –The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
- 1781 –The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
- 1886 –The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
- 1941 –W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S.
- 1941 –World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
- 1947 –The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
- 1961 –Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
- 1964 –Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
- 1966 –The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
- 1971 –President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
- 1972 –The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province.
- 1981 –Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
- 1989 –The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
- 1992 –Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- 2000 –The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
- 2002 –The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by the euro (€).
- 2003 –The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
- 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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