The 1st o Mairch is the 60t day o the year (61st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 305 days ti come.
Events
1867 : Banner o Nebraska 1872 : Yellowstone Naitional Pairk 2006 : Senedd biggin in Cairdiff 1565 - The ceety o Rio de Janeiro is foondit.1803 - Ohio becomes the 17t state o the Unitit States .1809 - The Illinois territory is separatit frae the Indiana territory.1815 - Napoleon returns tae Fraunce frae exile on Elba .1867 - Nebraska becomes the 37t state o the Unitit States .1872 - Yellowstone Naitional Pairk is creatit in the Northwastren Unitit States .1896 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.1910 - An avalanche buries a Great Northern Railwey train in Wellington, Washington , Unitit States , killin 96 fowk.1919 - The Mairch 1 Movement in Korea stairts.1925 - The shillin becomes the currency o Austrick .1936 - The Hoover Dam , on the mairch o Arizona an Californie , is completit.1950 - Chiang Kai-shek declares the Republic o Cheenae on Taiwan .1954 - The Unitit States tests a Hydrogen Bomb on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands .1979 - In a referendum in Scotland , maist voters support devolution, but it is rejectit acause o a law turn-oot. A seemilar proposal in Wales is defeatit.1989 - Beer becomes legal in Iceland .1994 - Walvis Bay is gien tae Namibie bi Sooth Africae .2000 - Tarja Halonen becomes the first female Preses o Finland .2006 - The 1,000,000t airticle o the Inglis Wikipaedia is published, on Jordanhill Railway Station in Scotland .2006 - The Senedd biggin, for the Welsh Assembly in Cairdiff , is opened bi Queen Elizabeth II .2017 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Finland .2018 - Carles Puigdemont ends his bid tae be reinstatit as Preses o Catalonie .2020 - Chynges o leadership: Muhyiddin Yassin replaces Mahathir Mohamad as Prime meenister o Malaysie ; Luis Lacalle Pou becomes Preses o Uruguay .2020 - COVID-19 pandemic : Scotland 's first recordit case o COVID-19 is confirmed.2020 - COVID-19 pandemic : Armenie , the Czech Republic an the Dominican Republic record thair first cases o COVID-19 .
Births
Yitzhak Rabin Denis Mukwege 40 - Martial , Roman writer (d. 102 )1445 - Sandro Botticelli , Italian penter (d. 1510 )1683 - Caroline o Ansbach , Queen Consort o Great Breetain an Ireland (d. 1737 )1810 - Frédéric Chopin , Pols componer (d. 1849 )1892 - Ryunosuke Akutagawa , Japanese writer (d. 1927 )1904 - Glenn Miller , American muisicker (d. 1944 )1910 - David Niven , Inglis actor (d. 1983 )1922 - Yitzhak Rabin , Prime meenister o Israel (d. 1995 )1927 - Harry Belafonte , American sangster an actor1934 - Tommy McCulloch , Scots fitbawer (d. 2016 )1939 - Tommy Bryceland , Scots fitbawer (d. 2016 )1944 - Roger Daltrey , Inglis muisicker (The Who )1947 - Alan Thicke , Canadian actor an sangwriter (d. 2016 )1949 - George Connelly , Scots fitbawer1952 - Martin O'Neill , Northren Erse fitbaw manager1954 - Ron Howard , American film director1955 - Denis Mukwege , Congolese gynaecologist an Nobel Peace Prize laureate1956 - Dalia Grybauskaite , Preses o Lithuanie 1959 - Nick Griffin , Inglis politeecian1969 - Javier Bardem , Spainyie actor1978 - Jensen Ackles , American actor an director1983 - Lupita Nyong'o , Kenyan-Mexican actress1987 - Kesha , American sangster1993 - David Smith , Scots fitbawer1994 - Justin Bieber , Canadian sangster1996 - Ye Shiwen , Cheenese soummer
Daiths
Halidays
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