What are the important events that happened on March 1? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 1: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 1 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 17, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,709,251,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexacontahenagon’ day.
Pisces is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,088 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 1 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1805 –Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.
- 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.
- 1936 –The Hoover Dam is completed.
- 1947 –The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
- 1981 –Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
- 1995 –Yahoo! is incorporated.
- 2002 –The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by the euro (€).
- 2006 –English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
Who were born on March 1?
- 1474 –Saint Angela Merici, Italian religious leader and saint (d. 1540)
- 1817 –Giovanni Duprè, Italian sculptor (d. 1882)
- 1918 –Roger Delgado, English actor (d. 1973)
- 1934 –Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983)
- 1940 –David Broome, Welsh showjumper
- 1946 –Gerry Boulet, French-Canadian singer (d. 1990)
- 1952 –Steven Barnes, American writer
- 1969 –Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
- 1973 –Jack Davenport, English actor
- 1984 –Anthony Tupou, Australian rugby league footballer
Who died on March 1?
- 986 –King Lothair of France (b. 941)
- 1510 –Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer
- 1757 –Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712)
- 1875 –Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
- 1895 –Pauline Musters, shortest woman ever (b. 1876)
- 1929 –Royal H. Weller, American politician (b. 1881)
- 1942 –George S. Rentz, Navy chaplain (b. 1882)
- 1979 –Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (b. 1903)
- 1982 –Frank Sargeson, New Zealand writer (b. 1903)
- 2006 –Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
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