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 actor
1934 - 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 fitbawer
1952 - Martin O'Neill , Northren Erse fitbaw manager
1954 - Ron Howard, American film director
1955 - Denis Mukwege, Congolese gynaecologist an Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1956 - Dalia Grybauskaite, Preses o Lithuanie
1959 - Nick Griffin , Inglis politeecian
1969 - Javier Bardem, Spainyie actor
1978 - Jensen Ackles, American actor an director
1983 - Lupita Nyong'o , Kenyan-Mexican actress
1987 - Kesha , American sangster
1993 - David Smith, Scots fitbawer
1994 - Justin Bieber , Canadian sangster
1996 - Ye Shiwen, Cheenese soummer
Daiths
Halidays Banner o Wales
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