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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 1 is the 60th day of the year (61st
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
305 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
– Publius
Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over
the deposed king Lucius
Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva
Arsia. ·
– Lucius Cornelius
Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, removing the tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI
of Pontus ending the Siege
of Athens and Piraeus. ·
– Emperor Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesars. This is considered the beginning of
the Tetrarchy, known as the Quattuor
Principes Mundi ("Four Rulers of the World"). ·
– Crispus and Constantine II,
sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of
Emperor Licinius, are made Caesares. ·
– Vetranio is asked by Constantina, sister of Constantius II, to proclaim himself Caesar. ·
– Emperor Louis the Pious is restored as sole
ruler of the Frankish Empire. After
his re-accession to the throne, his eldest son Lothair I flees to Burgundy. ·
1457 – The Unitas Fratrum is established in
the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date
the second oldest Protestant denomination. ·
1476 – Forces of
the Catholic Monarchs engage
the combined Portuguese-Castilian armies of Afonso V and Prince John at
the Battle of Toro. ·
1562 –
Sixty-three Huguenots are massacred in Wassy,
France, marking the start of the French Wars of
Religion. ·
1565 – The city
of Rio de Janeiro is
founded. ·
1628 – Writs issued in
March by Charles I of England mandate
that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date. ·
1633 – Samuel de Champlain reclaims
his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu. ·
1642 –
Georgeana, Massachusetts (now
known as York, Maine),
becomes the first incorporated city in the United States. ·
1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local
magistrates in Salem Village,
Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials. ·
1700 – Sweden
introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually
merge into the Gregorian calendar,
reverts to the Julian calendar on
this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian calendar
on this date in 1753. ·
1713 – The siege and
destruction of Fort Neoheroka begins
during the Tuscarora War in North Carolina, effectively opening up the
colony's interior to European colonization. ·
1781 – The Articles of
Confederation goes into effect in the United States.[1][2] ·
1790 – The first United States
census is authorized. ·
1793 – French
Revolutionary War: Battle of
Aldenhoven during the Flanders Campaign. ·
1796 – The Dutch East India
Company is nationalized by the Batavian Republic. ·
1803 – Ohio becomes
the 17th state of The United States. ·
1805 – Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of
his impeachment trial
by the U.S. Senate. ·
1811 – Leaders of the Mamluk dynasty are
killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali. ·
1815 – Napoleon returns to France from his
banishment on Elba. ·
1815 – Georgetown
University's congressional
charter is signed into law by President James Madison. ·
1836 – A convention of
delegates from 57 Texas communities
convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos,
Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico. ·
1845 – United States
President John Tyler signs
a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas. ·
1852 – Archibald
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. ·
1867 – Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and
becomes the state capital. ·
1868 – The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity is founded at
the University of
Virginia. ·
1870 – Marshal F. S. López dies
during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus
marking the end of the Paraguayan War. ·
1872 – Yellowstone
National Park is established as the world's first national park. ·
1873 – E. Remington and
Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of
the first practical typewriter. ·
1881 – The first Minnesota State
Capitol burns down. ·
1886 – The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham. ·
1893 – Electrical
engineer Nikola Tesla gives
the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri. ·
1896 – Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an
outnumbered Italian force,
ending the First
Italo-Ethiopian War.[3] ·
1896 – Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay. ·
1901 – The Australian Army is formed. ·
1910 – The
deadliest 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. ·
1917 – The Zimmermann Telegram is
reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S.
government releases its unencrypted text. ·
1919 – March 1st Movement begins
in Korea under
Japanese rule. ·
1921 – The Australian
cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes
the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be
repeated for 86 years. ·
1921 – Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in
the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion began,
with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.[4] ·
1932 – Charles Lindbergh's son is kidnapped. ·
1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed. ·
1939 – An Imperial Japanese
Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94. ·
1941 – World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with
the Axis powers. ·
1942 – World War
II: Japanese forces
land on Java, the main island of the Dutch East Indies,
at Merak and Banten Bay (Banten), Eretan Wetan (Indramayu) and Kragan (Rembang). ·
1946 – The Bank of England is nationalised. ·
1947 – The International
Monetary Fund begins financial operations. ·
1949 – Indonesian Army recaptures and occupies
for six hours its capital city Yogyakarta from the Dutch. ·
1950 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for
the Soviet Union by
disclosing top secret atomic bomb data. ·
1953 – Soviet
Premier Joseph Stalin suffers
a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later. ·
1954 – Nuclear weapons
testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean,
resulting in the worst radioactive
contamination ever caused by the United States. ·
1954 – Armed
Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States
Capitol building, injuring five Representatives. ·
1956 – The International
Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony
spelling alphabet for the International
Civil Aviation Organization. ·
1956 – Formation of the East German Nationale
Volksarmee. ·
1958 – Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is
appointed Pro-Prefect of
the Propagation of Faith and
thus becomes the first U.S. member of the Roman Curia. ·
1961 – United States
President John F. Kennedy establishes
the Peace Corps. ·
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 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface. ·
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. ·
1973 – Black September storms
the Saudi embassy
in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination
of three Western hostages. ·
1974 – Watergate scandal:
Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with
conspiracy to obstruct justice. ·
1981 – Provisional
Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze. ·
1983 – First
collection of twelve Swatch models was
introduced in Zürich, Switzerland. ·
1990 – Steve Jackson Games is
raided by the United
States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation. ·
1991 – Uprisings against Saddam Hussein begin in Iraq, leading
to the death of more than 25,000 people mostly civilian. ·
1992 – Bosnia and
Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ·
1998 – Titanic became
the first film to gross over $1 billion
worldwide. ·
2002 – U.S.
invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins
in eastern Afghanistan. ·
2002 – The Envisat environmental
satellite successfully launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket to
reach an orbit of 800 km (500 mi) above the Earth, which was the
then-largest payload at
10.5 m long and with a diameter of 4.57 m.[5] ·
2003 – Management of
the United
States Customs Service and the United
States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security. ·
2003 – The International
Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague. ·
2005 – In Roper v. Simmons, the U.S.
Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found
guilty of murder is unconstitutional. ·
2006 –
English-language Wikipedia reaches
its one millionth article, Jordanhill
railway station. ·
2007 – Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at
least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise
High School. ·
2008 – The Armenian
police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting
against allegedly
fraudulent presidential elections, as a result ten people are
killed. ·
2014 – Thirty-five
people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway
Station in China. Births[edit]
·
1105 – Alfonso VII,
king of León and Castile (d. 1157) ·
1261 – Hugh
le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (d. 1326) ·
1389 – Antoninus of
Florence, Italian archbishop and saint (d. 1459) ·
1432 – Isabella of Coimbra (d.
1455) ·
1456 – Vladislaus II of
Hungary (d. 1516) ·
1547 – Rudolph Goclenius,
German philosopher and lexicographer (d. 1628) ·
1554 – William
Stafford, English courtier and conspirator (d. 1612) ·
1577 – Richard
Weston, 1st Earl of Portland (d. 1635) ·
1597 – Jean-Charles
della Faille, Flemish priest and mathematician (d. 1652) ·
1611 – John Pell, English mathematician and
linguist (d. 1685) ·
1629 – Abraham Teniers, Flemish painter (d. 1670) ·
1647 – John de Brito, Portuguese Jesuit missionary
and martyr (d. 1693) ·
1657 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian and
author (d. 1740) ·
1683 – Tsangyang Gyatso, sixth Dalai Lama (d. 1706) ·
1683 – Caroline of Ansbach,
British queen and regent (d. 1737) ·
1732 – William Cushing, American lawyer and judge
(d. 1810) ·
1760 – François Buzot,
French lawyer and politician (d. 1794) ·
1769 – François
Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (d. 1796) ·
1807 – Wilford Woodruff, American religious leader,
4th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints (d. 1898) ·
1810 – Frédéric Chopin,
Polish pianist and composer (d. 1849) ·
1812 – Augustus Pugin, English architect,
co-designed the Palace of
Westminster (d. 1852) ·
1817 – Giovanni Duprè,
Italian sculptor and educator (d. 1882) ·
1821 – Joseph Hubert
Reinkens, German bishop and academic (d. 1896) ·
1835 – Philip Fysh, English-Australian politician,
12th Premier of Tasmania (d.
1919) ·
1837 – William Dean Howells,
American novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 1920) ·
1842 – Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter and academic
(d. 1901) ·
1848 – Augustus
Saint-Gaudens, Irish-American sculptor and academic (d. 1907) ·
1852 – Théophile Delcassé,
French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d.
1923) ·
1863 – Alexander
Golovin, Russian painter and set designer (d. 1930) ·
1870 – E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and
academic (d. 1944) ·
1876 – Henri de
Baillet-Latour, Belgian businessman (d. 1942) ·
1880 – Lytton Strachey, British writer and critic
(d. 1932) ·
1886 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian-Swiss painter,
poet, and playwright (d. 1980) ·
1888 – Ewart Astill, English cricketer and
billiards player (d. 1948) ·
1888 – Fanny Walden, English cricketer and umpire,
international footballer, outside right (d. 1949)[6] ·
1889 – Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and
philosopher (d. 1960) ·
1890 – Theresa Bernstein,
Polish-American painter and author (d. 2002) ·
1891 – Ralph Hitz, Austrian-American hotelier (d.
1940) ·
1892 – Ryūnosuke
Akutagawa, Japanese author and educator (d. 1927) ·
1893 – Mercedes de Acosta,
American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1968) ·
1896 – Dimitri Mitropoulos,
Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1960) ·
1896 – Moriz Seeler, German playwright and producer
(d. 1942) ·
1899 – Erich von dem
Bach-Zelewski, German SS officer
(d. 1972) ·
1904 – Paul Hartman, American actor, singer, and
dancer (d. 1973) ·
1904 – Glenn Miller, American trombonist, composer,
and bandleader (d. 1944) ·
1905 – Doris Hare, Welsh-English actress, singer,
and dancer (d. 2000) ·
1906 – Phạm
Văn Đồng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician,
2nd Prime
Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000) ·
1909 – Eugene Esmonde, English lieutenant and pilot
(d. 1942) ·
1909 – Winston Sharples, American pianist and
composer (d. 1978) ·
1910 – Archer John
Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2002) ·
1910 – David Niven, English soldier and actor (d.
1983) ·
1912 – Gerald Emmett Carter,
Canadian cardinal (d. 2003) ·
1912 – Boris Chertok, Polish-Russian engineer and
academic (d. 2011) ·
1914 – Harry Caray, American sportscaster (d. 1998) ·
1914 – Ralph Ellison, American novelist and
literary critic (d. 1994) ·
1917 – Robert Lowell, American poet (d. 1977) ·
1918 – João Goulart, Brazilian lawyer and
politician, 24th President of Brazil (d.
1976) ·
1918 – Gladys Spellman, American educator and
politician (d. 1988) ·
1920 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (d.
1984) ·
1921 – Cameron Argetsinger,
American race car driver and lawyer (d. 2008) ·
1921 – Terence Cooke, American cardinal (d. 1983) ·
1921 – Richard Wilbur, American poet, translator,
and essayist (d. 2017) ·
1922 – William Gaines, American publisher (d. 1992) ·
1922 – Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli general and politician,
5th Prime Minister
of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1995) ·
1924 – Arnold Drake, American author and
screenwriter (d. 2007) ·
1924 – Deke Slayton, American soldier, pilot, and
astronaut (d. 1993) ·
1926 – Robert Clary, French-American actor and
author ·
1926 – Cesare Danova, Italian-American actor (d.
1992) ·
1926 – Pete Rozelle, American businessman and
commissioner of the National
Football League (d. 1996) ·
1926 – Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach (d. 2013) ·
1927 – George O. Abell, American astronomer,
professor at UCLA, science popularizer, and skeptic (d. 1983) ·
1927 – Harry Belafonte, American singer-songwriter
and actor ·
1927 – Robert Bork, American lawyer and
scholar, United
States Attorney General (d. 2012) ·
1928 – Jacques Rivette, French director,
screenwriter, and critic (d. 2016) ·
1929 – Georgi Markov, Bulgarian journalist and
author (d. 1978) ·
1930 – Monu Mukhopadhyay,
Indian Bengali actor ·
1930 – Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (d. 1980) ·
1934 – Jean-Michel Folon,
Belgian painter and sculptor (d. 2005) ·
1934 – Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983) ·
1935 – Robert Conrad, American actor, radio host
and stuntman (d. 2020) ·
1936 – Jean-Edern Hallier,
French author (d. 1997) ·
1939 – Leo Brouwer, Cuban guitarist, composer, and
conductor ·
1939 – Mustansar Hussain
Tarar, Pakistani author ·
1940 – Robin
Gray, Australian politician, 37th Premier of Tasmania ·
1940 – Robert Grossman, American painter, sculptor,
and author (d. 2018) ·
1941 – Robert Hass, American poet ·
1942 – Richard Myers, American general ·
1943 – Gil Amelio, American businessman ·
1943 – José Ángel Iribar,
Spanish footballer and manager ·
1943 – Rashid Sunyaev, Russian-German astronomer
and physicist ·
1944 – Buddhadeb
Bhattacharjee, Indian politician, 7th Chief
Minister of West Bengal ·
1944 – John Breaux, American lawyer and politician ·
1944 – Roger Daltrey, English singer-songwriter,
producer, and actor ·
1944 – Mike d'Abo, English singer ·
1945 – Dirk Benedict, American actor and director ·
1946 – Gerry Boulet, Canadian singer-songwriter (d.
1990) ·
1946 – Jim Crace, English author and academic ·
1947 – Alan Thicke, Canadian-American actor and
composer (d. 2016) ·
1951 – Sergei Kourdakov, Russian-American KGB agent
(d. 1973) ·
1952 – Dave Barr,
Canadian golfer ·
1952 – Nevada Barr, American actress and author ·
1952 – Leigh Matthews, Australian footballer,
coach, and sportscaster ·
1952 – Jerri Nielsen, American physician and
explorer (d. 2009) ·
1952 – Martin O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer
and manager ·
1953 – Sinan Çetin, Turkish actor, director, and
producer ·
1953 – Carlos Queiroz, Portuguese footballer and
manager ·
1954 – Catherine Bach, American actress ·
1954 – Ron Howard, American actor, director, and
producer ·
1956 – Tim Daly, American actor, director, and
producer ·
1956 – Dalia
Grybauskaitė, Lithuanian politician, 6th President of
Lithuania ·
1958 – Nik Kershaw, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1959 – Nick Griffin, English politician ·
1961 – Mike Rozier, American football player ·
1966 – Zack Snyder, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1986 – Jonathan Spector, American footballer[7] ·
1994 – Justin Bieber, Canadian singer-songwriter Deaths[edit]
·
– Felix III, pope of the Catholic Church ·
– David, Welsh bishop and saint ·
– Leo VIII, pope of the Catholic Church ·
– Rudesind, Galician bishop (b. 907) ·
– En'yū,
Japanese emperor (b. 959) ·
1058 – Ermesinde of
Carcassonne, countess and regent of Barcelona (b. 972) ·
1131 – Stephen II,
king of Hungary and Croatia (b. 1101) ·
1233 – Thomas,
count of Savoy (b. 1178) ·
1244 – Gruffydd ap
Llywelyn Fawr, Welsh noble, son of Llywelyn the Great (b.
1200) ·
1320 – Ayurbarwada
Buyantu Khan, Chinese emperor (b. 1286) ·
1383 – Amadeus VI,
count of Savoy (b. 1334) ·
1510 – Francisco de Almeida,
Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. 1450) ·
1546 – George Wishart, Scottish minister and martyr
(b. 1513) ·
1620 – Thomas Campion, English poet and composer
(b. 1567) ·
1633 – George Herbert, English poet and orator (b.
1593) ·
1643 – Girolamo Frescobaldi,
Italian pianist and composer (b. 1583) ·
1661 – Richard Zouch, English judge and politician
(b. 1590) ·
1666 – Ecaterina Cercheza,
princess consort of Moldavia (b. 1620) ·
1697 – Francesco Redi, Italian physician and poet
(b. 1626) ·
1734 – Roger North,
English lawyer and author (b. 1653) ·
1768 – Hermann Samuel
Reimarus, German philosopher and author (b. 1694) ·
1773 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect,
designed the Palace of Caserta (b.
1700) ·
1792 – Leopold II,
Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747) ·
1792 – Angelo Emo, Venetian admiral and statesman
(b. 1731)[8] ·
1841 – Claude
Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, French general and
politician, French
Minister of Defence (b. 1764) ·
1862 – Peter Barlow,
English mathematician and physicist (b. 1776) ·
1875 – Tristan Corbière,
French poet and educator (b. 1845) ·
1882 – Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer,
and educator (b. 1818) ·
1884 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and
academic (b. 1820) ·
1906 – José María de Pereda,
Spanish author (b. 1833) ·
1911 – Jacobus
Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1852) ·
1914 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto,
English soldier and politician, 8th Governor General
of Canada (b. 1845) ·
1920 – John H. Bankhead, American lawyer and
politician (b. 1842) ·
1922 – Pichichi,
Spanish footballer (b. 1892) ·
1932 – Frank Teschemacher,
American Jazz musician (b. 1906) ·
1936 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian author and poet (b.
1871) ·
1938 – Gabriele D'Annunzio,
Italian journalist and politician (b. 1863) ·
1940 – Anton Hansen
Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878) ·
1942 – George S. Rentz, American commander (b.
1882) ·
1943 – Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician and
bacteriologist (b. 1863) ·
1952 – Mariano Azuela, Mexican physician and author
(b. 1873) ·
1966 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist
and academic (b. 1903) ·
1974 – Bobby Timmons, American pianist and composer
(b. 1935) ·
1976 – Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer
(b. 1910) ·
1978 – Paul Scott,
English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920) ·
1979 – Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi-Kurdistan politician
(b. 1903) ·
1980 – Wilhelmina Cooper,
Dutch-American model and businesswoman, founded Wilhelmina Models (b.
1940) ·
1980 – Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907) ·
1983 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English
journalist and author (b. 1905) ·
1984 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914) ·
1988 – Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (b.
1907) ·
1989 – Vasantdada Patil, Indian politician,
5th Chief
Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1917) ·
1991 – Edwin H. Land, American scientist and
businessman, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (b.
1909) ·
1995 – César Rodríguez
Álvarez, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1920) ·
1995 – Georges J. F. Köhler,
German biologist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1946) ·
1998 – Archie Goodwin,
American author and illustrator (b. 1937) ·
2004 – Mian Ghulam Jilani,
Pakistani general (b. 1914) ·
2006 – Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947) ·
2006 – Jack Wild, English actor (b.1952) ·
2010 – Kristian Digby, English television host and
director (b. 1977) ·
2012 – Andrew Breitbart, American journalist and
publisher (b. 1969) ·
2012 – Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (b.
1932) ·
2013 – Bonnie Franklin, American actress, dancer,
and singer (b. 1944) ·
2014 – Alain Resnais, French director,
cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1922) ·
2015 – Minnie Miñoso, Cuban-American baseball
player and coach (b. 1922) ·
2018 – María Rubio, Mexican television, film and
stage actress (b. 1934) ·
2019 – Mike Willesee, Australian journalist and
producer (b. 1942) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Beer Day,
marked the end of beer prohibition in 1989 (Iceland) ·
Christian feast day: o Agnes Tsao Kou Ying (one
of the Martyr Saints of
China) o Albin o David o Leoluca o Monan o Rudesind o Suitbert o March
1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Commemoration
of Mustafa Barzani's Death (Iraqi Kurdistan) ·
Earliest day on which Casimir Pulaski Day can
fall, while March 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday in March. (Illinois) ·
Earliest day on which Children's Day can fall, while March 7
is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday in March. (New Zealand) ·
Earliest day on which Grandmother's Day can
fall, while March 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday in March. (France) ·
Earliest day on which Laetare Sunday can fall, while April 4
is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent.
(Western Christianity),
and its related observances: o Carnaval de la
Laetare (Stavelot) o Mothering Sunday (United Kingdom) ·
Heroes' Day (Paraguay) ·
Independence
Day, celebrates the independence of Bosnia and
Herzegovina from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992. ·
National
“Cursed Soldiers” Remembrance Day (Poland) ·
National Pig Day (United States) ·
Remembrance
Day (Marshall Islands) ·
Saint David's Day
or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant (Wales and Welsh
communities) ·
Samiljeol (South Korea) ·
Southeastern Europe celebration of the
beginning of spring: o Mărțișor (Romania and Moldova) ·
The final day (fourth or fifth) of Ayyám-i-Há (Bahá'í Faith) |
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