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March 1 is the 60th day of the year (61st in ... 1910 – The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern ...
John Thomas (March 1, 1826 –March 19, 1913), Welsh harpist and composer, would have turned 198 this year. Frédéric Chopin (March 1, 1810 –October 17, 1849), Polish virtuoso pianist and romantic music composer, would have turned 214 this year.
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March 8: International Women's Day; Aurat March in Pakistan Io with two volcanic plumes 1576 – A Spanish colonial officer wrote a letter to King Philip II containing the first mention of the Maya ruins of Copán in present-day Honduras.
240 BC - 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet; 1526 - Death of Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471) 1559 - Death of Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492) 1783 - Death of William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718) 1842 - Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long
1962 - American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York. 1971 - A bomb explodes in a men's room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility. 1974 - Watergate scandal: Seven people are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
March 1 began the numbered year in Russia until the end of the 15th century. Great Britain and its colonies continued to use March 25 until 1752, when they finally adopted the Gregorian calendar (the fiscal year in the UK continues to begin on 6 April, initially identical to 25 March in the former Julian calendar).
Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, one of rock's landmark albums, was released in the U.S.; sale in the UK began on March 24. [1]U.S. Ambassador to Sudan Cleo A. Noel Jr., and his chargé d'affaires, Curtis Moore, were kidnapped and murdered by terrorists from the Palestinian group Black September Organization, in an attack on the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum.