Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 1

This is a list of selected March 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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Images

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  Articles of Confederation
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  Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile
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  Lower Yellowstone Fall
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  Christ the Redeemer statue, Rio de Janeiro
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  Castle Bravo
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  Hoover Dam by Ansel Adams
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  Peace Corps logo
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  Muhammad Ali Pasha of Egypt
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  Mendeleev's periodic table
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  Warwick Armstrong

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Martenitsa in Bulgaria	lots of CN tags
Mărțișor in Moldova and Romania	original research, unreliable sources
1476 – War of the Castilian Succession: Although the Battle of Toro was militarily inconclusive, it assured Ferdinand and Isabella the throne of Castile, forming the basis for modern Spain.	lots of CN tags (15)
1565 – Rio de Janeiro was founded by the Portuguese as São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro.	refimprove section
1633 – Samuel de Champlain reclaimed his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.	refimprove section
1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba were brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning the Salem witch trials.	refimprove sections
1700 – Sweden introduced its own calendar in an attempt to reform into the Gregorian calendar.	refimprove
1781 – The Articles of Confederation, the first governing constitution of the United States, was ratified, legally uniting what were originally several independent states into a new sovereign federation.	unreferenced section
1919 – Korea under Japanese rule: The Samil Movement began with numerous peaceful protests in Korea, but was brutally suppressed by the Japanese police and army.	refimprove section
1947 – The International Monetary Fund began its financial operations.	refimprove section
1954 – The 15-megaton hydrogen bomb Castle Bravo was detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in one of the worst cases of radioactive contamination ever caused by nuclear weapons testing.	refimprove section
1954 – Four Puerto Rican nationalists shot 30 rounds from semi-automatic pistols during an open session of the United States House of Representatives, injuring five people.	refimprove section
1956 – The NATO phonetic alphabet, today the most widely used spelling alphabet, was first implemented by the International Civil Aviation Organization.	refimprove section
1961 – U.S. president John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps.	unreferenced section
1962 – American Airlines Flight 1 crashed shortly after takeoff from New York International (Idlewild) Airport, killing all 95 people aboard.	page numbers needed
1979 – Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference in Eindhoven, Netherlands.	refimprove section
1981 – 1981 Irish hunger strike	save for October 3
1991 – Uprisings against Saddam Hussein began in Iraq, leading to the deaths of more than 25,000 people, mostly civilians.	unreferenced section
2007 – Danish police forcibly evicted squatters from the Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, prompting widespread rioting that resulted in 690 arrests in 3 days.	external links
2009 – The Special Tribunal for Lebanon opened in Leidschendam, Netherlands to prosecute those accused of the 2005 terrorist attack that killed former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri and 21 others.	unreliable sources

Eligible

• 1805 – Samuel Chase, the only Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to be impeached, was acquitted by the Senate.
• 1811 – Muhammad Ali Pasha, governor of Ottoman Egypt, killed the Mamluk leaders of Cairo and seized power.
• 1869 – The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev finished his design of the first periodic table.
• 1896 – Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
• 1896 – French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered the principle of radioactive decay when he exposed photographic plates to uranium salts.
• 1921 – The Australian cricket team, led by Warwick Armstrong, became the first team to complete a whitewash in the Ashes, an achievement that would not be repeated for 86 years.
• 1936 – Hoover Dam, straddling the Arizona–Nevada border on the Colorado River, was completed.
• 1950 – In a trial lasting less than 90 minutes, German–British physicist Klaus Fuchs was convicted of violating the Official Secrets Act by supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.
• 1958 – Archbishop of Chicago Samuel Stritch was appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith, becoming the first American member of the Roman Curia.
• 2014 – A group of knife-wielding terrorists attacked passengers at Kunming railway station in Kunming, China, leaving 31 victims dead and more than 140 others injured.
• Born/died: | Vladislaus II of Hungary |b|1456| Thomas Campion |d|1620| Samuel Werenfels |b|1657| Francesco Redi |d|1697| Roger North |d|1734| Angelo Emo |d|1792| John Brooks |d|1825| Mercedes de Acosta |b|1893| Glenn Miller |b|1904| Vic Mitchell |b|1934| Nick Griffin |b|1959| Mustafa Barzani |d|1979| Lupita Nyong'o |b|1983| Kesha |b|1987

Notes

• Impeachment of Andrew Johnson appears on February 24, so Samuel Chase should not appear in the same year

March 1: Disability Day of Mourning; Independence Day in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992); Saint David's Day in Wales; Yap Day in Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia

Bison in Yellowstone

• 1562 – An attempt by Francis, Duke of Guise, to disperse a church service by Huguenots in Wassy, France, turned into a massacre, resulting in 50 dead, and starting the French Wars of Religion.
• 1872 – Yellowstone National Park (bison pictured), located mostly in the present-day U.S. state of Wyoming, was established as the world's first national park.
• 1944 – World War II: American and Australian troops won the Battle of Sio in New Guinea.
• 2008 – The Armenian military and national police attacked a crowd of people protesting the results of the recent election in Yerevan, leading to 10 deaths and over 100 arrests.

• George Wishart (d. 1546)
• Théophile Delcassé (b. 1852)
• Robert Bork (b. 1927)

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