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 60th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 305 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 16, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 483,552 hours 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 ‘hexacontagon’ day.
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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 353 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 4,453 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 1 Historical Events
- 1867 –Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
- 1872 –Yellowstone National Park is established as the world’s first national park.
- 1919 –March 1st Movement begins in Korea.
- 1941 –W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S.
- 1946 –The Bank of England is nationalised.
- 1956 –The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
- 2000 –The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
- 2002 –The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced by the euro (€).
- 2002 –U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
- 2007 –Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths are at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
Who were born on March 1?
- 1683 –Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (d. 1706)
- 1781 –Javiera Carrera, Chilean aristoctrat (d. 1862)
- 1896 –Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (d. 1960)
- 1918 –João Goulart, President of Brazil (d. 1976)
- 1945 –Dirk Benedict, American actor
- 1946 –Lana Wood, American actress
- 1952 –Martin O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager
- 1978 –Jensen Ackles, American actor
- 1980 –Djimi Traoré, Malian footballer
- 1983 –Daniel Carvalho, Brazilian footballer
Who died on March 1?
- 1244 –Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
- 1768 –Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
- 1817 –Giacomo Quarenghi, Italian architect (b. 1744)
- 1920 –Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (b. 1880)
- 1936 –Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (b. 1871)
- 1974 –Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
- 1995 –Vladislav Listyev, Russian television journalist (b. 1956)
- 2001 –Henry Wade, American lawyer (b. 1914)
- 2006 –Jack Wild, British actor (b. 1952)
- 2006 –Johnny Jackson, American musician (b. 1951)
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