Today in History - March 1
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1BCE Mar 1, Start
of the revised Julian calendar in Rome.
(SC, 3/1/02)
293 Mar 1, Roman emperor
Maximianus introduced tetrarchy.
(SC, 3/1/02)
492 Mar 1, St. Felix III ended his
reign as Catholic Pope.
(SC, 3/1/02)
492 Mar 1, St Gelasius I began his
reign as Catholic Pope (492-496).
(PTA, 1980, p.98)(SC, 3/1/02)
705 Mar 1, John VII began his
reign as Catholic Pope.
(SC, 3/1/02)
743 Mar 1, Slave export by
Christians to heathen areas was prohibited.
(SC, 3/1/02)
772 Mar 1, Po Tjiu-I (Bai Juyi),
Chinese poet (d.846), Governor of Hang-tsjow, was born. His work
included the narrative poem "Song of the Pipa," which protested the
social evils of his day.
(WSJ, 3/17/00, p.W2)(SC, 3/1/02)
918 Mar 1, Balderik became bishop
of Utrecht.
(SC, 3/1/02)
965 Mar 1, Leo VIII, Italian
(anti-)Pope (963-65), died.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1131 Mar 1, Stephen II, King of
Hungary (1116-31), died.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1260 Mar 1, Hulagu Khan, grandson
of Genghis, conquered Damascus.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1382 Mar 1, French Maillotin rose
up against taxes.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1420 Mar 1, Pope Martinus I called
for a crusade against the Hussieten (Bohemia).
(SC, 3/1/02)
1434 Mar 1, Jacoba of Bavaria
married Frank van Borselen.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1501 Mar 1, Lithuania and
Livonia established a 10-year union for protection against Russia.
(LHC, 3/1/03)
1581 Mar 1,The Warsaw
government accepted the statutes of the Lithuanian high tribunal.
(LHC, 3/1/03)
1642 Mar 1, Georgeana (York),
Maine, became the first American city to incorporate.
(HN, 3/1/98)(SC, 3/1/02)
1456 Mar 1, Wladyslaw Jagiello,
king of Bohemia (1471-1516), Hungary (1490-1516), was born.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1562 Mar 1, Blood bath at Vassy;
General de Guise allowed the murder of 1200 Huguenots. The Guises
massacred more than 60 Huguenots at a Protestant service at Vassy and
sparked off The Wars of Religion in France.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.20)(SC, 3/1/02)
1579 Mar 1, Sir Francis Drake
waylaid a Spanish treasure galleon, the Nuestra Senora de la
Concepcion, off the coast of Panama.
(ON, 7/03, p.7)
1692 Mar 1, Sarah Goode, Sarah
Osborne and Tituba were arrested for the supposed practice of
witchcraft in Salem, Mass.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1565 Mar 1, Spanish occupier
Estacio de Sá founded Rio de Janeiro. He destroyed the existing
French colony.
(TL-MB, 1988, p.21)(SC, 3/1/02)
1587 Mar 1, Peter Wentworth,
English parliament leader, was confined in London Tower. [see Mar 12]
(SC, 3/1/02)
1591 Mar 1, Pope Gregory XIV
threatened to excommunicate French king Henri IV.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1619 Mar 1, Thomas Campion (53),
English physician, composer, poet (Poemata), died.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1634 Mar 1, Battle at Smolensk;
Polish King Wladyslaw IV beat the Russians. [see Feb 19]
(SC, 3/1/02)
1643 Mar 1, Girolamo Frescobaldi
(59), Italian composer, organist, died.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1711 Mar 1, "The Spectator" began
publishing in London.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1776 Mar 1, French minister
Charles Gravier advised his Spanish counterpart to support the American
rebels against the English.
(HN, 3/1/99)
1780 Mar 1, Pennsylvania became
the first U.S. state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only). It was
followed by Connecticut and Rhode Island in 1784, New York in 1785, and
New Jersey in 1786. Massachusetts abolished slavery through a judicial
decision in 1783. [see Jul 2, 1777]
(HN, 3/1/98)(SC, 3/1/02)(HNQ, 5/29/02)
1781 Mar 1, The Continental
Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, following ratification
by Maryland.
(AP, 3/1/08)
1784 Mar 1, E. Kidner opened the
1st cooking school in Great Britain.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1785 Mar 1, Philadelphia Society
for the Promotion of Agriculture was organized.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1790 Mar 1, President Washington
signed a measure authorizing the first US Census. The Connecticut
Compromise was a proposal for two houses in the legislature-one based
on equal representation for each state, the other for population-based
representation-that resolved the dispute between large and small states
at the Constitutional Convention. Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman's
proposal led to the first nationwide census in 1790. The population was
determined to be 3,929,625, which included 697,624 slaves and 59,557
free blacks. The most populous state was Virginia, with 747,610 people
and the most populous city was Philadelphia with 42,444 inhabitants.
(HNQ, 9/17/98)(HNQ, 7/13/01)(AP, 3/1/08)
1792 Mar 1, US Presidential
Succession Act was passed. [see Feb 21]
(SC, 3/1/02)
1796 Mar 1, The 1st National
Meeting was held in the Hague.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1803 Mar 1, Ohio became the 17th
state.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1808 Mar 1, In France, Napoleon
created an imperial nobility.
(HN, 3/1/99)
1809 Mar 1, Embargo Act of 1807
was repealed and the Non-Intercourse Act signed.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1810 Mar 1, Frederic Chopin
(d.1849), Polish composer and pianist, was born. He studied in Poland
but spent most of his adult life in Paris. He met George Sand in Paris
in 1838 and they were together until 1847. His works include the
Waltz #2 in C# Minor (1835).
(BAAC PN, Chambers, 1/8/96) (HN, 3/1/98)
1811 Mar 1, In Egypt the Ottoman
viceroy Muhammad Ali Pasha massacred the Mameluke leaders of Egypt for
plotting against him. He had invited them to a banquet at the citadel
of Cairo.
(PCh, 1992, p.373)(SC, 3/1/02)
1815 Mar 1, In France, returning
from Elba, Napoleon landed at Cannes with a force of 1, 500 men and
marched on Paris.
(HN, 3/1/99)
1815 Mar 1, Sunday observance in
Netherlands was regulated by law.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1837 Mar 1, William Dean Howells
(d.1920), US author, critic and editor, was born. He edited the work of
William James at the Atlantic Monthly. "We are creatures of the moment;
we live from one little space to another; and only one interest at a
time fills these." "If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer;
if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank."
(WUD, 1994, p.689)(SFEC, 11/3/96, BR p.10)(AP,
3/3/98)(AP, 11/13/98)(HN, 3/1/01)
1841 Mar 1, Blanche K. Bruce,
senator of Mississippi 1875-1881, was born in Farmville, Va.
(HN, 3/1/98)(SC, 3/1/02)
1845 Mar 1, President Tyler signed
a congressional resolution to annex the Republic of Texas.
(AP, 3/1/98)
1847 Mar 1, James Reed reached
Donner Lake and found his two children alive along with 15 other
survivors.
(ON, SC, p.7)
1847 Mar 1, Michigan became the
1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except
for treason against the state).
(SC, 3/1/02)
1848 Mar 1, Augustus
Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor and designer of the 1907 $20 gold piece, was
born.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1854 Mar 1, The SS City of
Glasgow, a steamship of the Inman Line, left Liverpool harbor with 480
passengers and was never seen again.
(SC, 3/1/02)(WSJ, 7/1/03, p.D8)
1859 Mar 1, The present seal of
San Francisco was adopted (its 2nd).
(SC, 3/1/02)
1860 Mar 1, Suzanna Salter, first
female mayor, was born.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1864 Mar 1, Rebecca Lee
(1831-1895) became the first black woman to receive an American medical
degree, from the New England Female Medical College in Boston.
(AP,
3/1/00)(www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_73.html)
1864 Mar 1, Louis Ducos du Hauron
patented a movie machine that was never built.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1865 Mar 1, Anna Paulowna Romanova
(70), great monarch of Russia, died.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1866 Mar 1, Paraguayan canoes sank
2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1867 Mar 1, Most of Nebraska
became the 37th state. It was expanded later.
(AP, 3/1/98)(SC, 3/1/02)
1869 Mar 1, Postage stamps showing
scenes were issued for 1st time.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1869 Mar 1, Alphonse MLP de
Lamartine (78), French poet (History of Girondins), died.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1870 Mar 1, Francisco S. Lopez
(43), President of Paraguay (1862-70), was killed in the War of the
Triple alliance.
(http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/L/Lopez-Fr.html)
1871 Mar 1, Germans paraded down
the Champs-Elysses, Paris, France during the Franco-Prussian War.
(HN, 3/1/99)(WSJ, 3/14/95, p.A-16)
1871 Mar 1, J. Milton Turner was
named minister to Liberia.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1872 Mar 1, President Ulysses S.
Grant signed a measure creating Yellowstone National Park (Idaho,
Montana, Wyoming). The act of Congress creating Yellowstone National
Park was based on a report from an expedition led by Ferdinand Hayden.
The 2.2 million-acre preserve was the first step in a national park
system. Nathaniel Pitt Langford (39) was appointed the 1st
Superintendent.
(SFC, 5/19/96, Z1, p.2)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R34)(ON,
11/02, p.4)(PCh, 1992, p.526)(AP, 3/1/08)
1872 Mar 1, Doc Holliday received
his Doctor of Dental Surgery.
(MesWP)
1875 Mar 1, Congress passed the
Civil Rights Act, which was invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1883.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1876 Mar 1, Guernsey Cattle Club
formed in Farmington, CT.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1879 Mar 1, Library of Hawaii was
founded.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1880 Mar 1, Lytton Strachey
(d.1932), English biographer, critic (Benson Medal 1923), was born.
"Uninterpreted truth is as useless as buried gold."
(AP, 3/25/00)(SC, 3/1/02)
1890 Mar 1, 1st US edition of
Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) was published.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1893 Mar 1, The US Diplomatic
Appropriation Act authorized the rank of ambassador.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1896 Mar 1, The Battle of Adowa
(Adwa, Adua) began in Ethiopia between the 80,000 forces of Negus
Menelik, Emperor Menelik II, and 18-20,000 Italian troops. The Italians
suffered a crushing defeat. Menalik II and his wife Taitu led Ethiopia
to independence from Italy. In 2000 Haile Gerima made a 90 minute
documentary of the event, “Adwa: An African Victory.”
(Civilization, July-Aug. 1995, p.40-47)(WSJ,
5/16/96, p.A-12)(CNT, Nov.,1994, p.244)(AP, 3/1/98)(SFC, 5/15/00,
p.D3)(SC, 3/1/02)
1901 Mar 1, At the Pan American
Exposition in Buffalo, NY, the electric current was turned on at the
Agricultural building by Henry Rustin, chief of the Mechanical and
Electricity Bureau, and the 4000 lamps on the exterior of the building
blazed into radiant beauty. The Exposition, which opened informally on
May 1, was held on a 342 acre site between Delaware Park Lake on the
south, the New York Central railroad tracks on the north, Delaware
Avenue on the east, and Elmwood Avenue on the west. The fair featured
the latest technologies, including electricity and the baby incubator
building, and attracted nearly 8 million people. A 400-foot electric
tower was the centerpiece.
(WSJ, 6/5/01,
p.A23)(http://panam1901.bfn.org/thisday/marcharchives.html)
1903 Mar 1, Leon Bismarck "Bix"
Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist (In a Mist), was born in Iowa. [see Mar 10]
(SC, 3/1/02)
1904 Mar 1, Glenn Miller
(d.1944), big band leader of the 1930s and 1940s, was born in Clarinda,
Iowa.
(AP, 3/1/04)
1907 Mar 1, There were only
15,000 Jews left in Odessa, Russia. The attacks on the Jews continued
as more and more evacuated.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1909 Mar 1, David Niven, actor
(Casino Royale, Eye of the Devil), was born in Kirriemuir Angus,
Scotland.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1909 Mar 1, 1st US university
school of nursing established, University of Minnesota.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1910 Mar 1, An avalanche at
Wellington, Wa., pushed two Great Northern trains carrying 96 people
over a ledge at Stevens Pass.
(SSFC, 3/1/09, p.C10)
1911 Mar 1, Jose Ordonez was
elected the president of Uruguay.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1912 Mar 1, Albert Berry
completed the first in-flight parachute jump, from a Benoist plane over
Kinlock Field in St. Louis.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1912 Mar 1, Isabella Goodwin, 1st
US woman detective, was appointed in NYC.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1913 Mar 1, The US Federal income
tax took effect (16th amendment). [see Mar 8]
(SC, 3/1/02)
1913 Mar 1, The 1st state law
requiring bonding of officers and state employees was enacted in North
Dakota.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1914 Mar 1, Ralph Waldo Ellison,
renown African-American author who wrote "Invisible Man," was born.
(HN, 3/1/99)
1914 Mar 1, H. Colijn, Dutch
Minister of war, was named director of British Petroleum.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1915 Mar 1, The Allies announced
their aim to cut off all German supplies, and assured the safety of the
neutrals.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1916 Mar 1, Germany began
attacking ships in the Atlantic.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1916 Mar 1, A conference of
Lithuanians in Berne (Mar 1-5) demanded for the 1st time the full
independence of Lithuania.
(LHC, 3/1/03)
1917 Mar 1, Robert Lowell, Jr.,
poet, was born. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for Lord Weary's
Castle.
(HN, 3/1/01)
1917 Mar 1, Dinah Shore, singer
(See the USA in a Chevrolet), was born in Winchester, Ten. [see Feb 29,
1916]
(SC, 3/1/02)
1917 Mar 1, The 1st US federal
land bank was chartered.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1919 Mar 1, Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
US beat poet (Coney Island of the Mind), was born. [see Mar 24]
(SC, 3/1/02)
1919 Mar 1, The Korean coalition
proclaimed their independence from Japan.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1920 Mar 1, Harry Caray, baseball
announcer (Chicago Cubs), was born.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1920 Mar 1, Howard Nemerov,
writer, 3rd US poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize recipient, was born. [HN
says 1921]
(HN, 3/1/01)(SC, 3/1/02)
1920 Mar 1, Austria became a
kingdom again under Admiral Horthy.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1921 Mar 1, Richard Wilbur, 2nd US
Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator, was born.
(HN, 3/1/01)(SC, 3/1/02)
1921 Mar 1, The Allies rejected a
$7.5 billion reparations offer in London. German delegations decided to
quit all talks.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1921 Mar 1, Rwanda was ceded to
England.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1921 Mar 1, Sailors revolted in
Kronstadt, Russia.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1922 Mar 1, Yitzhak Rabin, premier
(Israel, 1992-95, Nobel 1994), was born.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1923 Mar 1, Allies occupied
Ruhrgebied and killed a railroad striker.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1924 Mar 1, Germany's prohibition
of Communist Party (KPD) was lifted.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1927 Mar 1, Harry Belafonte,
calypso singer (Buck and the Preacher), was born in Harlem, NYC.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1927 Mar 1, Robert Heron Bork,
judge, nominated for supreme court, was born.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1927 Mar 1, Bank of Italy became a
National Bank. California’s laws prohibiting branch banking changed and
A.P. Giannini consolidated his banking properties into the Bank of
America of California.
(SFC, 4/14/98, p.B4)(SC, 3/1/02)
1928 Mar 1, Paul Whiteman and his
orchestra recorded "Ol' Man River" for Victor Records.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1932 Mar 1, Charles Lindbergh Jr.
(20 months), the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped
from his nursery at the family home near Hopewell, (Princeton) N.J. A
handwritten note left at the scene demanded a $50,000 ransom. Under
relentless public scrutiny, the Lindberghs complied with the ransom
demands, but on May 12, the child’s remains were found two miles from
their home. German immigrant Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested and
convicted for the crime amid a frenzy of biased media coverage.
Hauptmann maintained his innocence until his execution in 1936. In 1961
George Waller authored “Kidnap,” an account of the kidnapping and trial.
(TMC, 1994, p.1932)(AP, 3/1/98)(HN, 3/1/98)(HNPD,
3/1/99)(WSJ, 11/10/07, p.W8)
1933 Mar 1, Bank holidays were
declared in 6 states to prevent run on banks.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1934 Mar 1, Primo Carnera beat
Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1934 Mar 1, Henry Pu Yi was
crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1935 Mar 1, Germany celebrated
the return of the Saar Basin to the Reich.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1935 Mar 1, Germany officially
established the Luftwaffe.
(HN, 3/1/01)
1937 Mar 1, The 1st US permanent
automobile license plates was issued in Connecticut.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1937 Mar 1, US Steel raises
workers' wages to $5 a day.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1937 Mar 1, Governor Wouters
inaugurated a radio station on the Dutch Antilles.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1940 Mar 1, "Native Son" by
Richard Wright (1908-1960) was first published. This
launched him as America’s 1st best-selling black author.
(AP, 3/1/00)(SSFC, 8/12/01, DB p.61)
1940 Mar 1, In the 12th Academy
Awards: "Gone with the Wind", Robert Donat and Vivien Leigh won.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1940 Mar 1, U.S. envoy, Sumner
Welles met with Hitler in Berlin.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1941 Mar 1, "Captain America"
appeared in a comic book.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1941 Mar 1, W47NV, the 1st US FM
radio station to broadcast with a commercial license, went on the air
in Nashville, TN.
(www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=3021)
1941 Mar 1, Elmer Layden became
the 1st NFL commissioner.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1941 Mar 1, Himmler inspected the
Auschwitz concentration camp.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1941 Mar 1, Bulgaria joined the
Axis as the Nazis occupy Sofia.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1942 Mar 1, J. Milton Cage Jr.’s
"Imaginary Landscape No 3" premiered in Chicago.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1942 Mar 1, Baseball decided that
players in military can't play when on furlough.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1942 Mar 1, The 3 day Battle of
Java Sea ended as US suffered a major naval defeat. Japanese troops
occupy Kalidjati airport in Java.
(HN, 3/1/98)(SC, 3/1/02)
1942 Mar 1, Tito established the
2nd Proletariat Brigade in Bosnia.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1942 Mar 1, Suriname camp for NSB
people opened to save Jews.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1943 Mar 1, The British RAF
conducted strategic bombing raids on all European railway lines. From
1939 to 1945, R.A.F. pilots and air crews waged war on Germany from
inside Hitler's Reich.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1943 Mar 1, In Amsterdam a Jewish
old age home for disabled was raided.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1944 Mar 1, Roger Daltrey
Hammersmith, rocker, actor, producer (The Who-Tommy), was born in
London, England.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1944 Mar 1, Massive strikes took
place in Northern Italian towns.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1944 Mar 1, U-358 sank in
Atlantic.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1945 Mar 1, Burning Spear [Winston
Rodney], Jamaican reggae singer, was born.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1945 Mar 1, President Roosevelt,
back from the Yalta Conference, proclaimed the meeting a success when
he addressed a joint session of Congress.
(AP, 3/1/98)
1945 Mar 1, US infantry regiment
captured Mönchengladbach.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1945 Mar 1, British 43rd Division
under General Essame occupied Xanten.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1945 Mar 1, Chinese 30th division
occupied Hsenwi.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1945 Mar 1, Field marshal
Kesselring succeeded von Rundstedt as commander.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1946 Mar 1, British Government
took control of Bank of England, after 252 years.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1946 Mar 1, Panama accepted its
new constitution.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1947 Mar 1, International Monetary
Fund began operations.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1949 Mar 1, Joe Louis retired as
heavyweight boxing champion.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1950 Mar 1, Chiang Kai-shek
resumed the presidency of Nationalist China in Taipei.
(www.taiwan.com.au/Polieco/Symbols/report07.html)
1950 Mar 1, Klaus Fuchs was
sentenced in London to 14 years for atomic espionage.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1950 Mar 1, USSR issued golden
rubles.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1952 Mar 1, In SF Municipal
Railway workers received a wage increase of 9.4 cents effective July 1.
This raised their hourly rate to $1.73.
(SFC, 3/1/02, p.G8)
1952 Mar 1, Egyptian
government-Ali Maher Pasja resigned.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1952 Mar 1, Helgoland, in North
Sea, was returned to West Germany by Britain.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1953 Feb 28, Francis Crick
(d.2004) and James Watson discovered the structure of DNA-molecule.
Watson and Crick managed to describe the structure of DNA as a double
helix consisting of two long strings coiled around one another. About
100,000 genes, short sections of DNA, tell the cells how to build
proteins, the building blocks of life. Rosalind Franklin made the 1st
x-ray image that revealed the double helix structure of DNA. In 2002
Brenda Maddox authored "Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA." In
2003 Watson co-authored "DNA: The Secret of Life." [see Apr 25,
Sep 20, 1953]
(V.D.-H.K.p.330)(TL, 1988, p.114)(Wired, 1/97,
p.161)(SSFC, 11/10/02, p.M2)(WSJ, 3/28/03, p.W8)(AP, 2/28/04)
1954 Mar 1, The US Senate
confirmed the Earl Warren for Chief Justice of the US. He had been
serving as the Interim chief Justice since Oct 5, 1953.
(www.supremecourthistory.org/history/supremecourthistory_history_chief_014warren.htm)
1954 Mar 1, The Bravo hydrogen
bomb test exploded across Bikini atoll (Marshall Islands) with the
force of 1,000 Hiroshima bombs. A Nuclear Claims Tribunal, established
in 1986, later awarded Bikini and Enewetak 500 million dollars but only
a fraction of the amount was received. A Nov 30, 2004, deadline limited
further suits.
(AP,
10/17/04)(www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX51.html)
1954 Mar 1, The No. 5 Fukuryu-maru
was trolling for tuna off the Bikini atoll in the Pacific during the
Bravo hydrogen bomb test. 11 crew members died in the half-century
since the exposure, at least six of them from liver cancer. Between
1946 and 1958, the United States conducted 66 nuclear tests at Bikini
as part of "Operation Crossroads."
(AP, 2/28/04)
1954 Mar 1, Ted Williams fractures
collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat
missions without injury in Korean War.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1954 Mar 1, Puerto Rican
nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of
Representatives, wounding five congressmen. In 1998 the granddaughter
of one of the nationalists published a family memoir.
(WUD, 1994, p.1685)(AP, 3/1/98)(NPR, 2/28/98)
1954 Mar 1, Rebellion during visit
of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1955 Mar 1, The SF Chronicle
reported that a Univ. of California survey found that Americans spend
more money on comic books that all the country’s elementary schools and
high schools spend on textbooks.
(SFC, 2/25/05, p.F4)
1955 Mar 1, Israeli assault on
Gaza killed 48.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1957 Mar 1, "Ziegfeld Follies of
1957" opened at Winter Garden NYC for 123 performances.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1957 Mar 1, Kokomo the Chimp
became the Today Show animal editor.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1958 Mar 1, Doctors declared that
President Eisenhower had fully recovered from his stroke.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1959 Mar 1, Archbishop Makarios
returned to Cyprus after 3 years.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1960 Mar 1, 1,000 Black students
prayed and sang the national anthem on the steps of the old Confederate
Capitol in Montgomery, Ala.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1961 Mar 1, Cellist Jacqueline du
Prés made her debut in Wigmore Hall.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1961 Mar 1, President Kennedy
established the Peace Corps. The first volunteers were sent to Ghana.
(TMC, 1994, p.1961)(SFC, 8/7/96, p.A15)(AP,
3/1/98)(SFC, 3/21/98, p.A13)
1962 Mar 1, A US Army memorandum
was put out titled “Possible Actions to Provoke, Harass or Disrupt
Cuba.”
(SFC,11/19/97, p.A4)
1962 Mar 1, US-British nuclear
test experiment took place in Nevada.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1962 Mar 1, The first Kmart, a
60,000-sq.-ft. store, opened in Garden City, Mich. It was originally
know as Kresge's, a five and dime store founded in 1899. The company
was modernized under Harry B. Cunningham and re-opened as Kmart less
than 30 miles from Kresge's headquarters in downtown Detroit.
(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3092/is_n4_v31/ai_11875088/)
1962 Mar 1, American Airlines 707
plunged nose 1st into Jamaica Bay, NY, killing 95.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1962 Mar 1, Uganda became a
self-governing country under PM Benedicto Kiwanuka.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Uganda)
1963 Mar 1, 200,000 French mine
workers went on strike.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1965 Mar 1, Gas explosion killed
28 in apartment complex at La Salle, Quebec, Canada.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1966 Mar 1, Moscow reported that a
space probe had crashed on Venus. Venera 3 became the 1st man-made
object to impact on a planet (Venus).
(HN, 3/1/98)(SC, 3/1/02)
1966 Mar 1, The Baath-party took
power in Syria. Among the fighters who had a part in toppling Amin
Hafez was Hafez Assad, who became president four years later and ruled
Syria with an iron fist for three decades.
(SC, 3/1/02)(AP, 12/18/09)
1967 Mar 1, US Rep. Adam Clayton
Powell (1908-1972) of New York City, accused of misconduct, was denied
his seat in the 90th Congress. The House of Representatives voted
307 to 116 to expel Powell. The Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that Powell
had to be seated.
(AP,
3/1/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Clayton_Powell_Jr.)
1967 Mar 1, Queen Elizabeth Hall
(South Bank Center) opened in London.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Hall)
1967 Mar 1, Dominica became a West
Indies associated state with Edward Oliver LeBlanc as premier. Full
independence was attained on Nov. 03, 1978.
(www.chiefacoins.com/Database/Countries/Dominica.htm)
1967 Mar 1, St. Lucia became a
West Indies associated state with John Compton as Premier. It gained
full independence on Feb 22, 1979.
(www.stlucia1979.com/page3.htm)
1968 Mar 1, Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara was replaced by Clark Clifford.
(HN, 3/1/99)
1968 Mar 1, Singers Johnny Cash
(36) and June Carter (38) wed.
(SFC, 9/13/03, p.A12)
1968 Mar 1, The first 15-minute
version of the musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"
by Andrew Lloyd Weber was performed at Central Hall, Westminster,
London.
(www.thisistheatre.com/joseph/index.html)
1969 Mar 1, "Red, White, and
Maddox" closed at Cort Theater in NYC after 41 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3452)
1969 Mar 1, Mickey Mantle of the
NY Yankees announced his retirement from baseball.
(HN,
3/1/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mantle)
1969 Mar 1, Jim Morrison (d.1971),
lead singer for the Doors, was arrested for exposing himself at Dinner
Key Auditorium in Miami before 10,000 people.
(SC, 3/1/02)(SFC, 12/24/02, p.A13)
1970 Mar 1, Kreisky's
social-democrats won the Austrian parliamentary election.
(http://tinyurl.com/3tv72y)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_legislative_election,_1970)
1950 Mar 1, Kim Soo-im (b.1911), a
former US-employed assistant and lover to provost marshal Col. John E.
Baird, was arrested by South Korean police, joining thousands of others
ensnared in President Syngman Rhee's roundups of leftists — workers and
writers, teachers, peasants and others with suspect politics. She was
soon tried and executed in June by South Korea as an alleged spy.
(AP, 8/17/08)
1970 Mar 1, The white government
of Rhodesia declared independence from Britain.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/2/newsid_2514000/2514683.stm)
1971 Mar 1, The bombing in the
U.S. Capitol building was claimed to be in protest of U.S. involvement
in Laos. The bomb exploded in a Capitol restroom 30 minutes after a
telephone warning, which proclaimed the action to protest against U.S.
involvement in Laos. Some $200,000 in damage was caused by the bombing.
There were no injuries.
(HNQ, 7/30/98)
1972 Mar 1, David Rabe's "Sticks
and Bones" premiered in New York City.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticks_and_Bones)
1972 Mar 1, Kathy Boudin and
Bernardine Dohrn, members of the Weathermen, set explosives in the
1st-floor ladies room of the US Capitol building. [See Oct 20,1981]
(WSJ, 11/26/03,
p.A1)(http://hnn.us/articles/1155.html)
1973 Mar 1, In the Paumanok
Handicap at Aqueduct, NYC, Robyn Smith rode North Star to victory,
becoming the first woman jockey to win a stakes race.
(www.hickoksports.com/calendar/mar01.shtml)
1974 Mar 1, A grand jury in
Washington, DC, concluded that President Nixon was indeed involved in
the Watergate cover-up. 7 people, including former Nixon White
House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, former Attorney
General John Mitchell and former assistant Attorney General Robert
Mardian, were indicted on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice in
connection with the Watergate break-in. They were convicted the
following January, although Mardian's conviction was later reversed. In
2005 Vanity Fair Magazine revealed that W. Mark Felt (91), former FBI
official, was the Watergate whistleblower Deep Throat, who helped bring
down Pres. Nixon.
(HN, 3/1/98)(AP, 3/1/99)(AP, 6/1/05)
1975 Mar 1, In the 17th Grammy
Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch won.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Awards_of_1975)
1975 Mar 1, Eagles' "Best of My
Love" reached #1.
(www.joshhosler.biz/NumberOneInHistory/03/0301.htm)
1976 Mar 1, The US Intelligence
Oversight Board was created as part of Pres. Ford’s Feb 18 Executive
Order 11905. It was made up of private citizens and designed to ferret
out illegal spying activities. In 2008 Pres George W. Bush issued an
executive order that stripped the board of much of its authority.
(SSFC, 3/16/08, p.A4)
1977 Mar 1, The US 200-mile
fishery conservation zone went into effect. The US extended its
territorial waters out to 200 miles to stop fishing by boats of foreign
nations.
(www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=6865)(NH,
5/96, p.61)
1978 Mar 1, "Timbuktu!" opened at
Mark Hellinger Theater in NYC for 243 performances.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu!)
1979 Mar 1, "Sweeney Todd" with
Angel Lansbury opened at Uris Theater in NYC for 557 performances. The
score was by Stephen Sondheim.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweeney_Todd)(SFEC,
5/31/98, BR p.1)
1981 Mar 1, "Sophisticated Ladies"
opened at Lunt-Fontanne in NYC for 767 performances.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophisticated_Ladies)
1981 Mar 1, Roberto C. Goizueta
(d.1997) was named CEO of Coca-Cola. Under his direction Coke’s value
increased from $5 billion to $150 billion.
(SFEC,10/19/97, p.C11)
1981 Mar 1, Irish Republican Army
member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern
Ireland; he died 65 days later.
(AP, 3/1/00)
1982 Mar 1, Russian spacecraft
Venera 13 landed on Venus and sent back data.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_13)
1983 Mar 1, A tornado producing F2
damage touched down in St. Louis, Mo. It later strengthened and
produced F3 damage in Illinois causing five million dollars in damage.
(www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/trivia/mar_trivia.php)
1983 Mar 1, Arthur Koestler
(b.1905), Hungary-born British writer (Dialogue With Death), died in a
double suicide with his wife in London. His novels included "Darkness
at Noon" (1940). In 1998 David Cesarani authored "Arthur Koestler: The
Homeless Mind." In 2009 Michael Scammell authored “Koestler: The
Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic.”
(SSFC, 1/3/10, Books
p.F3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Koestler)
1984 Mar 1, NASA launched
Landsat-D Prime (Landsat 5) to map the Earth.
(http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/landsat5.html)
1984 Feb 19, The USSR
performed a nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan, Semipalitinsk.
(www.iss.niiit.ru/ksenia/catal_nt/3_10.htm)
1984 Mar 1, Jackie Coogan
(b.1914), actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), died.
(http://imdb.com/name/nm0001067/)
1985 Mar 1, The Pentagon accepted
the theory that an atomic war would block the sun, causing a "nuclear
winter."
(HN, 3/1/98)
1985 Mar 1, Herb Kohl (b.1935),
Milwaukee businessman and later US Senator (1988), purchased the
Milwaukee Bucks basketball team.
(www.nba.com/bucks/history/history.html)
1986 Mar 1, In Sweden Social
Democrat Ingvar Carlsson became prime minister. He served until October
1991. Under his administration Sweden made the decision to apply to
join the EU.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sweden)(Econ, 3/3/07,
p.57)
1988 Mar 1, Courtney Gibbs Eplin
(21) of Texas was crowned 37th Miss USA.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1988 Mar 1, President Reagan
arrived in Brussels, Belgium, for the first NATO summit in six years.
(AP, 3/1/98)
1988 Mar 1, Pontiac announced the
end of the Fiero automobile.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1988 Mar 1, Iraq said it had fired
16 missiles into Tehran in the first long-range rocket attack on the
Iranian capital since the Iran-Iraq war began.
(AP, 3/1/98)
1989 Mar 1, The Senate
overwhelmingly approved Dr. Louis W. Sullivan to be secretary of health
and human services and Adm. James D. Watkins to be secretary of energy.
(AP, 3/1/99)
1989 Mar 1, Ben Johnson's coach
testified that Johnson began using steroids in 1981.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1989 Mar 1, Julianne Phillips and
Bruce Springsteen divorced.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1989 Mar 1, Prairie Meadows
racetrack in Polk County near Des Moines, Iowa, opened for business. It
lost money until it was converted to a casino in April, 1995.
(WSJ, 6/24/96, B1,11)
1989 Mar 1, Three teenagers in New
Jersey assaulted a mentally retarded girl with a broom and a baseball
bat as up to ten classmates watched. They were sentenced to up to 15
years in a youth facility in 1997. In 1997 Prof. Bernard Lefkowitz
wrote “Our Guys,” an investigation of the events surrounding the crime.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A3)(SFEC,11/16/97, BR p.3)
1990 Mar 1, The controversial
Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant won federal permission to go on
line after two decades of protests and legal struggles.
(AP, 3/1/00)
1990 Mar 1, Benin nullified its
constitution.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1990 Mar 1, Luis Alberto Lacelle
was sworn in as President of Uruguay.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1991 Mar 1, President Bush said
“we’ve kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all” following the
allied victory in the Gulf War.
(AP, 3/1/01)
1991 Mar 1, The US Embassy in
Kuwait officially reopened.
(AP, 3/1/01)
1991 Mar 1, Edwin H. Land,
inventor of polarizing filters and Polaroid instant photography, died
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at age 81. He had co-founded Polaroid
Corp. with George Wheelwright III (d.2001 at 97).
(AP, 3/1/01)(SFC, 3/3/01, p.A22)
1991 Mar 1-7, US military
specialists surveyed and then detonated a bunker at Kamisiyah, Iraq.
The site had been declared a chemical weapons storage area by Iraq
after the Gulf War. No trace of chemical agents were found before or
after but US & UN inspections teams had earlier found nerve agent
rockets and mustard gas shells in open pits at the site. It was later
acknowledged by the Pentagon that more than 15,000 US troops may have
been exposed to nerve gas due to the detonations. Defense Department
logs of this period were later reported lost. In April 1997 the CIA
acknowledged errors that led to the demolition.
(SFC, 6/22/96, p.A15)(SFC, 10/19/96, A4)(SFC,
3/1/97, p.A2)(SFC, 4/10/97, p.A1)
1991 Mar 1-7, The US military used
new ammunition made of depleted uranium. It produced a toxic debris
that US soldiers were not informed about at the time.
(SFEC, 8/17/97, p.A1)
1992 Mar 1, "Little Hotel on the
Side" closed at Belasco in NYC after 41 performances.
(www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0405)
1992 Mar 1, "Visit" closed at
Criterion Theater in NYC after 45 performances.
(www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0426)
1992 Mar 1, Sen. Brock Adams
abandoned his re-election campaign after eight women accused him in a
Seattle Times report of sexual abuse and harassment.
(AP, 3/1/02)
1992 Mar 1, Bosnian Serbs began
sniping in Sarajevo, after Croats and Moslems voted for Bosnian
independence.
(HN, 3/1/99)
1993 Mar 1, George Steinbrenner
was reinstated as owner of New York Yankees.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1993 Mar 1, The new expansion
NHL (hockey) team, owned by Disney, was named the Mighty Ducks.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1993 Mar 1, Authorities near Waco,
Texas, continued negotiating with Branch Davidians holed up in their
bullet-scarred compound, a day after a furious gun battle between the
Davidians and federal agents that left 10 people dead.
(AP, 3/1/98)
1993 Mar 1, Luis Kutner (b.1908),
US human rights activist, died. He and Peter Benenson co-founded
Amnesty International (1961).
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9112409?tocId=9112409)
1994 Mar 1, At the 36th annual
Grammy Awards, Whitney Houston won best female pop vocalist and record
of the year for "I Will Always Love You"; "The Bodyguard" won album of
the year.
(AP, 3/1/99)
1994 Mar 1, Falling four votes shy
of a two-thirds majority, the US Senate rejected a balanced budget
amendment to the Constitution.
(AP, 3/1/99)
1994 Mar 1, Martti Ahtisaari was
inaugurated as President of Finland.
(SFC, 6/4/99, p.A10)(SC, 3/1/02)
1994 Mar 1, A Lebanese immigrant
opened fire on a van of Hasidic students on New York's Brooklyn Bridge,
killing one.
(AP, 3/1/99)
1995 Mar 1, At the 37th annual
Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Sheryl Crow won record of the year for
"All I Wanna Do" while Tony Bennett's "MTV Unplugged" was named best
album.
(AP, 3/1/00)
1995 Mar 1, As of this day Belgian
armed forces consisted of professional volunteers only.
(www.wri-irg.org/co/rtba/archive/belgium.htm)
1995 Mar 1, The Bosnian Serb
government received a $60 million mortgage for the oil refinery in
Srpski Brod from a Liberian-owned company, Orbal Marketing Service Ltd.
[see Jan 1995] Delivery was made to the Bosnian Serbs in late March of
a supposed nuclear device of red mercury at the Gradiska border. It was
discovered to be a swindle.
(SFEC,12/14/97, p.A25)
1995 Mar 1, Jozef Oleksy succeeded
Waldemar Pawlak as premier of Poland.
(http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Waldemar+Pawlak)
1995 Mar 1, Somalia militiamen
loyal to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid seized control of the Mogadishu
airport after peacekeepers withdrew.
(AP, 3/1/00)
1995 Mar 1, Vitaly Massol, Ukraine
premier, resigned.
(www.ukraine-observer.com/articles/205/612)
1995 Mar 1, Julio Maria
Sanguinetti was sworn in as President of Uruguay.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Mar%C3%ADa_Sanguinetti)
1996 Mar 1, Lenny Wilkens,
winningest coach in NBA, coached his 1,000th victory.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1996 Mar 1, President Clinton
slapped economic sanctions on Colombia, concluding that Colombian
authorities had not fully cooperated with the US war on drugs.
(AP, 3/1/01)
1996 Mar 1, The Food and Drug
Administration approved a powerful new AIDS drug, saying ritonavir
could prolong slightly the lives of severely ill patients.
(AP, 3/1/01)
1996 Mar 1, New toll-free 888 area
code was introduced.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1996 Mar 1, Plans were approved
allowing traffic cameras at High Harrington and Shap, England.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1997 Mar 1, At Spring Lake near
Santa Rosa, Ca., Paul Duclos caught a 24-pound largemouth bass,
photographed it, weighed it and released it. The official record was a
22-pound, 4-ounce bass caught in Montgomery Lake, Ga. To be official
the fish has to be killed, properly weighed and certified by the Int’l.
Gamefish Assoc.
(SFEC, 4/20/97, p.C3)
1997 Mar 1, Severe storms hit
Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi, and spawned tornadoes in
Arkansas blamed for two dozen deaths.
(AP, 3/1/98)
1997 Mar 1, In Albania Pres. Sali
Berisha said that his cabinet ministers would resign and be replaced by
leaders acceptable to the opposition .
(SFEC, 3/2/97, p.A14)
1997 Mar 1, In Austria it was
announced that the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra would allow Ann
Lelkes, a harpist who had played with the orchestra for 26 years, to
become an official member. There still existed an unofficial but firm
policy against admitting members of racial or ethnic minorities.
(SFC, 3/1/97, p.E1)
1997 Mar 1, Rescue teams fought
snow, high winds and wild dogs as they tried to bring help to an
earthquake-devastated region in northwest Iran, where the death toll
was estimated at 3,000.
(AP, 3/1/98)
1997 Mar 1, In Papua New Guinea
Sir Julius Chan announced that the government would buy the 54% stake
in Bougainville Copper held by RTZ-CRA Ltd.
(WSJ, 3/4/97, p.A15)
1997 Mar 1, In Sudan the
government signed an agreement to build a 900-mile pipeline from the
southern oilfields to Port Sudan on the Red Sea. Chinese National
Petroleum would control 40% and Malaysia would own 30% through its
state owned oil company.
(WSJ, 3/11/97, p.A22)
1998 Mar 1, "Art" opened at Royale
Theater NYC.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1998 Mar 1, Burma’s military
regime arrested 40 people it accused of planning to assassinate leaders
and bomb buildings.
(WSJ, 3/2/98, p.A1)
1998 Mar 1, China pledged to spend
$32.6 billion to stabilize nearly insolvent state banks amid the Asian
financial crises.
(WSJ, 1/4/98, p.R4)
1998 Mar 1, In Germany, Lower
Saxony Governor Gerhard Schroeder won a sweeping re-election that paved
the way for his successful campaign to oust Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
(AP, 3/1/99)
1998 Mar 1, Weekend clashes in
Kosovo left 24 ethnic Albanians and 4 Serb policemen dead. Police
arrested 5 people and seized weapons caches.
(WSJ, 3/2/98, p.A1)(FT, 3/4/98, p.1)
1999 Mar 1, The US General
Accounting Office released an audit of the Internal Revenue Service
which found chronic problems in the agency's record-keeping.
(AP, 3/1/00)
1999 Mar 1, Minutes before a
midnight deadline Pacific Lumber agreed with government negotiators on
a $480 million deal to preserve the Headwaters Forest in northern
California. 10,000 acres of old growth forest was to be sold and
protection was imposed on 211,000 acres of adjacent lands.
(SFC, 3/2/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 1, The Service Employees
Int'l. Union announced a major campaign to organize salaried physicians.
(SFC, 3/2/99, p.A6)
1999 Mar 1, New York Univ.
announced that its journalism professors and others had compiled a list
of the top 100 works of 20th century American journalism.
(WSJ, 3/12/99, p.W18)
1999 Mar 1, The 1997 Ottawa
Treaty, banning the use, production, transfer and storage of land
mines, went into effect. 133 countries honored the treaty but the US
and China had not signed it. Participating nations agreed to destroy
anti-personnel land mines within 4 years and to get them out of fields
within 10.
(SFEC, 1/3/99, Par p.13)(SFC, 2/19/99, p.A3)
1999 Mar 1, A US report on policy
with North Korea indicated that North Korea was involved in the
production and distribution of narcotics. An area 10-17 thousand acres
was estimated to be under poppy cultivation with opium production at
30-44 annual metric tons.
(SFC, 3/27/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 1, Balloonists Bertrand
Piccard of Switzerland and Brian Jones of Britain took off from the
Swiss Alps in an attempt to circle the globe.
(SFC, 3/15/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 1, In Colombia a
far-right death squad killed 8 people and kidnapped 3 in
Barrancabermeja, a stronghold of the National Liberation Army (ELN).
(SFC, 3/2/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 1, In Haiti Senator
Jean-Yvon Toussaint (47) was shot in the head in Delmas.
(SFC, 3/2/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 1, In Indonesia 9 people
were killed when police opened fire on a crowd outside a mosque at
Ambon.
(SFC, 3/2/99, p.A9)
1999 Mar 1, US warplanes dropped
over 30 laser-guided bombs on military targets in northern Iraq.
(SFC, 3/2/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 1, In Nigeria a gasoline
bombing of 2 police stations left 2 people dead including one policeman
and 4 injured. The attack was blamed on a group called Odudua, which
wants a separate country for the Yoruba tribe of southwest Nigeria.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.C4)
1999 Mar 1, In Uganda Hutu rebels
kidnapped 13 tourists and an unknown number of Ugandans at the Bwindi
Nat'l. Park. Linda Adams of Alamo, Ca., escaped, the rebels by faking
an asthma attack. An attack by Rwandan Hutu rebels left eight foreign
tourists, including two Americans, and a park guard dead. Separately
rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces killed 5 people in a camp near
Ntotoro village.
(SFC, 3/2/99, p.A8)(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A1,C5)(AP, 3/1/00)
2000 Mar 1, Candidates in both
major parties turned their focus to Super Tuesday, a day after Texas
Governor George W. Bush won primaries in Virginia, North Dakota and
Washington state, while Vice President Al Gore won in Washington state.
(AP, 3/1/01)
2000 Mar 1, Classes were canceled
at Buell Elementary School in Mount Morris Township, Michigan, a day
after six-year-old Kayla Rolland was fatally shot, allegedly by a
fellow first-grader.
(AP, 3/1/01)
2000 Mar 1, In Pennsylvania Ronald
Taylor (39) killed 3 people and wounded 2 at an apartment and 2 fast
food restaurants in Wilkinsburg. In 2001 Taylor was sentenced to death
for the killing of 3 white men.
(SFC, 3/2/00, p.A3)(AP, 3/1/01)(SFC, 11/12/01, p.A12)
2000 Mar 1, In Britain Home Sec.
Jack Straw ruled that Gen. Pinochet should not be extradited to Spain.
(SFC, 3/2/00, p.A11)
2000 Mar 1, In Ecuador the
Congress passed legislation to replace the sucre with US dollars in a
bid to end a recession.
(WSJ, 3/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 1, In Japan police
officials reported that the Aum Shinri Kyo sect had developed software
for at least 10 government agencies and for more than 80 major
companies in recent years. The sect had recently changed its name to
Aleph and denounced its violent past.
(SFC, 3/2/00, p.A10)
2000 Mar 1, In Nigeria Pres.
Obasanjo deplored the recent killings in the southeast as the death
toll passed 400.
(WSJ, 3/2/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 1, In Sudan government
aircraft bombed a hospital compound in rebel-held territory in Lui. 2
people were killed and a dozen injured.
(SFC, 3/4/00, p.C1)
2001 Mar 1, Afghanistan's ruling
Taliban, defying international protests, began destroying all statues
in the country.
(AP, 3/1/02)
2001 Mar 1, The UK banned the
Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
(WSJ, 12/8/08, p.A6)
2001 Mar 1, China was reported to
consumed a little over 6% of the world’s total 75.5 million barrels per
day.
(WSJ, 3/1/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 1, In Ecuador 7 foreign
oil workers (a Chilean, an Argentine, a New Zealander and four
Americans), kidnapped last October, were released following a $13
million ransom.
(SFC, 3/2/01, p.A16)(AP, 3/1/02)
2001 Mar 1, The Fiji high court
ruled that the military-backed government was illegal and that the 1997
multi-racial constitution remained in effect.
(SFC, 3/2/01, p.D5)(Econ, 8/14/04, p.40)
2001 Mar 1, In Israel a
Palestinian in a taxi detonated a bomb that killed one passenger,
injured 9 and blew off his own legs.
(SFC, 3/2/01, p.A17)
2002 Mar 1, Pres. Bush approved
plans to send some 100 US troops to Yemen to help train the nation’s
military to fight terrorists.
(SFC, 3/2/02, p.A14)
2002 Mar 1, Under pressure from
prosecutors, the Archdiocese of Boston agreed to turn over the names of
people allegedly molested by priests.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2002 Mar 1, The space shuttle
Columbia with 7 astronauts blasted into orbit on an 11-day mission that
included work on the Hubble Space Telescope.
(SFC, 3/2/02, p.A3)
2002 Mar 1, NASA scientists said
that vast ice fields had been detected under the surface of Mars with a
gamma ray spectrometer on the Odyssey orbiter
(SFC, 3/2/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 1, Grand American series
driver Jeff Clinton was killed during practice in a crash at
Homestead-Miami Speedway.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2002 Mar 1, In China laid-off
workers of the Daqing Oilfield Co. began massive protests for
re-negotiation of early retirement packages. Some 86,000 of 260,000
workers had been laid off since 1999. Daily protests hit as many as 50k
workers.
(WSJ, 3/14/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/20/02, p.A9)
2002 Mar 1, In Gujarat, India, the
death toll from Hindu-Muslim violence passed 300 and some 3,500 troops
moved into Ahmadabad to quell the violence. 14 Muslims burned to death
in the Best Bakery in Vadodara. 21 Hindus, accused of murder, were
later acquitted after almost 40 witnesses withdrew evidence.
(SFC, 3/2/02, p.A1)(Econ, 9/20/03, p.40)
2002 Mar 1, Israeli troops swept
through refugee camps in Jenin and Nablus looking for terror suspects.
One solder was killed along with 6 Palestinians fighters and a
10-year-old girl.
(SFC, 3/2/02, p.A7)
2003 Mar 1, The US
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) ceased to exist as it was
incorporated into the Dept. of Homeland Security.
(SFC, 3/1/03, A6)
2003 Mar 1, The US
designated 3 rebel groups in Chechnya as terrorist organizations linked
to al-Qaeda and imposed a freeze on their US assets.
(SSFC, 3/2/03, A21)
2003 Mar 1, In Geneva more
than 170 nations agreed, despite US objections, on a text for a tobacco
treaty that would impose worldwide restrictions on advertising and
labeling, while clamping down on smuggling and second-hand smoke.
(AP, 3/1/03)
2003 Mar 1, In Brazil a
truce between landless farmworkers and President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva peace ended, when some 1,000 landless farmers occupied a ranch 80
miles west of Sao Paulo.
(AP, 3/6/03)
2003 Mar 1, Rebels attacked
the motorcade of Chechnya's pro-Moscow leader, Akhmad Kadyrov, killing
four bodyguards and three policemen.
(AP, 3/3/03)
2003 Mar 1, Arab leaders
held a summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The UAR became the 1st Arab
country to call for Saddam Hussein to step down.
(SSFC, 3/2/03, A8)
2003 Mar 1, Iraq destroyed
4 of over 100 Al Samoud 2 missiles and agreed with the UN on a
timetable to dismantle the rest of the missile program.
(AP, 3/1/03)(SSFC, 3/2/03, A1)
2003 Mar 1, In the Ivory
Coast government helicopter gunships attacked a rebel-held Bin-Houye,
killing 20 civilians and injuring many others.
(AP, 3/2/03)
2003 Mar 1, In Pakistan a
joint raid outside Islamabad by CIA and Pakistani agents led to the
arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (Khaled Sheikh Mohammed), the
suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, along with 2
others. Documents and computer files later revealed that the al Qaeda
biochemical weapons program was well advanced.
(AP, 3/1/03)(SSFC, 3/23/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 1, In Poland the
year-old left-leaning government under PM Leszek Miller collapsed after
an emergency meeting between coalition partners broke down in a bitter
dispute sparked by a new tax plan.
(AP, 3/1/03)(SSFC, 3/2/03, A7)
2003 Mar 1, A small plane
crashed in central Russia, killing 11 people.
(AP, 3/1/03)
2003 Mar 1, In South Korea
some 100,000 older people held a pro-US rally in Seoul. Hours later
thousands of young people held an anti-US rally.
(SSFC, 3/2/03, A16)
2003 Mar 1, In central
Taiwan a train filled with tourists on a weekend outing overturned
while descending a mountain, killing 17 people and injuring 102.
(AP, 3/1/03)
2003 Mar 1, Turkey's
parliament failed to approve a bill allowing in American combat troops
to open a northern front against Iraq. Lawmakers voted 264-250 in favor
of stationing US troops but that was 3 votes shy of a constitutionally
mandated simple majority.
(AP, 3/2/03)(AP, 3/1/08)
2003 Mar 1, The United Arab
Emirates called for Saddam Hussein to step down, the first Arab country
to do so publicly.
(AP, 3/1/04)
2004 Mar 1, US officials said the
United States has turned over seven Russian citizens who were being
held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
(AP, 3/1/04)
2004 Mar 1, The California Supreme
Court ruled a Roman Catholic charity had to offer birth-control
coverage to its employees.
(AP, 3/1/05)
2004 Mar 1, An explosion in an
unlicensed coal mine in northern China killed 28 miners.
(AP, 3/3/04)
2004 Mar 1, In Haiti rebels rolled
into the capital and were met by hundreds of residents dancing in the
streets and cheering the ouster of Pres. Jean-Bertrand Aristide. U.S.
Marines and French troops moved to take control of the impoverished
country as Aristide arrived in South Africa. There were reports of
reprisal killings.
(AP, 3/1/04)(WSJ, 3/2/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 1, Jean-Bertrand Aristide
from the Central African Republic said in a telephone interview that he
was "forced to leave" Haiti by U.S. military forces.
(AP, 3/1/04)(SFC, 3/02/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 1, In eastern India a
motorboat packed with players and spectators heading to a cricket match
capsized, and police said 20 people were feared dead.
(AP, 3/1/04)
2004 Mar 1, Iraqi politicians
agreed on an interim constitution with 2 official languages, a wide
ranging bill of rights and a single chief executive, bridging a gulf
between members over the role of Islam in the future government.
(AP, 3/1/04)(WSJ, 3/2/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 1, President Vladimir
Putin nominated Mikhail Fradkov, a former tax police chief who is
Russia's representative to the European Union, for the post of prime
minister.
(AP, 3/1/04)
2004 Mar 1, Kujo Krijestorac (51),
a key witness to the murder of Serbian PM Zoran Djindjic, was gunned
down near his Belgrade home.
(AP, 3/9/04)
2005 Mar 1, The US Supreme Court
ruled 5-4 that executing murderers under age 18 is unconstitutional.
(SFC, 3/2/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 1, Dennis Rader, the
churchgoing family man accused of leading a double life as the BTK
serial killer, was charged in Wichita, Kan., with 10 counts of
first-degree murder. Rader later pleaded guilty and received multiple
life sentences.
(AP, 3/1/06)
2005 Mar 1, In Congo UN
peacekeeping troops, backed by an attack helicopter, responded after
being fired on and killed up to 60 militants accused of terrorizing
villagers and killing nine Bangladeshi peacekeepers. Congo arrested an
eastern militia leader and 2 generals related to the peacekeeper
killings. Women fighters were among the 50 people killed by UN troops
under Dutch Gen. Patrick Cammaert. On April 12 the human rights group
Justice Plus listed names of several alleged civilian victims from the
raid in eastern Congo and said they "paid with their life, while the
mandate of the United Nations was to protect them."
(AP, 3/2/05)(WSJ, 3/2/05, p.A1)(Reuters,
3/5/05)(Econ, 3/12/05, p.49)(AP, 4/13/05)
2005 Mar 1, French journalist
Florence Aubenas, looking pale and distraught, appealed for help on a
video in her first since she went missing in Iraq on Jan. 5.
(AP, 3/1/05)
2005 Mar 1, In Guatemala City some
8,000 protesters, most of them teachers, demonstrated in the capital
against a pending free-trade agreement between Central America and the
US.
(AP, 3/2/05)
2005 Mar 1, Indonesia reduced
subsidies on various fuels.
(Econ, 3/5/05, p.43)
2005 Mar 1, In northern Baghdad's
Azamyiah district gunmen killed judge Barwez Mohammed Mahmoud (59) and
his lawyer son, members of Iraq’s war crimes tribunal.
(AP, 3/2/05)(SFC, 3/2/05, p.A12)
2005 Mar 1, Lebanon's president
took on the task of forming a new government, while opposition leaders
shook off the jubilation of using people power to force out a
pro-Syrian Cabinet.
(AP, 3/1/05)
2005 Mar 1, Palestinian leader
Mahmoud Abbas pledged to reform Palestinian security. Militants in the
West Bank town of Jenin issued a belligerent challenge to the new
Palestinian leadership's efforts to rein in militant groups, shooting
in the air and demanding that the visiting security chief, Interior
Minister Nasser Yousef, leave the area immediately.
(AP, 3/1/05)
2005 Mar 1, In Geneva, Switz.,
Edouard Stern, French financier and former Lazard banker, was found
dead in his home. Swiss police later arrested Cecile Brossard (36), his
French lover, who confessed to the sex-related killing of banker
Edouard Stern. During her trial in 2009 she said that she lost control
after Stern called her a whore. On June 18, 2009, Brossard was
sentenced to eight and a half years in prison.
(WSJ, 3/3/05, p.A1)(AP, 3/16/05)(WSJ, 4/14/05,
p.A1)(SFC, 6/15/09, p.A2)(AP, 6/18/09)
2005 Mar 1, Ukraine’s top security
body decided to Ukrainian troops from Iraq.
(SFC, 3/2/05, p.A12)
2005 Mar 1, Dr. Tabare Vazquez
(65) took office as Uruguay's first socialist president, joining the
ranks of left-leaning leaders in Latin America, now six in all,
governing a majority of the region's people with a cautious approach to
U.S.-backed free-market policies. In one of his first official acts, he
restored full diplomatic ties with communist Cuba, more than two years
after a diplomatic row divided the countries.
(AP, 3/1/05)
2006 Mar 1, President Bush, on an
unannounced visit to Afghanistan, vowed to stand by this emerging
democracy and "not cut and run" in the face of rising violence. He also
predicted Osama bin Laden would be captured despite a futile five-year
hunt.
(AP, 3/1/06)
2006 Mar 1, The Cape Town
Convention, aimed to cut the risk of financing the purchase or lease of
aircraft, became effective. It made it easier for creditors to seize
airplanes from deadbeat carriers.
(WSJ, 2/27/06, p.A4)
2006 Mar 1, A senior official said
authorities have regained control of Afghanistan's Policharki prison
after four days of rioting allegedly sparked by al-Qaida and Taliban
convicts. 6 inmates were killed in the revolt.
(AP, 3/1/06)
2006 Mar 1, Algeria said it will
release more than 2,000 Islamist ex-fighters soon under an amnesty to
promote reconciliation after years of conflict in the oil-exporting
country.
(Reuters, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 1, British police charged
three suspects in the $92 million robbery at a cash depot in
southeastern England, the world's largest known peacetime theft.
(AP, 3/1/06)
2006 Mar 1, Actor Jack Wild (53),
who'd played the Artful Dodger in the 1968 film "Oliver!," died in
Bedfordshire, England.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2006 Mar 1, China moved ahead with
3 new internet address suffixes in the Chinese language, as national
variants to .cn, .com and .net.
(Econ, 3/4/06, p.61)
2006 Mar 1, Congolese army
soldiers fighting alongside U.N. peacekeepers against ethnic militiamen
mutinied and ransacked a UN camp in the east of the vast country.
Hundreds of peacekeepers and thousands of government troops have fought
for three days to dislodge militia fighters from the town of Tchei in
northeastern Ituri district, where ethnic violence has killed 60,000
people since 1999.
(Reuters, 3/1/06)(Reuters, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 1, El Salvador became the
first Central American nation to join a regional free trade agreement
with the United States.
(AP, 3/1/06)
2006 Mar 1, Greek lawmakers
approved new legislation to lift a standing ban on cremation of the
dead.
(AP, 3/1/06)
2006 Mar 1, Two Haitian security
guards employed by the US Embassy were shot to death near the American
ambassador's official residence.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 1, In India tens of
thousands of Indians waving black and white flags and chanting "Death
to Bush!" rallied in New Delhi to protest a visit by President Bush.
(AP, 3/1/06)
2006 Mar 1, In Iraq a car bomb
near a traffic police office in a primarily Shiite neighborhood in
southeast Baghdad killed at least 23 people and wounded 58. A bomb
hidden under a car detonated as a police patrol passed near downtown
Tahrir Square. 3 civilians died and 15 were wounded. Mortar shells fell
on 3 houses in the mixed Sunni-Shiite town of Mahmoudiya, 20 miles
south of Baghdad, killing 3 civilians. A fifth mortar shell slammed
into the mixed Qadisiyah neighborhood in west Baghdad, killing a woman
and wounding a child. At least 47 people were killed as sectarian and
insurgent killings continued.
(AP, 3/1/06)(WSJ, 3/2/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 1, It was reported that
Japan was on the verge of a shift in monetary policy. An end to a
policy of easy money, begun in 2001 to spur spending, was expected to
have a major effect on global financial markets as interest rates got
forced up.
(WSJ, 3/1/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 1, Inmates of Juweideh
prison released Jordan's top prison official along with a half-dozen
police officers they had taken hostage, ending a 14-hour riot in 3
prisons that broke out over the fate of two convicted al-Qaida killers.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 1, Kosovo PM Bajram
Kosumi resigned, days after the start of crucial talks on whether the
province will gain full independence or remain part of Serbia.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 1, Security forces in
western Nepal found 29 bodies of soldiers and suspected rebels at the
site of a fierce clash. Five insurgents were reported killed in an
accidental explosion.
(AP, 3/1/06)
2006 Mar 1, In Nigeria militants
released six foreign oil workers, including a diabetic Texan
celebrating his 69th birthday, taken captive last month to press
fighters' demands for a greater share of oil revenues generated in this
restive southern state.
(AP, 3/1/06)
2006 Mar 1, Pakistani security
forces backed by helicopter gunships struck a militant hide-out in a
tribal region near the Afghan border, killing 45 fighters, including a
Chechen commander linked to al-Qaida.
(AP, 3/1/06)
2006 Mar 1, Palestinian leaders
returned some $30 million of $46 million that the US donated directly
to the government and will send back the rest before the militant Hamas
organization takes over. The current government, led by Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas' moderate Fatah Party, agreed under US pressure
to return about $46 million in unspent direct donations. The
Palestinian Authority gets about $1 billion of its annual $1.9 billion
budget from overseas donors, with European nations the largest
contributors.
(AP, 3/2/06)
2006 Mar 1, An explosion in a car
in Gaza City killed rocket maker Khaled Dahdouh (45), Islamic Jihad's
top military commander in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military, which
carries out pinpointed attacks against militants in the coastal strip,
said it was not involved. Palestinian militants shot and killed a
Jewish settler traveling on a road near the settlement of Tapuah.
(AP, 3/1/06)
2006 Mar 1, Russia reported that
some 495,000 birds had died from H5N1 bird flu in regions near the
Caspian and Black seas since Feb 3.
(SFC, 3/2/06, p.A6)
2007 Mar 1, The US Department of
Defense notified Congress that it plans to sell Taiwan missiles worth
$421 million dollars.
(AFP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, The US Army general in
charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center was relieved of command after
disclosures about dilapidated buildings and inadequate treatment of
wounded soldiers.
(AP, 3/1/08)
2007 Mar 1, An independent
commission concluded the US National Guard and Reserves weren't getting
enough money or equipment.
(AP, 3/1/08)
2007 Mar 1, The US military
announced that it has sent home two Afghans and three Tajikistani
detainees at Guantanamo Bay, leaving fewer that 400 prisoners at the
naval base.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, Deborah Palfrey
(1956-2008) of Vallejo, Ca., was indicted in Washington DC for running
a $2 million prostitution ring. She threatened to sell detailed phone
records of her clients to pay for her defense. At least 132 women were
employed by her firm in the Washington area from 1993-2006. On April
15, 2008, Palfrey was convicted of racketeering and other charges.
(SFC, 3/3/07, p.B1)(SFC, 4/16/08, p.A2)
2007 Mar 1, Paul Joyal (53), a US
expert on Russian intelligence, was hit several times as he returned
home in Washington DC. The shooting came four days after Joyal alleged
in a major television network interview that the government of Russian
President Vladimir Putin was involved in the radiation poisoning of a
former KGB agent in London.
(AFP, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 1, A violent storm system
ripped apart an Alabama high school as students hunkered inside and
later tore through Georgia, hitting a hospital and raising the death
toll to at least 20 across the Midwest and Southeast. Eight students
died when a tornado struck Alabama’s Enterprise High School.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, NASA said the Cassini
spacecraft has snapped never-before-seen images of Saturn showing the
planet from perspectives above and below its ring system.
(Reuters, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, In western Afghanistan
a bomb targeting a provincial police chief's vehicle killed two people
and wounded 53. Authorities in Helmand province found the
bullet-riddled body of a kidnapped doctor.
(AFP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, Argentine President
Nestor Kirchner trumpeted his government's performance on the economy
and human rights during his state-of-the-nation address, and also
defended his ties to Venezuelan leftist Hugo Chavez. Argentina under
Kirchner had begun doctoring inflation statistics to keep them in
single digits while the true rate this year rose to around 25%. The
government was able to save some $500 million in payments on bonds
linked to the consumer price index, but destroyed its credibility.
(AP, 3/1/07)(Econ, 9/27/08, p.49)
2007 Mar 1, Belarus dismissed new
financial sanctions imposed by the United States as politically
senseless. President Alexander Lukashenko said his country was ready to
normalize relations with Washington.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, Belgian firefighters
clashed with police, trading barrages from water cannons during a
chaotic demonstration near the nation's parliament, injuring six
people. The firefighters sought better working conditions, earlier
retirement and better compensation when they are injured.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, In Brazil Slovenian
Martin Strel approached the halfway point of his attempt to swim the
entire length of the Amazon river, trying to avoid severe burns,
alligators and the dreaded bloodsucking toothpick fish.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, Britain confirmed it
will withdraw its more than 600 remaining troops from Bosnia as
concerns about security in the Balkan state ease.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, Cynthia Carroll (49),
former head of Canada’s Alcan Primary Metal Group, replaced Tony Trahar
as CEO of Anglo American, the world’s 2nd biggest mining conglomerate.
(Econ, 6/30/07,
p.77)(www.miningmx.com/mining_fin/318860.htm)
2007 Mar 1, In Colombia a car bomb
exploded in the southern city of Neiva, injuring 8 people in an
apparent assassination attempt of the town's pro-government mayor by
leftist rebels.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 1, In Denmark dozens of
people were arrested after angry protesters threw cobblestones at
police when an anti-terror squad started a disputed eviction of
squatters from a building in downtown Copenhagen.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, In northern Ethiopia
15 European tourists were kidnapped in the Afar desert. The ARDUF has
been fighting for years against Ethiopia and Eritrea over lands
inhabited by ethnic Afar.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 1, EU officials launched
the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, an effort to stamp out
intolerance in the 27-nation bloc under a crush of immigrants.
(SFC, 3/2/07, p.A14)
2007 Mar 1, In France, Germany and
Spain workers at Airbus revolted against massive cutbacks, planning a
strike next week in a warning to the company that its recovery strategy
is in for a long, tough haul.
(AFP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, The environment
ministry in the state of Lower Saxony said a German man had obtained
enriched uranium and buried it in his garden, raising concerns about
the security of Germany's nuclear reactors.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, India’s government
approved a proposal to merge 4 state-owned air-carriers in order to
make them more competitive.
(Econ, 3/10/07, p.59)
2007 Mar 1, Surender Koli, an
Indian servant, confessed to killing and sexually assaulting at least
19 children and women and stuffing their dismembered remains into a
storm drain outside the house where he worked.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 1, In Iraq one person
killed in a roadside bomb in Baghdad. Up to 5 guests were killed and 10
injured when a car bomb exploded at a police officer’s wedding in
Fallujah. An American Marine was killed in combat in Anbar province.
(AP, 3/1/07)(AP, 3/2/07)(SFC, 3/2/07, p.A8)
2007 Mar 1, PM Shinzo Abe said
there was no evidence Japan coerced Asian women into working as sex
slaves during World War II, backtracking from a landmark 1993 statement
in which the government acknowledged that it set up and ran brothels
for its troops. A passenger train derailed in northern Japan after
slamming into a truck, leaving dozens injured including 25 high school
students.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, Avalanches and
landslides in Kashmir forced Indian security teams to airlift thousands
of people to safe areas, while at least eight Pakistani soldiers were
feared dead after they were buried under a snowslide near the Afghan
border.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 1, Morocco’s King
Mohammed VI pardoned 8,836 prisoners to celebrate the birth of his baby
girl. Princess Lalla Salma gave birth to a baby girl a day earlier. The
king also reduced the sentences of 24,218 other prisoners.
(AP, 3/3/07)
2007 Mar 1, North Korea's No. 2
leader pledged his country's commitment to giving up its nuclear
program amid intensifying diplomacy aimed at implementing Pyongyang's
pledge to disarm.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, Paraguay declared a
state of emergency following a wave of dengue fever cases as concerns
over the mosquito-borne illness rise across Latin America. Health
officials have reported some 14,000 cases of the disease this year,
with four deaths.
(AP, 3/2/07)
2007 Mar 1, In Peru church bells
rang and a sea of confetti fluttered through Lima's historical central
plaza at the stroke of noon, alerting Peruvians to synchronize their
watches at the start of a nationwide campaign to promote punctuality.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, In Puerto Rico the US
attorney's office in San Juan announced that a US federal grand jury
indicted seven people in a case where terminally ill cancer patients
were allegedly injected with a bogus cure made from the patients' own
blood.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, President Vladimir
Putin nominated Ramzan Kadyrov, a widely feared security chief, as the
new president of Chechnya. Europe's human rights chief denounced
torture and other rampant abuses in the war-battered region. Kadyrov,
who previously had served as Chechnya's prime minister, has run a
security force that is accused of abducting and abusing suspected
rebels and civilians believed to be connected to them.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, Senegal officials said
President Abdoulaye Wade received 56 percent of the vote to avoid a
runoff and easily win re-election in this West African nation.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, Singapore’s American
Chamber of Commerce said trade between Singapore and the United States
rose 19 percent in 2006 from the year before, the second fastest growth
rate among Washington's major trading partners.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, An advance team of an
African peacekeeping force to Somalia arrived unannounced into the
country.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2007 Mar 1, Zambia's Lands
Minister Gladys Nyirongo acknowledged at a major conference on graft in
Africa that "Corruption is everywhere, in the villages, wherever."
Hours later she was sacked. President Levy Mwanawasa said: "She gave
land to herself, her two daughters, her sons and her husband."
(AP, 3/4/07)
2007 Mar 1, Zimbabwe's central
bank introduced two new bank notes as it battles a four figure rate of
inflation that is rapidly eroding the value of the local currency.
Zimbabwe state media reported that the government has admitted that
state agents are jamming radio broadcasts by foreign stations deemed
hostile to President Robert Mugabe's government.
(AP, 3/1/07)
2008 Mar 1, It was reported that
78% of Americans say they belong to the Christian tradition, while 5%
said they belong to other faiths.
(Econ, 3/1/08, p.34)
2008 Mar 1, In Emory, Texas, a
teenage girl joined her boyfriend and two others to help kill her
mother and 2 brothers (8,13). Her parents had demanded that she break
up with her boyfriend. Terry Caffey, the father, survived with 5 shots.
(SFC, 3/3/08, p.A4)
2008 Mar 1, In eastern Afghanistan
a roadside bomb struck a tractor, killing three people, including a
woman and a child, and wounding seven others.
(AP, 3/1/08)
2008 Mar 1, Algerian troops called
in helicopters and assaulted a hideout with rockets and helicopter
fire, killing 25 members of an al-Qaida affiliate in North Africa.
(AP, 3/2/08)
2008 Mar 1, Armenian police
forcefully dispersed a demonstration by several hundred opposition
supporters who had camped out in the capital for more than a week to
protest the results of presidential elections. The violent protests
left eight dead and more than 100 injured and prompted President Robert
Kocharian to declare a sweeping, 20-day state of emergency.
(AP, 3/1/08)(AP, 3/2/08)
2008 Mar 1, In Australia up to
300,000 people lined Sydney's streets to watch the Gay and Lesbian
Mardi Gras, as the largest gay pride march in the Asia Pacific region
marked its 30th anniversary.
(AP, 3/1/08)
2008 Mar 1, BHP Billiton,
Melbourne-based mining giant, said it plans to invest $975 million to
upgrade and expand its thermal coal mines in South Africa to sustain
coal exports amid soaring coal prices.
(Reuters, 3/3/08)
2008 Mar 1, Colombia's defense
minister said security forces killed Raul Reyes (59), a leading
commander of the FARC rebel group, in combat and air strikes in
neighboring Ecuador. Reyes was the nom de guerre of Luis Edgar Devia.
23 other rebels were also killed and a laptop computer was seized with
documents indicating a close relationship between the rebels and
Venezuela’s Pres. Chavez. Colombia later acknowledged that an
Ecuadorean was killed during the raid. It was later reported that a
computer memory stick was acquired in the raid that held the names,
aliases and identity numbers of 9,387 rebels, including some photos.
(AP, 3/1/08)(AP, 3/5/08)(Econ, 3/8/08, p.43)(AP,
3/24/08)(AP, 9/25/08)
2008 Mar 1, A violent storm
plagued parts of Europe and deaths rose to 10 after two people in
Poland were killed by falling objects because of hurricane-strength
winds. Germany reported 2 deaths, the Czech Rep. 2 deaths and 4 more in
Austria.
(AP, 3/2/08)
2008 Mar 1, In Iraq 2 separate
attacks on buses of Shiites killed five people and wounded 11. The US
military said it had killed six insurgents and detained 13 suspects in
the last 24 hours during operations against al-Qaida in Iraq in central
and northern Iraq.
(AP, 3/1/08)
2008 Mar 1, In Nepal some 1,300
makeshift bamboo huts were destroyed at the Goldhap refugee camp before
the blaze was brought under control. The fire left estimated 10,000
refugees without shelter.
(AP, 3/3/08)
2008 Mar 1, In Pakistan police
formally charged top Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud with
plotting the murder of Benazir Bhutto.
(AP, 3/1/08)
2008 Mar 1, Palestinians called
off peace talks with Israel after 33 Gazans, at least half of them
civilians, were killed in violence that escalated sharply during the
day. The death toll climbed as Israeli troops, backed by tanks and
aircraft, went after Palestinian militants who fired 40 rockets and
mortars at southern Israeli communities near Gaza. A total of 54
Palestinians, roughly half of them civilians, were killed in fighting,
the highest single-day death toll in more than seven years of violence.
Two Israeli soldiers also were killed.
(AP, 3/1/08)(AP, 3/2/08)
2008 Mar 1, In the Philippines a
bomb wounded two Filipino soldiers and four women at a bar near a
military camp on Jolo Island, where US troops were conducting
counterterrorism training.
(AP, 3/2/08)
2008 Mar 1, In Spain thousands of
pro-hunting demonstrators blowing bugles and accompanied by hunting
dogs, thronged a boulevard in central Madrid to protest a law
restricting the use of lead shot.
(AP, 3/1/08)
2008 Mar 1, At least 69 nomads and
nine soldiers were killed were killed in clashes with forces from the
ex-rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army in southern Sudan.
(AFP, 3/2/08)
2009 Mar 1, In eastern Afghanistan
a suicide car bomb blew up near US-led soldiers, wounding six civilians
outside Jalalabad. Attacks in Kandahar province left seven security
guards dead. The US-led coalition killed four alleged militants in
Kandahar.
(AFP, 3/1/09)
2009 Mar 1, Bangladeshi police
charged more than 1,000 border guards with murder and arson after a
bloody mutiny in the capital left as many as 148 people dead or
missing, most of them army officers.
(AP, 3/1/09)
2009 Mar 1, China's lunar
probe, the Chang'e-1, named for a moon goddess, ended its
16-month life with a planned crash into the moon.
(Reuters, 3/1/09)
2009 Mar 1, Scores of Tibetan
monks in southwestern China marched in protest over the banning of a
prayer service, the latest incident in an apparent increase in acts of
defiance against Chinese rule ahead of sensitive anniversaries.
(AP, 3/2/09)
2009 Mar 1, Germany rejected
appeals for a single multibillion euro (dollar) bailout of eastern
Europe, even after Hungry begged EU leaders not to let a new "Iron
Curtain" divide the continent into rich and poor.
(AP, 3/1/09)
2009 Mar 1, An adviser to Iran's
president demanded an apology from a team of visiting Hollywood actors
and movie industry officials, including Annette Bening, saying films
such as "300" and "The Wrestler" were "insulting" to Iranians. The film
"300," portrays the battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., in which a force
of 300 Spartans held off a massive Persian army at a mountain pass in
Greece for three days. It angered many Iranians for the way Persians
are depicted as decadent, sexually flamboyant and evil in contrast to
the noble Greeks.
(AP, 3/1/09)
2009 Mar 1, In Iraq about 2,000
Shiites staged marches to protest the results of provincial elections
in tense Diyala province.
(AP, 3/1/09)
2009 Mar 1, Israel's attorney
general notified PM Ehud Olmert that he planned to indict him on
suspicion of illicitly taking cash-stuffed envelopes from a
Jewish-American businessman, a sensational case that turned public
opinion so sharply against the Israeli leader that he was forced to
resign.
(AP, 3/1/09)
2009 Mar 1, Officials said the
Malaysian government will issue a new decree restoring a ban on
Christian publications using the word "Allah" to refer to God.
(AP, 3/1/09)
2009 Mar 1, Mexican federal police
made two arrests and confiscated weapons and marijuana in Tijuana,
across the US border from San Diego, after coming under attack by men
linked to a drug cartel.
(AP, 3/1/09)
2009 Mar 1, In northwest Pakistan
at least eight people were killed in two suspected US missile strikes
in South Waziristan near to the border with Afghanistan.
(AFP, 3/1/09)
2009 Mar 1, Tony Blair paid his
first visit to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip as envoy of international
peace brokers and said reconstruction aid after Israel's offensive
would not have a lasting effect without peace. Israel’s PM Ehud Olmert
threatened painful retaliation against Gaza militants for rockets still
hitting Israel, six weeks after its military halted an offensive that
was supposed to have stopped them for good.
(Reuters, 3/1/09)(AP, 3/1/09)
2009 Mar 1, Russia's ruling party
cemented its grip on elected posts with big victories in local
elections despite an economic crisis, but the opposition complained of
widespread cheating.
(Reuters, 3/2/09)
2009 Mar 1, In Spain Basque voters
chose a new government. Socialists scored big electoral gains at the
expense of nationalists who have held power there for nearly 30 years.
The nationalist coalition with 37 seats fell one seat short of the
needed majority.
(AP, 3/1/09)(AP, 3/2/09)(SFC, 3/2/09, p.A2)
2009 Mar 1, In Sudan Riek Machar,
the vice president of the southern Sudan government, said clashes last
week between militia and local government troops in Malakal killed at
least 57 people and wounded nearly 100.
(AP, 3/2/09)
2009 Mar 1, In Thailand Southeast
Asian leaders (ASEAN) vowed to push ahead with ambitious plans to
become a European Union-style economic community by 2015 despite
roadblocks posed by the global financial crisis and Myanmar's dismal
human rights record.
(AP, 3/1/09)
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