Historical events on March 1
MARCH 1, 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.
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan
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MARCH 1, 1896
Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
The Battle of Adwa was the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. The Ethiopian army defeated an invading Italian and Eritrean
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MARCH 1, 1805
Samuel Chase, the only Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to be impeached, was acquitted by the Senate.
Samuel Chase was a Founding Father of the United States, signer of the Continental Association and United States Declaration of Independence as
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MARCH 1, 1562
An attempt by François, 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.
François de Lorraine, 2nd Duke of Guise, 1st Prince of Joinville, and 1st Duke of Aumale, was a French general and statesman.
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MARCH 1, 1936
Hoover Dam, straddling the Arizona–Nevada border on the Colorado River, was completed.
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states
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MARCH 1, 1944
World War II: American and Australian troops won the Battle of Sio against Japanese forces as part of the New Guinea campaign.
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all
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MARCH 1, 1992
A Bosnian-Serb wedding procession was attacked in Sarajevo, resulting in what is widely considered the first casualty of the Bosnian War.
The Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, often referred to as Bosnian Serbs or Herzegovinian Serbs, are native and one of the three
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MARCH 1, 1872
Yellowstone National Park (bison pictured), located mostly in the present-day U.S. state of Wyoming, was established by President Ulysses S. Grant.
Yellowstone National Park is a national park of the United States located in the northwest corner of Wyoming, with small portions extending
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MARCH 1, 1870
Paraguayan War: Marshal Francisco Solano López died at the Battle of Cerro Corá.
The Paraguayan War, also known as the War of the Triple Alliance, was a South American war that lasted from 1864 to
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MARCH 1, 1896
French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered the principle of radioactive decay when he exposed photographic plates to uranium salts.
Antoine Henri Becquerel was a French physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie Curie and Pierre Curie for his discovery of radioactivity.
MARCH 1, 1869
The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (pictured) finished his design of the first periodic table.
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist known for formulating the periodic law and creating a version of the periodic table of
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MARCH 1, 1921
The Kronstadt rebellion began following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in Russia with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.
The Kronstadt rebellion was a 1921 insurrection of Soviet sailors, naval infantry, and civilians against the Bolshevik government in the Russian port
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