1 March
Notable Births
Wander Franco
b. 2001
Dominican baseball player (born 2001)
Sapnap
b. 2001
American YouTube personality (born 2001)
Ja'Marr Chase
b. 2000
American football player (born 2000)
Oswaldo Cabrera
b. 1999
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1999)
Justin Bieber
b. 1994
Canadian singer (born 1994)
Asanoyama Hiroki
b. 1994
Japanese sumo wrestler
Tyreek Hill
b. 1994
American football player (born 1994)
Maximilian Philipp
b. 1994
German footballer (born 1994)
Juan Bernat
b. 1993
Spanish footballer (born 1993)
Michael Conforto
b. 1993
American baseball player (born 1993)
Josh McEachran
b. 1993
English footballer (born 1993)
Victor Rask
b. 1993
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1993)
Jordan Veretout
b. 1993
French footballer (born 1993)
Édouard Mendy
b. 1992
Senegal international footballer (born 1992)
Tom Walsh (shot putter)
b. 1992
New Zealand shot putter
Joe Mantiply
b. 1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Tenille Dashwood
b. 1989
Australian professional wrestler
Daniella Monet
b. 1989
American actress, entrepreneur and singer (born 1989)
Emeraude Toubia
b. 1989
American actress (born 1989)
Harry Belafonte
b. 1927
American singer and actor (1927–2023)
Notable Deaths
Pat Ingoldsby
d. 2025
Irish poet and television presenter (1942–2025)
Joey Molland
d. 2025
English composer and rock guitarist (1947–2025)
Angie Stone
d. 2025
American singer and actress (1961–2025)
Iris Apfel
d. 2024
American interior designer and fashion icon (1921–2024)
Akira Toriyama
d. 2024
Japanese manga artist (1955–2024)
Just Fontaine
d. 2023
French footballer (1933–2023)
María Rubio
d. 2018
Mexican actress (1934–2018)
Minnie Miñoso
d. 2015
Cuban-American baseball player (1924–2015)
Alain Resnais
d. 2014
French film director (1922–2014)
Bonnie Franklin
d. 2013
American actress (1944–2013)
Andrew Breitbart
d. 2012
American journalist (1969–2012)
Kristian Digby
d. 2010
English television presenter and director
Peter Osgood
d. 2006
English footballer (1947–2006)
Jack Wild
d. 2006
English actor and singer (1952–2006)
Murder of Nonoi
d. 2006
2006 high-profile child rape and murder case in Singapore
Mian Ghulam Jilani
d. 2004
British Indian army officer and Pakistani general (1913–2004)
Archie Goodwin (comics)
d. 1998
American writer (1937–1998)
César Rodríguez (footballer, born 1920)
d. 1995
Spanish footballer and manager
Georges J. F. Köhler
d. 1995
German biologist (1946–1995)
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
d. 1792
Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792
On This Day in History
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2014
Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.
2014 Kunming attack
2008
The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections; as a result ten people are killed.
Police of Armenia
2007
Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise High School.
Tornado
2006
English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
English Wikipedia
2005
In Roper v. Simmons, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of any crime is unconstitutional.
Roper v. Simmons
2003
Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service moves to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
United States Customs Service
2002
U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
2002
The Envisat environmental satellite successfully launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket to reach an orbit of 800 km (500 mi) above the Earth, which was the then-largest payload at 10.5 m long and with a diameter of 4.57 m.
Envisat
2002
Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-109 to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
Space Shuttle Columbia
1998
Titanic becomes the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
Titanic (1997 film)
1992
Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1991
Uprisings against Saddam Hussein begin in Iraq, leading to the deaths of more than 25,000 people, mostly civilians.
1991 Iraqi uprisings
1990
Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Steve Jackson Games
1981
Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
Provisional Irish Republican Army
1974
Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Watergate scandal
1973
Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
Black September Organization
1971
President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
President of Pakistan
1966
Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
Venera 3
1966
The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
Ba'ath Party
1964
Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
Villarrica (volcano)