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01 March, 2007
Tornadoes swarm across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths were at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
01 March, 2007
"Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots.
01 March, 2006
Tarja Halonen is inaugurated as President of Finland for the second and last time.
01 March, 2006
Queen Elizabeth II officially opens the new debating chamber for the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff, a milestone in devolution.
01 March, 2006
The first confirmed case of H5N1 bird flu virus in Switzerland, a dead swan on Lake Geneva, near the city of Geneva.
01 March, 2006
English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
01 March, 2004
Terry Nichols is convicted of state murder charges and being an accomplice to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
01 March, 2004
Punycode adopted by the national registrars of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
01 March, 2004
Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq.
01 March, 2003
Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
01 March, 2002
U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
01 March, 2002
The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 kilometers (500 miles) above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (9.5 tons).
01 March, 2002
The Peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced with the euro (€).
01 March, 2000
The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
01 March, 2000
Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
01 March, 1995
Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy.
01 March, 1992
Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Yugoslavia.
01 March, 1990
Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
01 March, 1989
The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
01 March, 1980
Voyager 1 probe confirms that Janus (moon of Saturn) exists.
01 March, 1975
Colour television transmissions begin in Australia.
01 March, 1974
Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
01 March, 1973
Black September terrorists storm the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan resulting in the 1973 Khartoum diplomatic assassinations.
01 March, 1972
The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province.
01 March, 1971
A bomb explodes in a mens room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
01 March, 1971
Pakistani President Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
01 March, 1966
Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planets surface.
01 March, 1966
The Baath Party takes power in Syria.
01 March, 1966
Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan confirms the decision to change over to decimal coinage.
01 March, 1962
American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York.
01 March, 1961
President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
01 March, 1961
Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
01 March, 1958
Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.
01 March, 1956
The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
01 March, 1955
Allen Fieldhouse at the University of Kansas hosts its first college basketball game.
01 March, 1954
Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
01 March, 1954
Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives. (See U.S. Capitol shooting incident (1954).)
01 March, 1953
Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke. He dies four days later.
01 March, 1950
Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by giving them top secret atomic bomb data.
01 March, 1949
Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
01 March, 1947
The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
01 March, 1946
The Bank of England is nationalised.
01 March, 1943
World War II: Battle of Bismarck Sea begins.
01 March, 1941
World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
01 March, 1941
W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S..
01 March, 1936
Hoover Dam is completed.
01 March, 1936
A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamens Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
01 March, 1932
The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
01 March, 1919
March 1st Movement begins in Korea.
01 March, 1917
U.S. government releases the plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.

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