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March 1
(Redirected from 1 March)
March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). There are 305 days remaining.
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Events
up to 17th century
18th century
19th century
1800s-1840s
1850s-1880s
1890s
20th century
1900s-1910s
1920s-1930s
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1920 - Hungarian Admiral and statesman Miklós Horthy becomes the Regent of Hungary
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1921 - the city Kiryu, located in Gunma, Japan, is founded.
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1923 - USS Connecticut decommissioned
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1924 - Diana Vreeland, fashion editor and columnist, marries Thomas Reed Vreeland at St. Thomas's church in New York
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1925 - Earthquake in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada
- 1925 - Edgar Varčse's Intégrales is premiered in New York City
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1931 - Henry Pu Yi, former Emperor of China, is proclaimed Emperor of the puppet state of Manchukuo by Japan.
- 1931 - USS Arizona (BB-39) placed back in full commission after a refit
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1932 - The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
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1933 - Kyriakos Varvaressos becomes Deputy Governor to the Bank of Greece
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1934 - John H. Russell, Jr is appointed Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
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1935 - Jamil al-Midfai becomes Prime minister of Iraq for the second time
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1936 - Hoover Dam is completed.
1940s
1950s
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1950 - West South Baptist Church in Bestridge, Nebraska blows up.
- 1950 - Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by giving them top secrete atomic bomb data.
- 1950 - acting Chinese President Li Tsung-jen ends his term in office
- 1950 - Chiang Kai-shek resumes his duties as Chinese President after moving his government to Taipei, Taiwan
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1951 - the city Yaizu, located in Shizuoka, Japan, is founded
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1953 - Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke. He dies four days later
- 1953 - Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg made the deputy constable and lieutenant governor of Windsor Castle
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1954 - Nuclear testing: Officials announce that an American hydrogen bomb test had been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1954 - Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
- 1954 - the city Namerikawa, located in Toyama, Japan is founded
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1956 - the International Air Transport Association finalises a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization
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1957 - U Nu becomes Prime Minister of Burma
- 1957 - Arturo Lezama becomes President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay
- 1957 - Sud Aviation forms from a merger between SNCASE and SNCASO
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1958 - Dr Arturo Frondizi becomes President of Argentina
- 1958 - Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, appointed Pro-Perfect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia
- 1959 - Japanese cities Uji, Kyoto and Muroto, Kocki are founded
1960s
1960-1967
1968-1969
1970s
1980s
1990s
1990-1994
1995-1999
21st century
2000-2002
2003
2004
- 2004 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former President of Haiti, announces that his resignation of February 29 was forced, and that he was forced to leave the country by American soldiers.
- 2004 - Terry Nichols convicted of state murder charges and accomplice to the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh has his trial started in McAlester, Oklahoma
- 2004 - Britney Spears releasesIn The Zone single, "Toxic"
- 2004 - The Price is Right airs its 6,000 episode
- 2004 - Vladimir Putin nominates Mikhail Fradkov for the position as prime minister of Russia.
- 2004 - the Bush Administration officially admits to the implementation of a Continuity of Operations plan following the September 11, 2001 attacks
- 2004 - notorious convicted criminal Marc Dutroux starts trial in Belgium
- 2004 - Tauranga, New Zealand officially becomes a city, for the second time
- 2004 - Gerry Doherty begins office as General Secretary for the trade union the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
- 2004 - Yahoo! announces that it will practice paid inclusion for its search service.
- 2004 - SCO Group announces it has reached a license agreement with EV1Servers.net , which allows EV1Servers to use some of SCO's "intellectual property". See also SCO v. IBM
- 2004 - Punycode adopted by the national registrars of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- 2004 - Canadian Jean Pelletier fired as head of VIA Rail
- 2004 - Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq
- 2004 - the 6 towns on the Japanese island of Tsushima are unified to create Tsushima city
See also Afghanistan 2003 and Afghanistan 2004 (part of the Timeline of Afghan history)
Births
up to 18th century
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1104/5 - Alfonso VII, king of Castile (d. 1157)
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1445 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (d. 1510)
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1456 - Wadysaw Jagielloczyk , king of Bohemia and Hungary, (d. 1516)
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1474 - Angela Merici, Italian nun (d. 1540)
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1528 - Albrecht V von Wittelsbach , duke of Bavaria
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1610 - Johann Schup (Schuppius), poet and historian
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1630 - Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere , Flemish painter
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1683 - Caroline of Brandenburg-Amsbach , (d. 1737), wife of George II
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1709 - Josef Gurecky , composer
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1711 - Peregrinus Pogl , composer
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1760 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French revolutionary (suicide) (d. 1794)
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1769 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (d. 1796)
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1771 - Armand-Emmanuel Trial , composer
19th century
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1807 - Wilford Woodruff, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1898)
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1810 - Frédéric Chopin, French composer and pianist, (d. 1849)
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1817 - Giovanni Dupre , sculptor
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1821 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (d. 1896)
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1828 - Vittorio Bersezio , Italian playwright
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1837 - William Dean Howells, American writer, historian, editor, politician, (d. 1920)
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1852 - Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (d. 1923)
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1858 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1918)
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1860 - Joe Natus , musician
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1865 - Abe Iso, Japanese politician (d. 1949)
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1871 - Ben Harney, American composer and ragtime pianist (d. 1938)
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1876 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian IOC president, (d. 1942)
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1879 - Alexandur Stamboliyski , Bulgarian politician (d. 1923)
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1880 - Giles Lytton Strachey British writer and biographer (d. 1932)
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1886 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter, graphic artist, and poet, (d. 1980)
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1892 - Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (d. 1927)
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1893 - Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (d. 1968)
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1896 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (d. 1960)
20th century
1900s-1910s
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1901 - Pietro Spiggia, Italian poet
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1904 - Glenn Miller, American bandleader, (d. 1944)
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1906 - Phạm Văn Đồng, Prime Minister of North Vietnam (d. 2000)
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1909 - David Niven, English actor, (d. 1983)
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1911 - Harry Golombek , English chess grandmaster (d. 1995)
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1914 - Ralph Ellison, American writer, (d. 1994)
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1917 - Robert Lowell, American poet, (d. 1977)
- 1917 - Harry Caray, American sports broadcaster (d. 1998)
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1918 - Joao Goulart, president of Brazil (1961-March 31, 1964) (d. 1976)
- 1918 - Roger Delgado, British actor (d. 1973)
1920s
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1920 - William Dean Howells, American writer (d. 1920)
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1921 - Jack Clayton , film director
- 1921 - Richard Wilbur, American poet
- 1921 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, tenth bishop (seventh archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York (d. 1983)
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1922 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1995)
- 1922 - William Gaines, American publisher, founder of MAD Magazine, (d. 1992)
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1923 - Kuczka Péter, Hungarian writer, poet and Science Fiction editor (d. 1999)
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1924 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (d. 1993)
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1926 - Alvin "Pete" Rozelle, commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) (d. 1996)
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1927 - Harry Belafonte, American musician and actor
- 1927 - Robert Bork, American law professor
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1928 - Jacques Rivette, French director
- 1928 - Dr. Seymour Papert, South African mathematician, artificial intelligence researcher
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1929 - Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident, (d. 1978)
1930s-1950s
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1933 - Jakob Maria Mierscheid, fictitious politician in the German Bundestag since 1983
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1935 - Robert Conrad, American actor
- 1935 - Judith Rossner , writer
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1937 - Jed Allan, American actor
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1939 - Warren Davis, The Monotones
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1942 - Richard Bowman Myers, General of the United States Air Force, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
- 1942 - Gabriel Hudon , Canadian terrorist
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1943 - Gil Amelio, American CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple Computer and venture capitalist
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1944 - Roger Daltrey, English rock musician (The Who)
- 1944 - Mike D'Abo, rock vocalist of band Mannfred Mann
- 1944 - John Breaux, United States Senator from Louisiana
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1945 - Dirk Benedict, American movie and television actor
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1946 - Tony Ashton , British rock musician
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1948 - Winston Rodney, aka Burning Spear, Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician
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1952 - Steven Barnes, science fiction writer
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1953 - Richard Bruton, Irish Fine Gael politician and economist
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1954 - Ron Howard, American actor, director, producer
- 1954 - Catherine Bach, American actress
1960s-1970s
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1963 - Dan Michaels, producer, saxophonist, member of the rock band The Choir and also The Swirling Eddies, owner of Galaxy21 Music .
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1964 - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, suspected military head of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda (his birth date is also reported to be April 14, 1965)
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1965 - Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey
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1967 - Stuart Conquest , English chess player
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1967 - Aron Winter, Dutch soccer player
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1969 - Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
- 1969 - Rob Janssen , baseball player
- 1969 - Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh drummer with the band Super Furry Animals
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1971 - Tyler Hamilton, American cyclist
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1973 - Ryan Peake, guitarist with the band Nickelback
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1974 - Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor
Deaths
up to 19th century
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1244 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, eldest, illegitimate son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
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1383 - Amadeus VI of Savoy, Count of Savoy (b. 1334)
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1546 - George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (b 1513)
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1620 - Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (b. 1567)
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1633 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)
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1643 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian keyboard composer. (b. 1583)
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1661 - Richard Zouch, English jurist (b. 1590)
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1697 - Francesco Redi, Italian physician (b. 1626)
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1734 - Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
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1768 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
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1792 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
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1862 - Peter Barlow, English mathematician (b. 1776)
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1879 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
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1884 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
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1898 - George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (b. 1825)
20th century
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1911 - J. H. van 't Hoff, Dutch physical and organic chemist, the winner of the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1852)
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1912 - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer, best remembered for his work with Gilbert & Sullivan. (b. 1847)
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1914 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)
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1920 - John H. Bankhead, United States Senator (b. 1842)
- 1920 - Joseph Trumpeldor, early Zionist activist (b. 1880)
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1922 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish football player (b. 1892)
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1924 - Louise-Marie Amélie, daughter of Leopold II of Belgium, wife of Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1858)
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1932 - Frank Teschemacher, jazz clarinetist and alto-saxophonist
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1938 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, dramatist, daredevil, war hero and politician (b. 1863)
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1945 - Umenosuke Bessho , Japanese writer (b. 1871)
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1966 - Fritz Houtermans, physicist (b. 1903)
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1970 - Lucille Hegamin, U.S. singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
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1974 - Bobby Timmons, jazz pianist (b. 1935)
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1979 - Mustafa Barzani, leader of Kurdistan Democratic Party (b. 1903)
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1984 - Jackie Coogan, actor (b. 1914)
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1988 - Joe Besser, member of the Three Stooges (b. 1907)
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1991 - Edwin Herbert Land, inventor (b. 1909)
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1995 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist, anchor, and director of ORTV (b. 1956)
21st century
Holidays and observances
Seasons beginning March 1
In Denmark, spring begins on March 1, while in Australia autumn begins on March 1.
Year Beginning March 1
If one begins each year on March 1, then each date will have the same day number in this year, regardless of whether it is a leap year or not (e.g. December 25 is always day 300). Also the months follow a regular 5-month cycle of 153 days, till the end of February. This can be seen by listing the number of days in the months thus:
Mar 31 Aug 31 Jan 31
Apr 30 Sep 30 Feb 28/29
May 31 Oct 31
Jun 30 Nov 30
Jul 31 Dec 31
This regularity is sometimes used in calendar calculations.
February 28 - February 29 - (February 30) - March 2 - February 1 - April 1 -- listing of all days
Last updated: 02-08-2005 10:10:49
Last updated: 05-03-2005 17:50:55
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