March 1 in History

March 1 is the 60th day of the year. There are 306 days remaining until the end of the year.

March 1 is National Pig Day in the US.

• March 1886 - Alfred Spink established “The Sporting News,” the first newspaper dedicated to sports, in St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1565 – The city of Rio de Janeiro was founded.
• 1642 – Georgeana, Massachusetts (now York, Maine) became the first incorporated city in the United States.
• 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba appeared before magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts thus beginning the Salem Witch Trials.
• 1781 – The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
• 1790 – The first US census was authorized.
• 1803 – Ohio was admitted as the 17th US state.
• 1805 – Justice Samuel Chase was acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the US Senate.
• 1845 – President John Tyler signed a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
• 1847 – The state of Michigan formally abolished capital punishment.
• 1867 – Nebraska was admitted as the 37th US state.
• 1872 – Yellowstone National Park became the world's first national park.
• 1873 - E. Remington & Sons began production of the first practical typewriter.
• 1886 – The Anglo-Chinese, Singapore was founded by Bishop William Oldham. 
• 1893 – Nikola Tesla gave the first public demonstration of the radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1896 – Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity.
• 1901 – The  Australian Army was formed.
• 1912 – Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
• 1914 – The Republic of China joined the Universal Postal Union.
• 1932 – Charles Augustus Lindbergh III was kidnapped.
• 1936 – Hoover Dam was completed. 
• 1936 – A strike on board the SS California led to the demise of the International Seamen’s Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
• 1941 – W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) began operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the United States.
• 1946 – The Bank of England was nationalized.
• 1947 – The International Monetary Fund began financial operations.
• 1952 - Jerri Nielsen Fitzgerald, physician who performed a breast biopsy on herself while stationed in Antarctica in 1999. She died on June 23, 2009. 
• 1961 – Uganda became self-governing and held its first elections.
• 1961 – President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps.
• 1995 – Yahoo! was incorporated.
• 2003 – The International Criminal Court held its inaugural session in The Hague.
• 2006 – English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article.