March 1 - Happy Birthday!

Famous people with your birthday
* Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and songwriter
* Burning Spear, Jamaican singer and musician
* Djimi Traoré, Malian footballer
* Glenn Miller, American bandleader
* Harry Belafonte, American musician and activist
* Naima Mora, American model
* Ralph Ellison, American writer
* Ron Howard, American actor and director
* Steven Barnes, American writer
* Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher

This day in history
* 1565 - The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
* 1642 - Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine) becomes the first incorporated city in the USA.
* 1692 - Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
* 1790 - The first United States census is authorized.
* 1872 - Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
* 1873 - E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York start production of the first practical typewriter.
* 1896 - Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo–Ethiopian War.
* 1896 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
* 1936 - Hoover Dam is completed.
* 1941 - W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the US
* 1949 - Ripley's Believe It Or Not! debuts on television
* 1961 - President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
* 1983 - Swatch introduces its first timepieces.
* 1992 - Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Yugoslavia.

Holidays and interesting facts
* Bosnia and Herzegovina - Independence Day
* Iceland - Beer day - This day in 1989 beer was allowed again
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