This Day in History on 1st March
The historical events hold a lot of value for aspirants who are sitting for UPSC competitive exams including the IAS Exam.
On this page, we will list all historical events that occurred on 1st March. The students can refer to them while preparing for all competitive exams and banking exams.
Important Days
- Beer Day of Iceland.
- Heroes’ Day of Paraguay.
- National Pig Day of the United States.
- Remembrance Day of Marshall Islands.
- Self-injury Awareness Day.
- World Civil Defence Day.
World Civil Defence Day is celebrated on 1st March every year across the world to commemorate the entry into force of the ICDO Constitution as an intergovernmental organisation in 1972.
The day was created by the decision of the International Civil Defence Organisation (ICDO) General Assembly in 1990. Theme: “Together with civil defence against disasters”.
Important Events
1498: Vasco de Gama landed at what is now Mozambique on his way to India.
1562: In Vassy, France, Catholics massacred over 1,000 Huguenots. The event started the First War of Religion.
1640: Britain got permission to open a trade center in Madras.
1692: In Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged.
1775: The Purandhar Pact was signed between Nana Fadnavis and Britisher.
1803: Ohio became the 17th state of the United States.
1872: Yellowstone National Park, the world’s first national park, was established.
1893: Nikola Tesla demonstrated the first radio.
1907: Establishment of the Tata Iron and Steel Company at Jamshedpur.
1908: Tata Iron & Steel Company was the first steel company to be established in India
1919: Mahatma Gandhi announced to launch Satyagraha against Rowlatt Act.
1927: Ratnagiri Gandhiji met Savarkar and discussed it.
1946: The Bank of England is Nationalized
1947: The International Monetary Fund began its operations.
1948: Established of the Guwahati High Court.
1954: The United States conducted a second hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The blast was 600 times more powerful than the one at Hiroshima.
1962: Gaya University renamed as Magadh University.
1971: 5th General Election of India begins
1995: Yahoo is incorporated
1998: Titanic became the first film to gross more than $ 1 billion worldwide.
1998: South Indian singer M. S. Subbalakshmi was awarded the Bharat Ratna.
Birthday / Anniversary
1683: Tsangyang Gyatso, the 6th Dalai Lama.
1930: Rama Prasad Goenka, the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the RPG Group.
1944: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Chief Minister ofWest Bengal, was born
1951: Nitish Kumar, an Indian politician.
1953: M. K. Stalin, an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu.
1955: S. D. Shibulal, Co-founder of the Infosys.
1968: Salil Ankola, Indian cricketer, was born
1980: Shahid Afridi, a Pakistani international cricketer.
1983: Mary Kom, an Indian amateur boxer.
1994: Justin Bieber, a Canadian singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
Death / Death Anniversary
1989: Vasantdada Patil, an Indian politician.
1994: Manmohan Desai, a veteran Indian film producer, and director.
2011: Fateh Singh Rathore, an Indian tiger conservationist.