Friday March 1, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

March 1: Day of the Week

March 1, 2024 was the 61st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 305 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.

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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

March 1 Historical Event(s)

1562
23 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
1896
Battle of Adowa: an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo–Ethiopian War.
1910
The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
1936
A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen’s Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
1941
World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
1950
Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
1971
A bomb explodes in a men’s room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
1990
Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
2004
Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq.
2007
“Squatters” are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots.

Who were born on March 1?

1863
Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (d. 1930)
1865
Abe Iso, Japanese politician (d. 1949)
1920
Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
1943
Rashid Sunyaev, Russian physicist
1960
William Bennett, English musician (Whitehouse)
1974
Shane Harwood, Australian cricketer
1974
Stephen Davis, American football player
1978
Jensen Ackles, American actor
1982
Juan Manuel Ortiz, Spanish footballer
1989
Sonya Kitchell, American singer

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