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Notable anniversaries in history for today: March 1
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Jean de Merode AKA Marie-Louise B Courtenay; Princess of Netherlands.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Donald "Deke" Kent Slayton in Sparta, Wisconsin, USA; Major US Air Force/astronaut (Apollo 18).
- 100th: 1924 - Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD is lifted.
- 100th: 1924 - Louise-Marie Amélie, princess of Belgium, dies at age 66.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Jim "Ed" Brown in Sparkman, Arkansas, USA; country singer (Nashville on the Road).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Joan Hackett in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Will Penny, One Stone Pony).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Riet [M J J] Roosen-van Pelt; Dutch second Chamber member (CDA).
- 90th: 1934 - Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria.
- 90th: 1934 - Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Dirk Benedict in Helena, Montana, USA; actor (The A-Team, Battlestar Galactica).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of John B Breaux; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Louisiana, 1972-88).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of John Napier in London, England; set designer (Royal Shakespeare Company).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Mike D'Abo; rock vocalist (Manfred Mann - "Mighty Quinn").
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Roger Daltrey in Hammersmith, London, England; rocker/actor/producer (The Who - "Tommy").
- 80th: 1944 - Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns.
- 80th: 1944 - German submarine U-358 sinks in the Atlantic Ocean.
- 70th: 1954 - Four Puerto Ricans open fire in US House of Representatives injuring five Representatives.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Catherine Bach in Warren, Ohio, USA; actress (Daisy Duke - The Dukes of Hazzard).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Janis Gill in Torrance, California, USA; singer (Sweethearts of Rodeo - "Midnight Girl").
- 70th: 1954 - Rebellion during visit of President Naguib in Khartoum, Sudan, 30 die.
- 70th: 1954 - Ted Williams fractures collarbone in first game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War.
- 70th: 1954 - US explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Jennifer McCarter in Sevierville, Tennessee, USA; singer (McCarter - "The Gift").
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Mark-Paul Gosselaar; actor (Zack - Saved by the Bell).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Stephen Davis; running back (Washington Redskins).
- 50th: 1974 - Ian and Greg Chappell make 264 partnership versus New Zealand cricket at Wellington.
- 50th: 1974 - Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Azuren Holte), dies at age 53.
- 50th: 1974 - Watergate grand jury indicts seven US Presidential aides.
- 40th: 1984 - Jackie Coogan, American actor (Uncle Fester - Addams Family), dies at age 69 (born 1914).
- 40th: 1984 - NASA launches Landsat-D Prime (Landsat 5) to thematic map the Earth.
- 40th: 1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk.
- 30th: 1994 - Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as President of Finland.
- 30th: 1994 - The grunge rock band Nirvana plays its final show in Munich, Germany.
- 30th: 1994 - US Senate rejects a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
- 30th: 1994 - Walter Kent, US composer ("I'll Be Home for Christmas"), dies at age 82.
- 30th: 1994 - Former banker Leonard Coleman is elected National League president replacing Bill White.
- 30th: 1994 - A lone terrorist kills Ari Halberstam during an attack on 14 Jewish students on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City.
- 30th: 1994 - South Africa cedes Walvis Bay and 12 offshore islands to Namibian sovereignty.
- 30th: 1994 - Mary Ellen Withrow begins her term of office as Treasurer of the United States, serving under President Bill Clinton.
- 30th: 1994 - Georgia joins the Commonwealth of Independent States.
- 25th: 1999 - One of four bombs detonated in Lusaka, Zambia, destroys the Angolan Embassy.
- 25th: 1999 - Rwandan Hutu rebels kill and hack to pieces eight foreign tourists at the Buhoma homestead, Uganda.
- 25th: 1999 - The Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines comes into force.
- 15th: 2009 - Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 1 crashes into the moon in a controlled collision at the end of a 16-month moon-mapping mission.
- 15th: 2009 - In Victoria, British Columbia, Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg wins her third Canadian women's curling Tournament of Hearts title with an 8-5 victory over Marla Mallett of B.C.
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