1 Mairch

The **1st o Mairch** is the 60t day o the year (61st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 305 days ti come.

## Events

* 1565 - The ceety o Rio de Janeiro is foondit.
* 1803 - Ohio becomes the 17t state o the Unitit States.
* 1809 - The Illinois territory is separatit frae the Indiana territory.
* 1815 - Napoleon returns tae Fraunce frae exile on Elba.
* 1867 - Nebraska becomes the 37t state o the Unitit States.
* 1872 - Yellowstone Naitional Pairk is creatit in the Northwastren Unitit States.
* 1896 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
* 1910 - An avalanche buries a Great Northern Railwey train in Wellington, Washington, Unitit States, killin 96 fowk.
* 1919 - The Mairch 1 Movement in Korea stairts.
* 1925 - The shillin becomes the currency o Austrick.
* 1936 - The Hoover Dam, on the mairch o Arizona an Californie, is completit.
* 1950 - Chiang Kai-shek declares the Republic o Cheenae on Taiwan.
* 1954 - The Unitit States tests a Hydrogen Bomb on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands.
* 1979 - In a referendum in Scotland, maist voters support devolution, but it is rejectit acause o a law turn-oot. A seemilar proposal in Wales is defeatit.
* 1989 - Beer becomes legal in Iceland.
* 1994 - Walvis Bay is gien tae Namibie bi Sooth Africae.
* 2000 - Tarja Halonen becomes the first female Preses o Finland.
* 2006 - The 1,000,000t airticle o the Inglis Wikipaedia is published, on Jordanhill Railway Station in Scotland.
* 2006 - The Senedd biggin, for the Welsh Assembly in Cairdiff, is opened bi Queen Elizabeth II.
* 2017 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Finland.
* 2018 - Carles Puigdemont ends his bid tae be reinstatit as Preses o Catalonie.
* 2020 - Chynges o leadership: Muhyiddin Yassin replaces Mahathir Mohamad as Prime meenister o Malaysie; Luis Lacalle Pou becomes Preses o Uruguay.
* 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Scotland's first recordit case o COVID-19 is confirmed.
* 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Armenie, the Czech Republic an the Dominican Republic record thair first cases o COVID-19.

## Births

* 40 - Martial, Roman writer (d. 102)
* 1445 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian penter (d. 1510)
* 1683 - Caroline o Ansbach, Queen Consort o Great Breetain an Ireland (d. 1737)
* 1810 - Frédéric Chopin, Pols componer (d. 1849)
* 1892 - Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (d. 1927)
* 1904 - Glenn Miller, American muisicker (d. 1944)
* 1910 - David Niven, Inglis actor (d. 1983)
* 1922 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime meenister o Israel (d. 1995) 
* 1927 - Harry Belafonte, American sangster an actor
* 1934 - Tommy McCulloch, Scots fitbawer (d. 2016)
* 1939 - Tommy Bryceland, Scots fitbawer (d. 2016)
* 1944 - Roger Daltrey, Inglis muisicker (The Who)
* 1947 - Alan Thicke, Canadian actor an sangwriter (d. 2016)
* 1949 - George Connelly, Scots fitbawer
* 1952 - Martin O'Neill, Northren Erse fitbaw manager
* 1954 - Ron Howard, American film director
* 1955 - Denis Mukwege, Congolese gynaecologist an Nobel Peace Prize laureate
* 1956 - Dalia Grybauskaite, Preses o Lithuanie
* 1959 - Nick Griffin, Inglis politeecian
* 1969 - Javier Bardem, Spainyie actor
* 1978 - Jensen Ackles, American actor an director
* 1983 - Lupita Nyong'o, Kenyan-Mexican actress
* 1987 - Kesha, American sangster
* 1993 - David Smith, Scots fitbawer
* 1994 - Justin Bieber, Canadian sangster
* 1996 - Ye Shiwen, Cheenese soummer

## Daiths
* 589 - Saunt Dauvit, Patron Saunt o Wales
* 1546 - George Wishart, Scots releegious reformer an Protestant mairtyr (b. 1513)
* 1672 - Marie Thérèse o Fraunce (b. 1667)
* 1792 - Leopold II, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
* 1911 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist (b. 1852)
* 1938 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian jurnalist an politeecian (b. 1863)
* 2014 - Alain Resnais, French film director (b. 1922)
* 2019 - Zhores Alferov, Belaroushie-Roushie pheesicist (b. 1930)

## Halidays

* Whuppity Scoorie
* St. David's Day, Naitional Day o Wales
* Mairch 1 Movement Day (Sooth Korea)
* Independence Day (Bosnie an Herzegovinae)
* Balearic Islands Day