Important Events From This day in History March 1

 

1954 U.S.A. Hydrogen Bomb

1954 : US tests hydrogen bomb in the Pacific archipelago of Bikini, part of the Marshall Islands.

1961 U.S.A. Peace Corps

1961 : President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps as a new agency within the Department of State.

1968 U.S.A. Johnny Cash

1968 : Johnny Cash gets married to June Carter.

1940 U.S.A. Communist Party

1940 : The communist party of Dane County in Wisconsin was “all for” the Soviet-Finnish Peace Treaty. This political activist group believed that this treaty would help keep Americans out of what they considered to be the “Imperialist War” (World War II). This treaty was actually signed as of March 12th, 1940 between Finland and the U.S.S.R. The Finnish Nation was one of the supporters of Hitler Germany at the time. The U.S.S.R. (a.k.a. Soviet Union) fought on the side of the Allied Powers, which the United States after 1937.

1941 U.S.A. First FM Radio Station

1941 : Nashville, Tennessee becomes the home of the very first FM radio station in the country. While the FM band had less static and more range, it didn’t become popular until the early 1960s.

1950 United Kingdom Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs

1950 : Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs, 38, a civil servant from Harwell in Berkshire, a top nuclear scientist is jailed for fourteen years at the Old Bailey for spying for the Soviet Union where he pleaded guilty to four offences under the Official Secrets Act.

1954 U.S.A. Congressmen Shot

1954 : Five U.S. congressmen were shot and injured during a House session today when Puerto Rican spectators who yelled "Free Puerto Rico" fired shots into the United States Capitol building.

1962 U.S.A. Plane Crash Long Island

1962 : On this day, 95 people were killed in a plane crash that occurred along the South shore of Long Island, New York. The irony of it all is that this plane crash happened after the end of a long stretch of bad weather (rain and fog) that had continued for about a week-on a clear day.

1963 Canada Free Trade

1963 : John R. Bradfield, the President of the Canadian Institute of Metallurgy wanted to see freer trade to countries such as North America, Japan, Great Britain, and various European countries.

1966 UK To Go Decimal 1971

1966 : The Chancellor of the Exchequer, James Callaghan, has confirmed the decision to change over to decimal coinage in 1971.

1966 Space Venera 3

1966 : An unmanned Soviet probe called Venera 3 crashes on Venus in the pursuit of the conquest of space.

1971 United Kingdom Protest Industrial Relations Bill

1971 : Hundreds of thousands of workers possibly as many as 1.5 million people across Britain have taken part in an unofficial day of protest against the government's new industrial relations Bill.

1971 U.S. Capitol Bombed

1971 : The radical left organization Weather Underground / Weatherman bomb the United States Capitol on March 1, 1971. A bomb was placed in the senate wing causing $300,000 damage and no injuries.

1972 Syria Israeli Attacks

1972 : This was one of the significant days of attack by Israel against the Arabs. The Israeli army launched attacks against Arab Guerrilla camps that operated in southern Syria at this time. Fighting back and forth continued on at different times after this until the present day.

1973 Sudan Black September

1973 : The Palestinian terrorist group Black September storm the Saudi Arabian embassy in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, taking diplomats hostage. ( this was the same terrorist organization that murdered nine Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.

1978 Switzerland Charlie Chaplin

1978 : The coffin of Charlie Chaplin was stolen from a small, unguarded village cemetery in Switzerland.

1981 Northern Ireland Bobby Sands Hunger Strike

1981 : Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. During his hunger strike he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Great Britain. He died 65 days later.

1994 UK Fred West

1994 : Fred West is charged with two more murders following the discovery of additional human remains in the garden of his Gloucester home.

1997 Kentucky Flooding

1997 : Massive flooding occurred throughout the state of Kentucky with Thousands left homeless and more than 50 people were deaths.

2002 Space Water On Mars

2002 : The possibility of water still existing on Mars was made known. According to NASA, a spacecraft called Odyssey had detected it on this planet.

2005 U.S.A. BTK Serial Killer

2005 : Dennis Rader, accused of leading a double life as the BTK ( Bind, Torture and Kill, ) serial killer, was charged in Wichita, Kan., with 10 counts of first-degree murder between 1974 and 1991.. (Rader later pleaded guilty and received multiple life sentences.)