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March 1 - the day in history
On this day in 1896, Ehtiopia defeated Italy at Adwa.
Today is March 1, the sixty first day of the year.
There are 304 days left in the year.
Highlights in history on this date:
1553 - League of Heidelberg is formed by Catholic and Protestant princes in Germany to prevent election of Philip of Spain as Holy Roman Emperor.
1692 - The Salem Witch trial begins in Massachusetts in United States.
1767 - King Charles III expels Roman Catholic Jesuits from Spain.
1790 - US Congress authorises the first census.
1799 - Turks and Russians complete conquest of Ionian Islands in Greece.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte lands in France, forcing King Louis XVIII to flee.
1870 - War ends between Paraguay and combined forces of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
1896 - Ethiopian forces defeat Italians at Adwa, northern Ethiopia, ending Italy's quest to create a substantial African colony.
1919 - Korean independence is declared in Seoul and 2 million people rally, leading to brutal Japanese repression.
1943 - Britain's Royal Air Force begins systematic bombing of European railway systems in World War II.
1954 - First conference of Organization of American States opens in Caracas, Venezuela; Puerto Rican nationalists open fire in the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen.
1961 - US President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1966 - Soviet Union lands one-ton spacecraft on planet Venus after three and one-half month flight.
1973 - Palestinian terrorists invade diplomatic reception in Khartoum, Sudan, and capture five diplomats.
1981 - Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he dies 65 days later.
1986 - More exiles return to Philippines to support fledgling government of new President Corazon Aquino.
1989 - UN General Assembly approves $416 million for U.N.'s one-year plan to free Namibia from 74 years of South African rule.
1990 - Luis Lacalle is sworn in as second president of Uruguay after the restoration of democracy.
1991 - Colombia's third largest rebel group, the Popular Liberation Army, formally lays down its arms.
1992 - Muslims and Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina vote for independence from Yugoslavia, enraging Serb nationalists.
1993 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin closes the occupied Gaza Strip "for a number of days" after a Gaza Palestinian stabs to death two Israelis and wounds nine others.
1994 - Israel releases more than 500 Palestinian prisoners to coax the PLO back to peace talks.
1996 - The United States approves a visa for Irish Republican Army political leader Gerry Adams.
1999 - Rwandan Hutu rebels, claiming they oppose American and British support of the Tutsi government in Rwanda, abduct eight foreign tourists from camps in the Ugandan rain forest and hack them to death.
2001 - Seven foreign oil workers kidnapped in October in the Ecuadorean jungle are freed.
2002 - U.S. space shuttle Columbia carries out a mission to repair and refurbish the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope, so that the observatory would have enough power to operate fully for the rest of its projected 20-year life.
2003 - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described planner and organizer of the September 11 attacks is captured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Today's Birthdays:
Frederic Chopin, Polish romantic pianist and composer (1810-1849)
Giles Lytton Strachey, English author (1880-1932)
Yitzhak Rabin, former Israeli prime minister (1922-1995)
Harry Belafonte, U.S. singer/actor (1927--)
Dirk Benedict, U.S. actor/director (1945--)
Ron Howard, U.S. director/actor (1954--)
