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1BCEÂ Â Â Â Â Â
Mar 1, Start of the revised Julian calendar in Rome.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
293Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Roman emperor
Maximianus introduced tetrarchy.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
492Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, St. Felix III ended
his reign as Catholic Pope.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
492Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, St Gelasius I began
his reign as Catholic Pope (492-496).
   (PTA, 1980, p.98)(SC, 3/1/02)
589Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Saint David
(b.~500), Welsh Bishop, died about this time. He was later regarded
as a saint and as the patron saint of Wales. The Annales Cambriae
has his death at 601, which would move his birth date forward. His
mother was Non (also Nonna or Nonnita), according to Christian
tradition.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_David)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Non)
705Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, John VII began his
reign as Catholic Pope.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
743Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Slave export by
Christians to heathen areas was prohibited.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
772Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Po Tjiu-I (Bai
Juyi), Chinese poet (d.846), Governor of Hang-tsjow, was born. His
work included the narrative poem "Song of the Pipa," which protested
the social evils of his day.
   (WSJ, 3/17/00, p.W2)(SC, 3/1/02)
918Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Balderik became
bishop of Utrecht.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
965Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Leo VIII, Italian
(anti-)Pope (963-65), died.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1131Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Stephen II, King of
Hungary (1116-31), died.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1260Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Hulagu Khan,
grandson of Genghis, conquered Damascus.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1382Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, French Maillotin
rose up against taxes.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1420Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Pope Martinus I
called for a crusade against the Hussieten (Bohemia).
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1434Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Jacoba of Bavaria
married Frank van Borselen.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1501Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Lithuania and Livonia
established a 10-year union for protection against Russia.
   (LHC, 3/1/03)
1581Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Warsaw
government accepted the statutes of the Lithuanian high tribunal.
   (LHC, 3/1/03)
1642Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Georgeana (York),
Maine, became the first American city to incorporate.
   (HN, 3/1/98)(SC, 3/1/02)
1456Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Wladyslaw Jagiello,
king of Bohemia (1471-1516), Hungary (1490-1516), was born.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1562Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Blood bath at
Vassy; General de Guise allowed the murder of 1200 Huguenots. The
Guises massacred more than 60 Huguenots at a Protestant service at
Vassy and sparked off The Wars of Religion in France.
   (TL-MB, 1988, p.20)(SC, 3/1/02)
1579Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Sir Francis Drake
waylaid a Spanish treasure galleon, the Nuestra Senora de la
Concepcion, off the coast of Panama.
   (ON, 7/03, p.7)
1633Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, George Herbert
(b.1593), Welsh-born priest and poet, died. In 2013 John Drury
authored “Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert.”
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert)(Econ, 8/31/13, p.72)
1692 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Sarah Goode, Sarah
Osborne and Tituba were arrested for the supposed practice of
witchcraft in Salem, Mass.
   (HN, 3/1/98)
1565Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Spanish occupier
Estacio de Sá founded Rio de Janeiro. He destroyed the existing
French colony.
   (TL-MB, 1988, p.21)(SC, 3/1/02)
1587Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Peter Wentworth,
English parliament leader, was confined in London Tower. [see Mar
12]
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1591Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Pope Gregory XIV
threatened to excommunicate French king Henri IV.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1619Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Thomas Campion
(53), English physician, composer, poet (Poemata), died.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1634Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Battle at Smolensk;
Polish King Wladyslaw IV beat the Russians. [see Feb 19]
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1643Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Girolamo
Frescobaldi (59), Italian composer, organist, died.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1711Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, "The Spectator"
began publishing in London.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1776Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, French minister
Charles Gravier advised his Spanish counterpart to support the
American rebels against the English.
   (HN, 3/1/99)
1780 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Pennsylvania
became the first U.S. state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only).
It was followed by Connecticut and Rhode Island in 1784, New York in
1785, and New Jersey in 1786. Massachusetts abolished slavery
through a judicial decision in 1783.
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(http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsmss/umich-wcl-M-230dau?view=text)
1781Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The US Continental
Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, following
ratification by Maryland. It required the unanimous consent of all
states for any changes.
   (AP, 3/1/08)(Economist, 4/30/17, p.23)
1784Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, E. Kidner opened
the 1st cooking school in Great Britain.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1785Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Philadelphia
Society for the Promotion of Agriculture was organized.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1790Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, President
Washington signed a measure authorizing the first US Census. The
Connecticut Compromise was a proposal for two houses in the
legislature-one based on equal representation for each state, the
other for population-based representation-that resolved the dispute
between large and small states at the Constitutional Convention.
Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman's proposal led to the first
nationwide census in 1790. The population was determined to be
3,929,625, which included 697,624 slaves and 59,557 free blacks. The
most populous state was Virginia, with 747,610 people and the most
populous city was Philadelphia with 42,444 inhabitants. The average
cost of this year’s census was 1.13 cents per person.
   (HNQ, 7/13/01)(AP,
3/1/08)(http://www.genealogybranches.com/censuscosts.html)
1792Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, US Presidential
Succession Act was passed. [see Feb 21]
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1796Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The 1st National
Meeting was held in The Hague.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1803 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Ohio became the
17th US state and was given a grant of land to support public
education.
   (HN, 3/1/98)(Econ, 4/15/17, p.22)
1808Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In France, Napoleon
created an imperial nobility.
   (HN, 3/1/99)
1809Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Embargo Act of 1807
was repealed and the Non-Intercourse Act signed.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1810Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Frederic Chopin
(d.1849), Polish composer and pianist, was born. He studied in
Poland but spent most of his adult life in Paris. He met George Sand
in Paris in 1838 and they were together until 1847. His works
include the Waltz #2 in C# Minor (1835).
   (BAAC PN, Chambers, 1/8/96) (HN, 3/1/98)
1811Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Egypt the
Ottoman viceroy Muhammad Ali Pasha massacred the Mameluke leaders of
Egypt for plotting against him. He had invited them to a banquet at
the citadel of Cairo.
   (PCh, 1992, p.373)(SC, 3/1/02)
1815Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In France,
returning from Elba, Napoleon landed at Cannes with a force of 1,
500 men and marched on Paris.
   (HN, 3/1/99)
1815Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Sunday observance
in Netherlands was regulated by law.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1837Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, William Dean
Howells (d.1920), US author, critic and editor, was born. He edited
the work of William James at the Atlantic Monthly. "We are creatures
of the moment; we live from one little space to another; and only
one interest at a time fills these." "If we like a man's dream, we
call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a
crank."
   (WUD, 1994, p.689)(SFEC, 11/3/96, BR p.10)(AP,
3/3/98)(AP, 11/13/98)(HN, 3/1/01)
1841 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Blanche K. Bruce,
senator of Mississippi 1875-1881, was born in Farmville, Va.Â
   (HN, 3/1/98)(SC, 3/1/02)
1841Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, John Quincy Adams
(74), former US president, concluded his defense of "the Mendi
people," a group of Africans who had rebelled and killed the crew of
the slave ship Amistad, while enroute from Cuba to Haiti. They faced
mutiny charges upon landing on Long Island, but Adams won their
acquittal before the Supreme Court. In thanks they bestowed to him
an 1838 English Bible. In 1996 the Bible was stolen from the Adams
National Historic Site in Quincy, Mass.
  Â
(http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/amistad/adamsarg.html)(WSJ,
1/3/97, p.A7)
1845Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, President Tyler
signed a congressional resolution to annex the Republic of Texas.
   (AP, 3/1/98)
1847Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, James Reed reached
Donner Lake and found his two children alive along with 15 other
survivors.
   (ON, SC, p.7)
1847Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Michigan became the
1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty
(except for treason against the state).
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1848Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Augustus
Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor and designer of the 1907 $20 gold piece,
was born.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1854Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The SS City of
Glasgow, a steamship of the Inman Line, left Liverpool harbor with
480 passengers and was never seen again.
   (SC, 3/1/02)(WSJ, 7/1/03, p.D8)
1859Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The present seal of
San Francisco was adopted (its 2nd).
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1860 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Suzanna Salter,
first female mayor, was born.Â
   (HN, 3/1/98)
1864Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Rebecca Lee
(1831-1895) became the first black woman to receive an American
medical degree, from the New England Female Medical College in
Boston.
   (AP,
3/1/00)(www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_73.html)
1864Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Louis Ducos du
Hauron patented a movie machine that was never built.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1865Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Anna Paulowna
Romanova (70), great monarch of Russia, died.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1866Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Paraguayan canoes
sank 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1867Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Most of Nebraska
became the 37th state. It was expanded later.
   (AP, 3/1/98)(SC, 3/1/02)
1869Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Postage stamps
showing scenes were issued for 1st time.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1869Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Alphonse MLP de
Lamartine (78), French poet (History of Girondins), died.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1870Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Francisco S. Lopez
(43), President of Paraguay (1862-70), was killed in the War of the
Triple alliance.
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(http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/L/Lopez-Fr.html)
1871Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Germans paraded
down the Champs-Elysses, Paris, France during the Franco-Prussian
War.
   (HN, 3/1/99)(WSJ, 3/14/95, p.A-16)
1871Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, J. Milton Turner
was named minister to Liberia.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1872Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, President Ulysses
S. Grant signed a measure creating Yellowstone National Park (Idaho,
Montana, Wyoming). The act of Congress creating Yellowstone National
Park was based on a report from an expedition led by Ferdinand
Hayden. The 2.2 million-acre preserve was the first step in a
national park system. Nathaniel Pitt Langford (39) was appointed the
1st Superintendent.
   (SFC, 5/19/96, Z1, p.2)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R34)(ON,
11/02, p.4)(PCh, 1992, p.526)(AP, 3/1/08)
1872Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Doc Holliday
received his Doctor of Dental Surgery.
   (MesWP)
1873Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, E. Remington and
Sons (1816–1896), a firearms manufacturer founded in 1816 by
Eliphalet Remington in Ilion, New York, started manufacturing the
first commercial typewriter. James Densmore and George Yost
contracted Remington to build 1,000 machines designed by Christopher
Latham Sholes.
  Â
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Remington_and_Sons)(ON, 12/10, p.8)
1875 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Congress passed
the Civil Rights Act, which was invalidated by the Supreme Court in
1883.
   (HN, 3/1/98)
1876Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Guernsey Cattle
Club formed in Farmington, CT.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1879Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Library of Hawaii
was founded.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1880Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Lytton Strachey
(d.1932), English biographer, critic (Benson Medal 1923), was born.
"Uninterpreted truth is as useless as buried gold."Â
   (AP, 3/25/00)(SC, 3/1/02)
1890Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, 1st US edition of
Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) was published.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1893Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The US Diplomatic
Appropriation Act authorized the rank of ambassador.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1896Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Battle of Adowa
(Adwa, Adua) began in Ethiopia between the 80,000 forces of Negus
Menelik, Emperor Menelik II, and 18-20,000 Italian troops. The
Italians suffered a crushing defeat with some 6,000 killed. Menalik
II and his wife Taitu led Ethiopia to independence from Italy. In
2000 Haile Gerima made a 90 minute documentary of the event, "Adwa:
An African Victory."
   (WSJ, 5/16/96, p.A-12)(AP, 3/1/98)(SFC, 5/15/00,
p.D3)(Econ, 2/26/11, p.89)(ON, 2/11, p.9)
1901Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, At the Pan American
Exposition in Buffalo, NY, the electric current was turned on at the
Agricultural building by Henry Rustin, chief of the Mechanical and
Electricity Bureau, and the 4000 lamps on the exterior of the
building blazed into radiant beauty. The Exposition, which opened
informally on May 1, was held on a 342 acre site between Delaware
Park Lake on the south, the New York Central railroad tracks on the
north, Delaware Avenue on the east, and Elmwood Avenue on the west.
The fair featured the latest technologies, including electricity and
the baby incubator building, and attracted nearly 8 million people.
A 400-foot electric tower was the centerpiece.
   (WSJ, 6/5/01,
p.A23)(http://panam1901.bfn.org/thisday/marcharchives.html)
1903Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Leon Bismarck "Bix"
Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist (In a Mist), was born in Iowa. [see Mar
10]
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1904 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Glenn Miller
(d.1944), big band leader of the 1930s and 1940s, was born in
Clarinda, Iowa.
   (AP, 3/1/04)
1907 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, There were only
15,000 Jews left in Odessa, Russia. The attacks on the Jews
continued as more and more evacuated.
   (HN, 3/1/98)
1909Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, David Niven, actor
(Casino Royale, Eye of the Devil), was born in Kirriemuir Angus,
Scotland.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1909Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, 1st US university
school of nursing established, University of Minnesota.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1910Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, An avalanche at
Wellington, Wa., pushed two Great Northern trains carrying 96 people
over a ledge at Stevens Pass.
   (SSFC, 3/1/09, p.C10)
1911 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Jose Ordonez was
elected the president of Uruguay.
   (HN, 3/1/98)
1912 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Albert Berry
completed the first in-flight parachute jump, from a Benoist plane
over Kinlock Field in St. Louis.
   (HN, 3/1/98)
1912Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Isabella Goodwin,
1st US woman detective, was appointed in NYC.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1913Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The US Federal
income tax filing date took effect. It obliged citizens to file
returns regardless of where they lived. The first Form 1040 was four
pages with all of the instructions on page 4. The filing date was
changed to March 15 in 1918 and again to April 15 in 1955.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Day)(SFC,
10/25/13, p.A12)(Econ, 3/5/15, p.31)
1913Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The 1st state law
requiring bonding of officers and state employees was enacted in
North Dakota.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1914Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Ralph Waldo
Ellison, renowned African-American author who wrote "Invisible Man,"
was born.
   (HN, 3/1/99)
1914Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, H. Colijn, Dutch
Minister of war, was named director of British Petroleum.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1915 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Allies
announced their aim to cut off all German supplies, and assured the
safety of the neutrals.
   (HN, 3/1/98)
1916Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Germany began
attacking ships in the Atlantic.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1916Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A conference
of Lithuanians in Berne (Mar 1-5) demanded for the 1st time the full
independence of Lithuania.
   (LHC, 3/1/03)
1917Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Robert Lowell, Jr.,
poet, was born. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for Lord Weary's
Castle.
   (HN, 3/1/01)
1917Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Dinah Shore, singer
(See the USA in a Chevrolet), was born in Winchester, Ten. [see Feb
29, 1916]
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1917Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The 1st US federal
land bank was chartered.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1918Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The state of
Idel-Ural, a Tatar republic in Kazan under Sadri Maqsudi Arsal,
united the region's Finno-Ugric and Turkic peoples. On March 28 it
was defeated by the Red Army. Arsal escaped to Finland.
  Â
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idel-Ural_State)(Econ., 1/30/21,
p.69)
1919Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, US beat poet (Coney Island of the Mind), was born.
[see Mar 24]
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1919 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Korean
coalition proclaimed their independence from Japan. 33 Koreans
gathered in a local restaurant to read a declaration of independence
that ignited a series of demonstrations against Japanese occupation.
The March 1st movement led millions of Koreans to take to the
streets to protest against Japanese rule. Thousands were killed and
many ended up in Keijo’s Seodaemun prison.
   (SSFC, 2/24/13, p.M3)(Econ, 8/15/15, p.34)
1920Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Harry Caray,
baseball announcer (Chicago Cubs), was born.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1920Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Howard Nemerov,
writer, 3rd US poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize recipient, was born.
[HN says 1921]
   (HN, 3/1/01)(SC, 3/1/02)
1921Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Richard Wilbur, 2nd
US Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator, was
born.
   (HN, 3/1/01)(SC, 3/1/02)
1921 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Allies
rejected a $7.5 billion reparations offer in London. German
delegations decided to quit all talks.
   (HN, 3/1/98)
1921Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Montenegro’s Prince
Nikola (b.1841) died. He was the ruler of Montenegro from 1860 to
1918, reigning as sovereign prince from 1860 to 1910 and as king
from 1910 to 1918.
   (http://tinyurl.com/y9vj8zsm)
1921Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Rwanda was ceded to
England.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1921Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Sailors revolted in
Kronstadt, Russia.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1922Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Yitzhak Rabin,
premier (Israel, 1992-95, Nobel 1994), was born.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1923Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Allies occupied
Ruhrgebied and killed a railroad striker.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1924Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Emile Fradin
(d.2010 at 103), French peasant, discovered an underground chamber
containing ancient artifacts that were later dated anywhere from 300
BC to the 15th century. The field, called Duranthon, was later
renamed the Champ des Morts (field of the Dead).
   (Econ, 3/13/10, p.89)
1924Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Germany's
prohibition of Communist Party (KPD) was lifted.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1927Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Harry Belafonte,
calypso singer (Buck and the Preacher), was born in Harlem, NYC.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1927Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Robert Heron Bork,
judge, nominated for supreme court, was born.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1927Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Bank of Italy
became a National Bank. California’s laws prohibiting branch banking
changed and A.P. Giannini consolidated his banking properties into
the Bank of America of California.
   (SFC, 4/14/98, p.B4)(SC, 3/1/02)
1928Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Paul Whiteman and
his orchestra recorded "Ol' Man River" for Victor Records.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1930Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In San Francisco
the 22 storey Clay-Jones Apartments, designed by architect Albert
Larsen, opened at 1250 Jones St.
   (SSFC, 2/1/15, p.D2)(SFC, 2/11/15, p.D1)
1932Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Charles Lindbergh
Jr. (20 months), the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was
kidnapped from his nursery at the family home near Hopewell,
(Princeton) N.J. A handwritten note left at the scene demanded a
$50,000 ransom. Under relentless public scrutiny, the Lindberghs
complied with the ransom demands, but on May 12, the child’s remains
were found two miles from their home. German immigrant Bruno Richard
Hauptmann was arrested and convicted for the crime amid a frenzy of
biased media coverage. Hauptmann maintained his innocence until his
execution in 1936. In 1961 George Waller authored “Kidnap,” an
account of the kidnapping and trial.
   (TMC, 1994, p.1932)(AP, 3/1/98)(HN, 3/1/98)(HNPD,
3/1/99)(WSJ, 11/10/07, p.W8)
1933Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Bank holidays were
declared in 6 states to prevent run on banks.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1934Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Primo Carnera beat
Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1934Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Henry Pu Yi was
crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1935 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Germany celebrated
the return of the Saar Basin to the Reich.
   (HN, 3/1/98)
1935Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Germany officially
established the Luftwaffe.
   (HN, 3/1/01)
1937Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The 1st US
permanent automobile license plates was issued in Connecticut.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1937Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, US Steel raises
workers' wages to $5 a day.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1937Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Governor Wouters
inaugurated a radio station on the Dutch Antilles.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1938Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Gabriele
d’Annunzio, Italian poet, writer and political leader, died. In 2013
Lucy Hughes-Hallett authored “The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio: Poet
Seducer and Preacher of War.”
  Â
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_d%27Annunzio)
1940Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, "Native Son" by
Richard Wright (1908-1960) was first published.  This
launched him as America’s 1st best-selling black author.
   (AP, 3/1/00)(SSFC, 8/12/01, DB p.61)
1940Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In the 12th Academy
Awards: "Gone with the Wind", Robert Donat and Vivien Leigh won.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1940 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, U.S. envoy, Sumner
Welles met with Hitler in Berlin.
   (HN, 3/1/98)
1941Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, "Captain America"
appeared in a comic book.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1941Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, W47NV, the 1st US
FM radio station to broadcast with a commercial license, went on the
air in Nashville, TN.
  Â
(www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=3021)
1941Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Elmer Layden became
the 1st NFL commissioner.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1941Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Himmler inspected
the Auschwitz concentration camp.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1941 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Bulgaria joined
the Axis as the Nazis occupy Sofia.
   (HN, 3/1/98)
1942Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, J. Milton Cage
Jr.’s "Imaginary Landscape No 3" premiered in Chicago.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1942Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Baseball decided
that players in military can't play when on furlough.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1942 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The 3 day Battle
of Java Sea ended as US suffered a major naval defeat. Japanese
troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java. More than 900 Dutch and 250
Indo-Dutch sailors died during the battle in which the Allied navies
suffered a disastrous defeat by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
   (HN, 3/1/98)(SC, 3/1/02)(AFP, 11/17/16)
1942Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Tito established
the 2nd Proletariat Brigade in Bosnia.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1942Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Suriname camp for
NSB people opened to save Jews.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1943 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The British RAF
conducted strategic bombing raids on all European railway lines.
From 1939 to 1945, R.A.F. pilots and air crews waged war on Germany
from inside Hitler's Reich.
   (HN, 3/1/98)
1943Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Amsterdam a
Jewish old age home for disabled was raided.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1944Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Roger Daltrey
Hammersmith, rocker, actor, producer (The Who-Tommy), was born in
London, England.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1944Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Massive strikes
took place in Northern Italian towns.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1944Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, U-358 sank in
Atlantic.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1945Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Burning Spear
[Winston Rodney], Jamaican reggae singer, was born.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1945Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, President
Roosevelt, back from the Yalta Conference, proclaimed the meeting a
success when he addressed a joint session of Congress.
   (AP, 3/1/98)
1945Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, US infantry
regiment captured Mönchengladbach.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1945Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, British 43rd
Division under General Essame occupied Xanten.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1945Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Chinese 30th
division occupied Hsenwi.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1945Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Field marshal
Kesselring succeeded von Rundstedt as commander.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1946Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, British Government
took control of Bank of England, after 252 years.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1946Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In the Netherlands
Felix Gulje, head of a construction company, was murdered at his
door front. Rumors had circled that Gulje worked with
occupation authorities during the war. After his death it emerged
that Gulje had sheltered Jews and given money to hide others. In
2011 Atie Ridder-Visser (96), former resistance member, confessed to
the killing.
   (SFC, 6/9/11, p.A3)
1946Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Panama accepted its
new constitution.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1947Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, International
Monetary Fund began operations.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1949Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Joe Louis retired
as heavyweight boxing champion.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1950Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Chiang Kai-shek
resumed the presidency of Nationalist China in Taipei.
   (www.taiwan.com.au/Polieco/Symbols/report07.html)
1950Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Klaus Fuchs was
sentenced in London to 14 years for atomic espionage.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1950Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, USSR issued golden
rubles.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1952Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In SF Municipal
Railway workers received a wage increase of 9.4 cents effective July
1. This raised their hourly rate to $1.73.
   (SFC, 3/1/02, p.G8)
1952Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Egyptian
government-Ali Maher Pasja resigned.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1952Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Helgoland, in North
Sea, was returned to West Germany by Britain.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1953Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 28, Francis Crick
(d.2004) and James Watson discovered the structure of DNA-molecule.
Watson and Crick managed to describe the structure of DNA as a
double helix consisting of two long strings coiled around one
another. About 100,000 genes, short sections of DNA, tell the cells
how to build proteins, the building blocks of life. Rosalind
Franklin made the 1st x-ray image that revealed the double helix
structure of DNA. In 2002 Brenda Maddox authored "Rosalind Franklin:
The Dark Lady of DNA." In 2003 Watson co-authored "DNA: The Secret
of Life."Â [see Apr 25, Sep 20, 1953]
   (V.D.-H.K.p.330)(TL, 1988, p.114)(Wired, 1/97,
p.161)(SSFC, 11/10/02, p.M2)(WSJ, 3/28/03, p.W8)(AP, 2/28/04)
1954Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The US Senate
confirmed the Earl Warren for Chief Justice of the US. He had been
serving as the Interim chief Justice since Oct 5, 1953.
  Â
(www.supremecourthistory.org/history/supremecourthistory_history_chief_014warren.htm)
1954Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Puerto Rican
nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of
Representatives, wounding five congressmen. In 1998 the
granddaughter of one of the nationalists published a family memoir.
Lolita Lebron (1919-2010), Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irving Flores and
Andres Figueroa Cordero all received lengthy prison sentences.
President Jimmy Carter granted them clemency in 1979 and they were
released.
   (WUD, 1994, p.1685)(AP, 3/1/98)(NPR, 2/28/98)(AP,
8/1/10)
1954Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Bravo hydrogen
bomb test exploded across Bikini atoll (Marshall Islands) with the
force of 1,000 Hiroshima bombs. A Nuclear Claims Tribunal,
established in 1986, later awarded Bikini and Enewetak 500 million
dollars but only a fraction of the amount was received. A Nov 30,
2004, deadline limited further suits.
   (AP,
10/17/04)(www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX51.html)
1954Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The No. 5
Fukuryu-maru was trolling for tuna off the Bikini atoll in the
Pacific during the Bravo hydrogen bomb test. 11 crew members died in
the half-century since the exposure, at least six of them from liver
cancer. Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted 66
nuclear tests at Bikini as part of "Operation Crossroads."
   (AP, 2/28/04)
1954Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Ted Williams
fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39
combat missions without injury in Korean War.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1954Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Rebellion during
visit of President Naguib in Khartoum Sudan, 30 die.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1955Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The SF Chronicle
reported that a Univ. of California survey found that Americans
spend more money on comic books that all the country’s elementary
schools and high schools spend on textbooks.
   (SFC, 2/25/05, p.F4)
1955Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Chase National (the
3rd largest US bank) and Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest
bank) merged and were renamed as Chase Manhattan.
   (http://www.dfs.ny.gov/about/histh.txt)
1955Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, An Israeli
retaliation in Gaza is reported as having killed 37 Egyptians and
wounded 29 others. Palestinians stone the United Nations Gaza
office.Â
   (www.fsmitha.com/time/1955.htm)
1957Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, "Ziegfeld Follies
of 1957" opened at Winter Garden NYC for 123 performances.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1957Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Kokomo the Chimp
became the Today Show animal editor.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1958 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Doctors declared
that President Eisenhower had fully recovered from his stroke.
   (HN, 3/1/98)
1958Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Giacomo Balla
(b.1871), Italian composer and painter, died. He was a
signatory to the 1910 Futurist Manifesto, and designed and painting
Futurist furniture. He also created Futurist "antineutral" clothing.
   (Econ, 2/22/14,
p.71)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Balla)
1959Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Archbishop Makarios
returned to Cyprus after 3 years.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1960 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, 1,000 Black
students prayed and sang the national anthem on the steps of the old
Confederate Capitol in Montgomery, Ala.
   (HN, 3/1/98)
1961Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Cellist Jacqueline
du Prés made her debut in Wigmore Hall.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1961Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, President Kennedy
established the Peace Corps. The first volunteers were sent to
Ghana.
   (TMC, 1994, p.1961)(SFC, 8/7/96, p.A15)(AP,
3/1/98)(SFC, 3/21/98, p.A13)
1962Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A US Army
memorandum was put out titled “Possible Actions to Provoke, Harass
or Disrupt Cuba.”
   (SFC,11/19/97, p.A4)
1962Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, US-British nuclear
test experiment took place in Nevada.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1962Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The first Kmart, a
60,000-sq.-ft. store, opened in Garden City, Mich. It was originally
know as Kresge's, a five and dime store founded in 1899. The company
was modernized under Harry B. Cunningham and re-opened as Kmart less
than 30 miles from Kresge's headquarters in downtown Detroit.
  Â
(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3092/is_n4_v31/ai_11875088/)
1962Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, American Airlines
707 plunged nose 1st into Jamaica Bay, NY, killing 95.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1962Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Uganda became a
self-governing country under PM Benedicto Kiwanuka.
  Â
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Uganda)
1963Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, 200,000 French mine
workers went on strike.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1964Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In San Francisco
demonstrations began at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel over racial hiring
practices.
   (SFC, 3/1/14, p.A1)
1965Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Gas explosion
killed 28 in apartment complex at La Salle, Quebec, Canada.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1966Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Moscow reported
that a space probe had crashed on Venus. Venera 3 became the 1st
man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus).
   (HN, 3/1/98)(SC, 3/1/02)
1966Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Baath-party
took power in Syria. Among the fighters who had a part in toppling
Amin Hafez was Hafez Assad, who became president four years later
and ruled Syria with an iron fist for three decades.
   (SC, 3/1/02)(AP, 12/18/09)  Â
1967Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, US Rep. Adam
Clayton Powell (1908-1972) of New York City, accused of misconduct,
was denied his seat in the 90th Congress. The House of
Representatives voted 307 to 116 to expel Powell. The Supreme Court
ruled in 1969 that Powell had to be seated.
   (AP,
3/1/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Clayton_Powell_Jr.)
1967Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Queen Elizabeth
Hall (South Bank Center) opened in London.
  Â
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Hall)
1967Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Dominica became a
West Indies associated state with Edward Oliver LeBlanc as premier.
Full independence was attained on Nov. 03, 1978.
  Â
(www.chiefacoins.com/Database/Countries/Dominica.htm)
1967Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, St. Lucia became a
West Indies associated state with John Compton as Premier. It gained
full independence on Feb 22, 1979.
   (www.stlucia1979.com/page3.htm)
1968Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Secretary of
Defense Robert McNamara was replaced by Clark Clifford.
   (HN, 3/1/99)
1968Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Singers Johnny Cash
(36) and June Carter (38) wed.
   (SFC, 9/13/03, p.A12)
1968Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The first 15-minute
version of the musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat" by Andrew Lloyd Weber was performed at Central Hall,
Westminster, London.
   (www.thisistheatre.com/joseph/index.html)
1968Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The British
Parliament amended its Commonwealth Immigrants Act of 1962 further
reducing rights of citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations countries
to migrate to the UK.
  Â
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Immigrants_Act_1968)
1969Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, "Red, White, and
Maddox" closed at Cort Theater in NYC after 41 performances.
   (www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3452)
1969 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Mickey Mantle of
the NY Yankees announced his retirement from baseball.
   (HN,
3/1/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mantle)
1969Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Jim Morrison
(d.1971), lead singer for the Doors, exposed himself at Dinner Key
Auditorium in Miami before 10,000 people. An arrest warrant was
issued for Morrison four days after the concert. He turned himself
in, was tried the next year and convicted on two charges. Gov.
Charlie Crist and Florida's Cabinet members pardoned Morrison of
those convictions on Dec 9, 2010.
   (SFC, 12/24/02, p.A13)(AP, 12/10/10)
1970Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Kreisky's
social-democrats won the Austrian parliamentary election.
  Â
(http://tinyurl.com/3tv72y)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_legislative_election,_1970)
1950Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Kim Soo-im
(b.1911), a former US-employed assistant and lover to provost
marshal Col. John E. Baird, was arrested by South Korean police,
joining thousands of others ensnared in President Syngman Rhee's
roundups of leftists — workers and writers, teachers, peasants and
others with suspect politics. She was soon tried and executed in
June by South Korea as an alleged spy.
   (AP, 8/17/08)
1970Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The white
government of Rhodesia declared independence from Britain.
  Â
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/2/newsid_2514000/2514683.stm)
1971Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The bombing in the
U.S. Capitol building was claimed to be in protest of U.S.
involvement in Laos. The bomb exploded in a Capitol restroom 30
minutes after a telephone warning, which proclaimed the action to
protest against U.S. involvement in Laos. Some $200,000 in damage
was caused by the bombing. There were no injuries.
   (HNQ, 7/30/98)
1972Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, David Rabe's
"Sticks and Bones" premiered in New York City.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticks_and_Bones)
1972Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Kathy Boudin and
Bernardine Dohrn, members of the Weathermen, set explosives in the
1st-floor ladies room of the US Capitol building. [See Oct 20, 1981]
   (WSJ, 11/26/03,
p.A1)(http://hnn.us/articles/1155.html)
1973Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In the Paumanok
Handicap at Aqueduct, NYC, Robyn Smith rode North Star to victory,
becoming the first woman jockey to win a stakes race.
   (www.hickoksports.com/calendar/mar01.shtml)
1974Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A grand jury in
Washington, DC, concluded that President Nixon was indeed involved
in the Watergate cover-up. 7 people, including former Nixon
White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, former
Attorney General John Mitchell and former assistant Attorney General
Robert Mardian, were indicted on charges of conspiring to obstruct
justice in connection with the Watergate break-in. They were
convicted the following January, although Mardian's conviction was
later reversed. In 2005 Vanity Fair Magazine revealed that W. Mark
Felt (91), former FBI official, was the Watergate whistleblower Deep
Throat, who helped bring down Pres. Nixon.
   (HN, 3/1/98)(AP, 3/1/99)(AP, 6/1/05)
1975Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In the 17th Grammy
Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch won.
  Â
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Awards_of_1975)
1975Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Eagles' "Best of My
Love" reached #1.
  Â
(www.joshhosler.biz/NumberOneInHistory/03/0301.htm)
1976Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The US Intelligence
Oversight Board was created as part of Pres. Ford’s Feb 18 Executive
Order 11905. It was made up of private citizens and designed to
ferret out illegal spying activities. In 2008 Pres George W. Bush
issued an executive order that stripped the board of much of its
authority.
   (SSFC, 3/16/08, p.A4)
1977Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The US 200-mile
fishery conservation zone went into effect. The US extended its
territorial waters out to 200 miles to stop fishing by boats of
foreign nations.
  Â
(www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=6865)(NH, 5/96, p.61)
1978Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, "Timbuktu!" opened
at Mark Hellinger Theater in NYC for 243 performances.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu!)
1979Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, "Sweeney Todd" with
Angel Lansbury opened at Uris Theater in NYC for 557 performances.
The score was by Stephen Sondheim.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweeney_Todd)(SFEC,
5/31/98, BR p.1)
1981Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, "Sophisticated
Ladies" opened at Lunt-Fontanne in NYC for 767 performances.
  Â
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophisticated_Ladies)
1981Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Roberto C. Goizueta
(d.1997) was named CEO of Coca-Cola. Under his direction Coke’s
value increased from $5 billion to $150 billion.
   (SFEC, 10/19/97, p.C11)
1981Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Irish Republican
Army member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in
Northern Ireland; he died 65 days later.
   (AP, 3/1/00)
1982Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In France Patrice
Hyvert (23), an aspiring guide, went for a solo ascent on Mont Blanc
and disappeared in a snowstorm. On July 3, 2014, climbers found his
body.
   (AP, 7/10/14)
1982Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Russian spacecraft
Venera 13 landed on Venus and sent back data.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_13)
1983Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A tornado producing
F2 damage touched down in St. Louis, Mo. It later strengthened and
produced F3 damage in Illinois causing five million dollars in
damage.
   (www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/trivia/mar_trivia.php)
1983Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Arthur Koestler
(b.1905), Hungary-born British writer (Dialogue With Death), died in
a double suicide with his wife in London. His novels included
"Darkness at Noon" (1940). In 1998 David Cesarani authored "Arthur
Koestler: The Homeless Mind." In 2009 Michael Scammell authored
“Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century
Skeptic.”
   (SSFC, 1/3/10, Books
p.F3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Koestler)
1984Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, NASA launched
Landsat-D Prime (Landsat 5) to map the Earth.
  Â
(http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/landsat5.html)
1984Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 19, The USSR performed
a nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan, Semipalitinsk.
   (www.iss.niiit.ru/ksenia/catal_nt/3_10.htm)
1984Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Jackie Coogan
(b.1914), actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), died.
   (http://imdb.com/name/nm0001067/)
1985 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Pentagon
accepted the theory that an atomic war would block the sun, causing
a "nuclear winter."
   (HN, 3/1/98)
1985Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Herb Kohl (b.1935),
Milwaukee businessman and later US Senator (1988), purchased the
Milwaukee Bucks basketball team.
   (www.nba.com/bucks/history/history.html)
1986Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Sweden Social
Democrat Ingvar Carlsson became prime minister. He served until
October 1991. Under his administration Sweden made the decision to
apply to join the EU.
  Â
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sweden)(Econ,
3/3/07, p.57)
1988Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, President Reagan
arrived in Brussels, Belgium, for the first NATO summit in six
years.
   (AP, 3/1/98)
1988Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Robert K. Best was
appointed by California Gov. George Deukmejian to serve as the chief
of Caltrans and served from this day to May 15, 1991. He helped
design a 10-year master plan and adopted a project management system
to track time and costs.
   (SFEC, 1/31/99, p.A14)
1988Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Courtney Gibbs
Eplin (21) of Texas was crowned 37th Miss USA.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1988Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Pontiac announced
the end of the Fiero automobile.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1988Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Iraq said it had
fired 16 missiles into Tehran in the first long-range rocket attack
on the Iranian capital since the Iran-Iraq war began.
   (AP, 3/1/98)
1989Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Senate
overwhelmingly approved Dr. Louis W. Sullivan to be secretary of
health and human services and Adm. James D. Watkins to be secretary
of energy.
   (AP, 3/1/99)
1989Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Ben Johnson's coach
testified that Johnson began using steroids in 1981.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1989Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Julianne Phillips
and Bruce Springsteen divorced.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1989Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Prairie Meadows
racetrack in Polk County near Des Moines, Iowa, opened for business.
It lost money until it was converted to a casino in April, 1995.
   (WSJ, 6/24/96, B1,11)
1989Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Three teenagers in
New Jersey assaulted a mentally retarded girl with a broom and a
baseball bat as up to ten classmates watched. They were sentenced to
up to 15 years in a youth facility in 1997. In 1997 Prof. Bernard
Lefkowitz wrote “Our Guys,” an investigation of the events
surrounding the crime.
   (SFC, 7/1/97, p.A3)(SFEC, 11/16/97, BR p.3)
1990Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The controversial
Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant won federal permission to go on
line after two decades of protests and legal struggles.
   (AP, 3/1/00)
1990Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Benin nullified its
constitution.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1990Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Luis Alberto
Lacelle was sworn in as President of Uruguay.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1991Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, President Bush said
“we’ve kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all” following the
allied victory in the Gulf War.
   (AP, 3/1/01)
1991Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The US Embassy in
Kuwait officially reopened.
   (AP, 3/1/01)
1991Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Edwin H. Land,
inventor of polarizing filters and Polaroid instant photography,
died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at age 81. He had co-founded
Polaroid Corp. with George Wheelwright III (d.2001 at 97).
   (AP, 3/1/01)(SFC, 3/3/01, p.A22)
1991Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1-7, US military
specialists surveyed and then detonated a bunker at Kamisiyah, Iraq.
The site had been declared a chemical weapons storage area by Iraq
after the Gulf War. No trace of chemical agents were found before or
after but US & UN inspections teams had earlier found nerve
agent rockets and mustard gas shells in open pits at the site. It
was later acknowledged by the Pentagon that more than 15,000 US
troops may have been exposed to nerve gas due to the detonations.
Defense Department logs of this period were later reported lost. In
April 1997 the CIA acknowledged errors that led to the demolition.
   (SFC, 6/22/96, p.A15)(SFC, 10/19/96, A4)(SFC,
3/1/97, p.A2)(SFC, 4/10/97, p.A1)
1991Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1-7, The US military
used new ammunition made of depleted uranium. It produced a toxic
debris that US soldiers were not informed about at the time.
   (SFEC, 8/17/97, p.A1)
1992Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, "Little Hotel on
the Side" closed at Belasco in NYC after 41 performances.
   (www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0405)
1992Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, "Visit" closed at
Criterion Theater in NYC after 45 performances.
   (www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0426)
1992Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Sen. Brock Adams
abandoned his re-election campaign after eight women accused him in
a Seattle Times report of sexual abuse and harassment.
   (AP, 3/1/02)
1992Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Bosnian Serbs began
sniping in Sarajevo, after Croats and Moslems voted for Bosnian
independence.
   (HN, 3/1/99)
1993Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, George Steinbrenner
was reinstated as owner of New York Yankees.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1993Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The new expansion
NHL (hockey) team, owned by Disney, was named the Mighty Ducks.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1993Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Authorities near
Waco, Texas, continued negotiating with Branch Davidians holed up in
their bullet-scarred compound, a day after a furious gun battle
between the Davidians and federal agents that left 10 people dead.
   (AP, 3/1/98)
1993Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Luis Kutner
(b.1908), US human rights activist, died. He and Peter Benenson
co-founded Amnesty International (1961).
  Â
(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9112409?tocId=9112409)
1994Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, At the 36th annual
Grammy Awards, Whitney Houston won best female pop vocalist and
record of the year for "I Will Always Love You"; "The Bodyguard" won
album of the year.
   (AP, 3/1/99)
1994Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Falling four votes
shy of a two-thirds majority, the US Senate rejected a balanced
budget amendment to the Constitution.
   (AP, 3/1/99)
1994Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Martti Ahtisaari
was inaugurated as President of Finland.
   (SFC, 6/4/99, p.A10)(SC, 3/1/02)
1994Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A Lebanese
immigrant opened fire on a van of Hasidic students on New York's
Brooklyn Bridge, killing one.
   (AP, 3/1/99)
1995Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, At the 37th annual
Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Sheryl Crow won record of the year for
"All I Wanna Do" while Tony Bennett's "MTV Unplugged" was named best
album.
   (AP, 3/1/00)
1995Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, As of this day
Belgian armed forces consisted of professional volunteers only.
   (www.wri-irg.org/co/rtba/archive/belgium.htm)
1995Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Bosnian Serb
government received a $60 million mortgage for the oil refinery in
Srpski Brod from a Liberian-owned company, Orbal Marketing Service
Ltd. [see Jan 1995] Delivery was made to the Bosnian Serbs in late
March of a supposed nuclear device of red mercury at the Gradiska
border. It was discovered to be a swindle.
   (SFEC, 12/14/97, p.A25)
1995Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Jozef Oleksy
succeeded Waldemar Pawlak as premier of Poland.
  Â
(http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Waldemar+Pawlak)
1995Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Somalia militiamen
loyal to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid seized control of the
Mogadishu airport after peacekeepers withdrew.
   (AP, 3/1/00)
1995Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Vitaly Massol,
Ukraine premier, resigned.
   (www.ukraine-observer.com/articles/205/612)
1995Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Julio Maria
Sanguinetti was sworn in as President of Uruguay.
  Â
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Mar%C3%ADa_Sanguinetti)
1996Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Lenny Wilkens,
winningest coach in NBA, coached his 1,000th victory.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1996Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, President Clinton
slapped economic sanctions on Colombia, concluding that Colombian
authorities had not fully cooperated with the US war on drugs.
   (AP, 3/1/01)
1996Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Food and Drug
Administration approved a powerful new AIDS drug, saying ritonavir
could prolong slightly the lives of severely ill patients.
   (AP, 3/1/01)
1996Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, New toll-free 888
area code was introduced.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1996Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Plans were approved
allowing traffic cameras at High Harrington and Shap, England.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1996Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The first
Asia-Europe meeting (ASEM) opened in Bangkok, Thailand, with 25
countries and the EU Commission participating.
   (Econ, 10/9/10, p.63)(http://tinyurl.com/25mhkw7)
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, At Spring Lake near
Santa Rosa, Ca., Paul Duclos caught a 24-pound largemouth bass,
photographed it, weighed it and released it. The official record was
a 22-pound, 4-ounce bass caught in Montgomery Lake, Ga. To be
official the fish has to be killed, properly weighed and certified
by the Int’l. Gamefish Assoc.
   (SFEC, 4/20/97, p.C3)
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Severe storms hit
Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi, and spawned tornadoes in
Arkansas blamed for two dozen deaths.
   (AP, 3/1/98)
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Albania Pres.
Sali Berisha said that his cabinet ministers would resign and be
replaced by leaders acceptable to the opposition.
   (SFEC, 3/2/97, p.A14)
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Austria it was
announced that the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra would allow Ann
Lelkes, a harpist who had played with the orchestra for 26 years, to
become an official member. There still existed an unofficial but
firm policy against admitting members of racial or ethnic
minorities.
   (SFC, 3/1/97, p.E1)
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Rescue teams fought
snow, high winds and wild dogs as they tried to bring help to an
earthquake-devastated region in northwest Iran, where the death toll
was estimated at 3,000.
   (AP, 3/1/98)
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Papua New Guinea
Sir Julius Chan announced that the government would buy the 54%
stake in Bougainville Copper held by RTZ-CRA Ltd.
   (WSJ, 3/4/97, p.A15)
1997Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Sudan the
government signed an agreement to build a 900-mile pipeline from the
southern oilfields to Port Sudan on the Red Sea. Chinese National
Petroleum would control 40% and Malaysia would own 30% through its
state owned oil company.
   (WSJ, 3/11/97, p.A22)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, "Art" opened at
Royale Theater NYC.
   (SC, 3/1/02)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Burma’s military
regime arrested 40 people it accused of planning to assassinate
leaders and bomb buildings.
   (WSJ, 3/2/98, p.A1)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, China pledged to
spend $32.6 billion to stabilize nearly insolvent state banks amid
the Asian financial crises.
   (WSJ, 1/4/98, p.R4)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Germany, Lower
Saxony Governor Gerhard Schroeder won a sweeping re-election that
paved the way for his successful campaign to oust Chancellor Helmut
Kohl.
   (AP, 3/1/99)
1998Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Weekend clashes in
Kosovo left 24 ethnic Albanians and 4 Serb policemen dead. Police
arrested 5 people and seized weapons caches.
   (WSJ, 3/2/98, p.A1)(FT, 3/4/98, p.1)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The US General
Accounting Office released an audit of the Internal Revenue Service
which found chronic problems in the agency's record-keeping.
   (AP, 3/1/00)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Minutes before a
midnight deadline Pacific Lumber agreed with government negotiators
on a $480 million deal to preserve the Headwaters Forest in northern
California. 10,000 acres of old growth forest was to be sold and
protection was imposed on 211,000 acres of adjacent lands.
   (SFC, 3/2/99, p.A1)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Service
Employees Int'l. Union announced a major campaign to organize
salaried physicians.
   (SFC, 3/2/99, p.A6)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, New York Univ.
announced that its journalism professors and others had compiled a
list of the top 100 works of 20th century American journalism.
   (WSJ, 3/12/99, p.W18)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The 1997 Ottawa
Treaty, banning the use, production, transfer and storage of land
mines, went into effect. 133 countries honored the treaty but the US
and China had not signed it. Participating nations agreed to destroy
anti-personnel land mines within 4 years and to get them out of
fields within 10.
   (SFEC, 1/3/99, Par p.13)(SFC, 2/19/99, p.A3)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A US report on
policy with North Korea indicated that North Korea was involved in
the production and distribution of narcotics. An area 10-17 thousand
acres was estimated to be under poppy cultivation with opium
production at 30-44 annual metric tons.
   (SFC, 3/27/99, p.A10)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Balloonists
Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Brian Jones of Britain took off
from the Swiss Alps in an attempt to circle the globe.
   (SFC, 3/15/99, p.A9)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Colombia a
far-right death squad killed 8 people and kidnapped 3 in
Barrancabermeja, a stronghold of the National Liberation Army (ELN).
   (SFC, 3/2/99, p.A9)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Haiti Senator
Jean-Yvon Toussaint (47) was shot in the head in Delmas.
   (SFC, 3/2/99, p.A9)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Indonesia 9
people were killed when police opened fire on a crowd outside a
mosque at Ambon.
   (SFC, 3/2/99, p.A9)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, US warplanes
dropped over 30 laser-guided bombs on military targets in northern
Iraq.
   (SFC, 3/2/99, p.A8)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Nigeria a
gasoline bombing of 2 police stations left 2 people dead including
one policeman and 4 injured. The attack was blamed on a group called
Odudua, which wants a separate country for the Yoruba tribe of
southwest Nigeria.
   (SFC, 3/4/99, p.C4)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, About this time
Serb municipal and police officials provided paramilitaries lists
with the names and assets of wealthy Albanians and lists of people
slated for execution. At least 5 paramilitary groups were in
operation and included Arkan's Tigers led by Zeljko Raznatovic and
Frenki's Boys led by Franko Simatovic. In 2013 Simatovic and Jovica
Stanisic, allies of Pres. Milosevic, were acquitted of setting up
and arming Serb paramilitary gangs in Bosnia and Croatia during the
Balkan wars.
   (WSJ, 9/1/99, p.A18)(SFC, 5/31/13, p.A3)
1999Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Uganda Hutu
rebels kidnapped 13 tourists and an unknown number of Ugandans at
the Bwindi Nat'l. Park. Linda Adams of Alamo, Ca., escaped, the
rebels by faking an asthma attack. An attack by Rwandan Hutu rebels
left eight foreign tourists, including two Americans, and a park
guard dead. Separately rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces killed
5 people in a camp near Ntotoro village.
   (SFC, 3/2/99, p.A8)(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A1,C5)(AP,
3/1/00)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Candidates in both
major parties turned their focus to Super Tuesday, a day after Texas
Governor George W. Bush won primaries in Virginia, North Dakota and
Washington state, while Vice President Al Gore won in Washington
state.
   (AP, 3/1/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Classes were
canceled at Buell Elementary School in Mount Morris Township,
Michigan, a day after six-year-old Kayla Rolland was fatally shot,
allegedly by a fellow first-grader.
   (AP, 3/1/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Pennsylvania
Ronald Taylor (39) killed 3 people and wounded 2 at an apartment and
2 fast food restaurants in Wilkinsburg. In 2001 Taylor was sentenced
to death for the killing of 3 white men.
   (SFC, 3/2/00, p.A3)(AP, 3/1/01)(SFC, 11/12/01,
p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Britain Home
Sec. Jack Straw ruled that Gen. Pinochet should not be extradited to
Spain.
   (SFC, 3/2/00, p.A11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Ecuador the
Congress passed legislation to replace the sucre with US dollars in
a bid to end a recession.
   (WSJ, 3/2/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Tarja Halonen
assumed office as Finland’s first female president.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarja_Halonen)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Japan police
officials reported that the Aum Shinri Kyo sect had developed
software for at least 10 government agencies and for more than 80
major companies in recent years. The sect had recently changed its
name to Aleph and denounced its violent past.
   (SFC, 3/2/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Nigeria Pres.
Obasanjo deplored the recent killings in the southeast as the death
toll passed 400.
   (WSJ, 3/2/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Sudan government
aircraft bombed a hospital compound in rebel-held territory in Lui.
2 people were killed and a dozen injured.
   (SFC, 3/4/00, p.C1)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Afghanistan's
ruling Taliban, defying international protests, began destroying all
statues in the country.
   (AP, 3/1/02)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The UK banned the
Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
   (WSJ, 12/8/08, p.A6)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, China was reported
to consume a little over 6% of the world’s total 75.5 million
barrels per day.
   (WSJ, 3/1/01, p.A1)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Ecuador 7
foreign oil workers (a Chilean, an Argentine, a New Zealander and
four Americans), kidnapped last October, were released following a
$13 million ransom.
   (SFC, 3/2/01, p.A16)(AP, 3/1/02)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Fiji high court
ruled that the military-backed government was illegal and that the
1997 multi-racial constitution remained in effect.
   (SFC, 3/2/01, p.D5)(Econ, 8/14/04, p.40)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Israel a
Palestinian in a taxi detonated a bomb that killed one passenger,
injured 9 and blew off his own legs.
   (SFC, 3/2/01, p.A17)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Pres. Bush approved
plans to send some 100 US troops to Yemen to help train the nation’s
military to fight terrorists.
   (SFC, 3/2/02, p.A14)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Under pressure from
prosecutors, the Archdiocese of Boston agreed to turn over the names
of people allegedly molested by priests.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The space shuttle
Columbia with 7 astronauts blasted into orbit on an 11-day mission
that included work on the Hubble Space Telescope.
   (SFC, 3/2/02, p.A3)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, NASA scientists
said that vast ice fields had been detected under the surface of
Mars with a gamma ray spectrometer on the Odyssey orbiter
   (SFC, 3/2/02, p.A1)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Grand American
series driver Jeff Clinton was killed during practice in a crash at
Homestead-Miami Speedway.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In China laid-off
workers of the Daqing Oilfield Co. began massive protests for
re-negotiation of early retirement packages. Some 86,000 of 260,000
workers had been laid off since 1999. Daily protests hit as many as
50k workers.
   (WSJ, 3/14/02, p.A1)(SFC, 3/20/02, p.A9)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Envisat
("Environmental Satellite"), an Earth-observing satellite, was
launched aboard an Ariane 5 from the Guyana Space Center in Kourou,
French Guyana. After losing contact with the satellite on 8 April
2012, the European Space Agency formally announced the end of
Envisat's mission on 9 May 2012.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envisat)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Gujarat, India,
the death toll from Hindu-Muslim violence passed 300 and some 3,500
troops moved into Ahmadabad to quell the violence. 14 Muslims burned
to death in the Best Bakery in Vadodara. 21 Hindus, accused of
murder, were later acquitted after almost 40 witnesses withdrew
evidence. At least 23 people taking shelter in a house were killed
when a mob set it on fire at Ode village in Anand district of
Gujarat.
   (SFC, 3/2/02, p.A1)(Econ, 9/20/03,
p.40)(http://tinyurl.com/7lha7n5)
2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Israeli troops
swept through refugee camps in Jenin and Nablus looking for terror
suspects. One solder was killed along with 6 Palestinians fighters
and a 10-year-old girl.
   (SFC, 3/2/02, p.A7)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The US
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) ceased to exist as it
was incorporated into the Dept. of Homeland Security.
   (SFC, 3/1/03, A6)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The US
designated 3 rebel groups in Chechnya as terrorist organizations
linked to al-Qaeda and imposed a freeze on their US assets.
   (SSFC, 3/2/03, A21)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Geneva
more than 170 nations agreed, despite US objections, on a text for a
tobacco treaty that would impose worldwide restrictions on
advertising and labeling, while clamping down on smuggling and
second-hand smoke.
   (AP, 3/1/03)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Brazil a
truce between landless farmworkers and President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva peace ended, when some 1,000 landless farmers occupied a ranch
80 miles west of Sao Paulo.
   (AP, 3/6/03)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Rebels
attacked the motorcade of Chechnya's pro-Moscow leader, Akhmad
Kadyrov, killing four bodyguards and three policemen.
   (AP, 3/3/03)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Arab leaders
held a summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The UAR became the 1st Arab
country to call for Saddam Hussein to step down.
   (SSFC, 3/2/03, A8)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Iraq
destroyed 4 of over 100 Al Samoud 2 missiles and agreed with the UN
on a timetable to dismantle the rest of the missile program.
   (AP, 3/1/03)(SSFC, 3/2/03, A1)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In the Ivory
Coast government helicopter gunships attacked a rebel-held
Bin-Houye, killing 20 civilians and injuring many others.
   (AP, 3/2/03)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Pakistan
a joint raid outside Islamabad by CIA and Pakistani agents led to
the arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (Khaled Sheikh Mohammed), the
suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, along
with 2 others. Documents and computer files later revealed that the
al Qaeda biochemical weapons program was well advanced.
   (AP, 3/1/03)(SSFC, 3/23/03, p.A1)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Poland
the year-old left-leaning government under PM Leszek Miller
collapsed after an emergency meeting between coalition partners
broke down in a bitter dispute sparked by a new tax plan.
   (AP, 3/1/03)(SSFC, 3/2/03, A7)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A small
plane crashed in central Russia, killing 11 people.
   (AP, 3/1/03)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In South
Korea some 100,000 older people held a pro-US rally in Seoul. Hours
later thousands of young people held an anti-US rally.
   (SSFC, 3/2/03, A16)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In central
Taiwan a train filled with tourists on a weekend outing overturned
while descending a mountain, killing 17 people and injuring 102.
   (AP, 3/1/03)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Turkey's
parliament failed to approve a bill allowing in American combat
troops to open a northern front against Iraq. Lawmakers voted
264-250 in favor of stationing US troops but that was 3 votes shy of
a constitutionally mandated simple majority.
   (AP, 3/2/03)(AP, 3/1/08)
2003Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The United Arab
Emirates called for Saddam Hussein to step down, the first Arab
country to do so publicly.
   (AP, 3/1/04)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, US officials said
the United States has turned over seven Russian citizens who were
being held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
   (AP, 3/1/04)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The California
Supreme Court ruled a Roman Catholic charity had to offer
birth-control coverage to its employees.
   (AP, 3/1/05)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, An explosion in an
unlicensed coal mine in northern China killed 28 miners.
   (AP, 3/3/04)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Haiti rebels
rolled into the capital and were met by hundreds of residents
dancing in the streets and cheering the ouster of Pres.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide. U.S. Marines and French troops moved to take
control of the impoverished country as Aristide arrived in South
Africa. There were reports of reprisal killings.
   (AP, 3/1/04)(WSJ, 3/2/04, p.A1)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Jean-Bertrand
Aristide from the Central African Republic said in a telephone
interview that he was "forced to leave" Haiti by U.S. military
forces.
   (AP, 3/1/04)(SFC, 3/02/04, p.A1)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In eastern India a
motorboat packed with players and spectators heading to a cricket
match capsized, and police said 20 people were feared dead.
   (AP, 3/1/04)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Iraqi politicians
agreed on an interim constitution with 2 official languages, a wide
ranging bill of rights and a single chief executive, bridging a gulf
between members over the role of Islam in the future government.
   (AP, 3/1/04)(WSJ, 3/2/04, p.A1)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, President Vladimir
Putin nominated Mikhail Fradkov, a former tax police chief who is
Russia's representative to the European Union, for the post of prime
minister.
   (AP, 3/1/04)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Kujo Krijestorac
(51), a key witness to the murder of Serbian PM Zoran Djindjic, was
gunned down near his Belgrade home.
   (AP, 3/9/04)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The US Supreme
Court ruled 5-4 that executing murderers under age 18 is
unconstitutional.
   (SFC, 3/2/05, p.A1)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Dennis Rader, the
churchgoing family man accused of leading a double life as the BTK
serial killer, was charged in Wichita, Kan., with 10 counts of
first-degree murder. Rader later pleaded guilty and received
multiple life sentences.
   (AP, 3/1/06)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Congo UN
peacekeeping troops, backed by an attack helicopter, responded after
being fired on and killed up to 60 militants accused of terrorizing
villagers and killing nine Bangladeshi peacekeepers. Congo arrested
an eastern militia leader and 2 generals related to the peacekeeper
killings. Women fighters were among the 50 people killed by UN
troops under Dutch Gen. Patrick Cammaert. On April 12 the human
rights group Justice Plus listed names of several alleged civilian
victims from the raid in eastern Congo and said they "paid with
their life, while the mandate of the United Nations was to protect
them."
   (AP, 3/2/05)(WSJ, 3/2/05, p.A1)(Reuters,
3/5/05)(Econ, 3/12/05, p.49)(AP, 4/13/05)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, French journalist
Florence Aubenas, looking pale and distraught, appealed for help on
a video in her first since she went missing in Iraq on Jan. 5.
   (AP, 3/1/05)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Guatemala City
some 8,000 protesters, most of them teachers, demonstrated in the
capital against a pending free-trade agreement between Central
America and the US.
   (AP, 3/2/05)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Indonesia reduced
subsidies on various fuels.
   (Econ, 3/5/05, p.43)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In northern
Baghdad's Azamyiah district gunmen killed judge Barwez Mohammed
Mahmoud (59) and his lawyer son, members of Iraq’s war crimes
tribunal.
   (AP, 3/2/05)(SFC, 3/2/05, p.A12)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Lebanon's president
took on the task of forming a new government, while opposition
leaders shook off the jubilation of using people power to force out
a pro-Syrian Cabinet.
   (AP, 3/1/05)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Palestinian leader
Mahmoud Abbas pledged to reform Palestinian security. Militants in
the West Bank town of Jenin issued a belligerent challenge to the
new Palestinian leadership's efforts to rein in militant groups,
shooting in the air and demanding that the visiting security chief,
Interior Minister Nasser Yousef, leave the area immediately.
   (AP, 3/1/05)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Geneva, Switz.,
Edouard Stern, French financier and former Lazard banker, was found
dead in his home. Swiss police later arrested Cecile Brossard (36),
his French lover, who confessed to the sex-related killing of banker
Edouard Stern. During her trial in 2009 she said that she lost
control after Stern called her a whore. On June 18, 2009, Brossard
was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison.
   (WSJ, 3/3/05, p.A1)(AP, 3/16/05)(WSJ, 4/14/05,
p.A1)(SFC, 6/15/09, p.A2)(AP, 6/18/09)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Ukraine’s top
security body decided to Ukrainian troops from Iraq.
   (SFC, 3/2/05, p.A12)  Â
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Dr. Tabare Vazquez
(65) took office as Uruguay's first socialist president, joining the
ranks of left-leaning leaders in Latin America, now six in all,
governing a majority of the region's people with a cautious approach
to U.S.-backed free-market policies. In one of his first official
acts, he restored full diplomatic ties with communist Cuba, more
than two years after a diplomatic row divided the countries.
   (AP, 3/1/05)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, President Bush, on
an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, vowed to stand by this emerging
democracy and "not cut and run" in the face of rising violence. He
also predicted Osama bin Laden would be captured despite a futile
five-year hunt.
   (AP, 3/1/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Cape Town
Convention, aimed to cut the risk of financing the purchase or lease
of aircraft, became effective. It made it easier for creditors to
seize airplanes from deadbeat carriers.
   (WSJ, 2/27/06, p.A4)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A senior official
said authorities have regained control of Afghanistan's Policharki
prison after four days of rioting allegedly sparked by al-Qaida and
Taliban convicts. 6 inmates were killed in the revolt.
   (AP, 3/1/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Algeria said it
will release more than 2,000 Islamist ex-fighters soon under an
amnesty to promote reconciliation after years of conflict in the
oil-exporting country.
   (Reuters, 3/2/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, British police
charged three suspects in the $92 million robbery at a cash depot in
southeastern England, the world's largest known peacetime theft.
   (AP, 3/1/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Actor Jack Wild
(53), who'd played the Artful Dodger in the 1968 film "Oliver!,"
died in Bedfordshire, England.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, China moved ahead
with 3 new internet address suffixes in the Chinese language, as
national variants to .cn, .com and .net.
   (Econ, 3/4/06, p.61)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Congolese army
soldiers fighting alongside U.N. peacekeepers against ethnic
militiamen mutinied and ransacked a UN camp in the east of the vast
country. Hundreds of peacekeepers and thousands of government troops
have fought for three days to dislodge militia fighters from the
town of Tchei in northeastern Ituri district, where ethnic violence
has killed 60,000 people since 1999.
   (Reuters, 3/1/06)(Reuters, 3/2/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, El Salvador became
the first Central American nation to join a regional free trade
agreement with the United States.
   (AP, 3/1/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Greek lawmakers
approved new legislation to lift a standing ban on cremation of the
dead.
   (AP, 3/1/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Two Haitian
security guards employed by the US Embassy were shot to death near
the American ambassador's official residence.
   (AP, 3/2/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In India tens of
thousands of Indians waving black and white flags and chanting
"Death to Bush!" rallied in New Delhi to protest a visit by
President Bush.
   (AP, 3/1/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Iraq a car bomb
near a traffic police office in a primarily Shiite neighborhood in
southeast Baghdad killed at least 23 people and wounded 58. A bomb
hidden under a car detonated as a police patrol passed near downtown
Tahrir Square. 3 civilians died and 15 were wounded. Mortar shells
fell on 3 houses in the mixed Sunni-Shiite town of Mahmoudiya, 20
miles south of Baghdad, killing 3 civilians. A fifth mortar shell
slammed into the mixed Qadisiyah neighborhood in west Baghdad,
killing a woman and wounding a child. At least 47 people were killed
as sectarian and insurgent killings continued.  Â
   (AP, 3/1/06)(WSJ, 3/2/06, p.A1)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, It was reported
that Japan was on the verge of a shift in monetary policy. An end to
a policy of easy money, begun in 2001 to spur spending, was expected
to have a major effect on global financial markets as interest rates
got forced up.
   (WSJ, 3/1/06, p.A1)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Inmates of Juweideh
prison released Jordan's top prison official along with a half-dozen
police officers they had taken hostage, ending a 14-hour riot in 3
prisons that broke out over the fate of two convicted al-Qaida
killers.
   (AP, 3/2/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Kosovo PM Bajram
Kosumi resigned, days after the start of crucial talks on whether
the province will gain full independence or remain part of Serbia.
   (AP, 3/2/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Security forces in
western Nepal found 29 bodies of soldiers and suspected rebels at
the site of a fierce clash. Five insurgents were reported killed in
an accidental explosion.
   (AP, 3/1/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Nigeria
militants released six foreign oil workers, including a diabetic
Texan celebrating his 69th birthday, taken captive last month to
press fighters' demands for a greater share of oil revenues
generated in this restive southern state.
   (AP, 3/1/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Pakistani security
forces backed by helicopter gunships struck a militant hide-out in a
tribal region near the Afghan border, killing 45 fighters, including
a Chechen commander linked to al-Qaida.
   (AP, 3/1/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Palestinian leaders
returned some $30 million of $46 million that the US donated
directly to the government and will send back the rest before the
militant Hamas organization takes over. The current government, led
by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' moderate Fatah Party, agreed
under US pressure to return about $46 million in unspent direct
donations. The Palestinian Authority gets about $1 billion of its
annual $1.9 billion budget from overseas donors, with European
nations the largest contributors.
   (AP, 3/2/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, An explosion in a
car in Gaza City killed rocket maker Khaled Dahdouh (45), Islamic
Jihad's top military commander in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli
military, which carries out pinpointed attacks against militants in
the coastal strip, said it was not involved. Palestinian militants
shot and killed a Jewish settler traveling on a road near the
settlement of Tapuah.
   (AP, 3/1/06)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Russia reported
that some 495,000 birds had died from H5N1 bird flu in regions near
the Caspian and Black seas since Feb 3.
   (SFC, 3/2/06, p.A6)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The US Department
of Defense notified Congress that it plans to sell Taiwan missiles
worth $421 million dollars.
   (AFP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The US Army general
in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center was relieved of command
after disclosures about dilapidated buildings and inadequate
treatment of wounded soldiers.
   (AP, 3/1/08)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, An independent
commission concluded the US National Guard and Reserves weren't
getting enough money or equipment.
   (AP, 3/1/08)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The US military
announced that it has sent home two Afghans and three Tajikistani
detainees at Guantanamo Bay, leaving fewer that 400 prisoners at the
naval base.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Deborah Palfrey
(1956-2008) of Vallejo, Ca., was indicted in Washington DC for
running a $2 million prostitution ring. She threatened to sell
detailed phone records of her clients to pay for her defense. At
least 132 women were employed by her firm in the Washington area
from 1993-2006. On April 15, 2008, Palfrey was convicted of
racketeering and other charges.
   (SFC, 3/3/07, p.B1)(SFC, 4/16/08, p.A2)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Paul Joyal (53), a
US expert on Russian intelligence, was hit several times as he
returned home in Washington DC. The shooting came four days after
Joyal alleged in a major television network interview that the
government of Russian President Vladimir Putin was involved in the
radiation poisoning of a former KGB agent in London.
   (AFP, 3/3/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A violent storm
system ripped apart an Alabama high school as students hunkered
inside and later tore through Georgia, hitting a hospital and
raising the death toll to at least 20 across the Midwest and
Southeast. Eight students died when a tornado struck Alabama’s
Enterprise High School.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, NASA said the
Cassini spacecraft has snapped never-before-seen images of Saturn
showing the planet from perspectives above and below its ring
system.
   (Reuters, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In western
Afghanistan a bomb targeting a provincial police chief's vehicle
killed two people and wounded 53. Authorities in Helmand province
found the bullet-riddled body of a kidnapped doctor.
   (AFP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Argentine President
Nestor Kirchner trumpeted his government's performance on the
economy and human rights during his state-of-the-nation address, and
also defended his ties to Venezuelan leftist Hugo Chavez. Argentina
under Kirchner had begun doctoring inflation statistics to keep them
in single digits while the true rate this year rose to around 25%.
The government was able to save some $500 million in payments on
bonds linked to the consumer price index, but destroyed its
credibility.
   (AP, 3/1/07)(Econ, 9/27/08, p.49)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Belarus dismissed
new financial sanctions imposed by the United States as politically
senseless. President Alexander Lukashenko said his country was ready
to normalize relations with Washington.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Belgian
firefighters clashed with police, trading barrages from water
cannons during a chaotic demonstration near the nation's parliament,
injuring six people. The firefighters sought better working
conditions, earlier retirement and better compensation when they are
injured.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Brazil Slovenian
Martin Strel approached the halfway point of his attempt to swim the
entire length of the Amazon river, trying to avoid severe burns,
alligators and the dreaded bloodsucking toothpick fish.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Britain confirmed
it will withdraw its more than 600 remaining troops from Bosnia as
concerns about security in the Balkan state ease.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Cynthia Carroll
(49), former head of Canada’s Alcan Primary Metal Group, replaced
Tony Trahar as CEO of Anglo American, the world’s 2nd biggest mining
conglomerate.
   (Econ, 6/30/07,
p.77)(www.miningmx.com/mining_fin/318860.htm)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Colombia a car
bomb exploded in the southern city of Neiva, injuring 8 people in an
apparent assassination attempt of the town's pro-government mayor by
leftist rebels.
   (AP, 3/2/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Denmark dozens
of people were arrested after angry protesters threw cobblestones at
police when an anti-terror squad started a disputed eviction of
squatters from a building in downtown Copenhagen.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In northern
Ethiopia 15 European tourists were kidnapped in the Afar desert. The
ARDUF has been fighting for years against Ethiopia and Eritrea over
lands inhabited by ethnic Afar.
   (AP, 3/2/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, EU officials
launched the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, an effort to stamp
out intolerance in the 27-nation bloc under a crush of immigrants.
   (SFC, 3/2/07, p.A14)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In France, Germany
and Spain workers at Airbus revolted against massive cutbacks,
planning a strike next week in a warning to the company that its
recovery strategy is in for a long, tough haul.
   (AFP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The environment
ministry in the state of Lower Saxony said a German man had obtained
enriched uranium and buried it in his garden, raising concerns about
the security of Germany's nuclear reactors.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, India’s government
approved a proposal to merge 4 state-owned air-carriers in order to
make them more competitive.
   (Econ, 3/10/07, p.59)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Surender Koli, an
Indian servant, confessed to killing and sexually assaulting at
least 19 children and women and stuffing their dismembered remains
into a storm drain outside the house where he worked.
   (AP, 3/2/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Iraq one person
killed in a roadside bomb in Baghdad. Up to 5 guests were killed and
10 injured when a car bomb exploded at a police officer’s wedding in
Fallujah. An American Marine was killed in combat in Anbar province.
   (AP, 3/1/07)(AP, 3/2/07)(SFC, 3/2/07, p.A8)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, PM Shinzo Abe said
there was no evidence Japan coerced Asian women into working as sex
slaves during World War II, backtracking from a landmark 1993
statement in which the government acknowledged that it set up and
ran brothels for its troops. A passenger train derailed in northern
Japan after slamming into a truck, leaving dozens injured including
25 high school students.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Avalanches and
landslides in Kashmir forced Indian security teams to airlift
thousands of people to safe areas, while at least eight Pakistani
soldiers were feared dead after they were buried under a snowslide
near the Afghan border.
   (AP, 3/2/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Morocco’s King
Mohammed VI pardoned 8,836 prisoners to celebrate the birth of his
baby girl. Princess Lalla Salma gave birth to a baby girl a day
earlier. The king also reduced the sentences of 24,218 other
prisoners.
   (AP, 3/3/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, North Korea's No. 2
leader pledged his country's commitment to giving up its nuclear
program amid intensifying diplomacy aimed at implementing
Pyongyang's pledge to disarm.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Paraguay declared a
state of emergency following a wave of dengue fever cases as
concerns over the mosquito-borne illness rise across Latin America.
Health officials have reported some 14,000 cases of the disease this
year, with four deaths.
   (AP, 3/2/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Peru church
bells rang and a sea of confetti fluttered through Lima's historical
central plaza at the stroke of noon, alerting Peruvians to
synchronize their watches at the start of a nationwide campaign to
promote punctuality.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Puerto Rico the
US attorney's office in San Juan announced that a US federal grand
jury indicted seven people in a case where terminally ill cancer
patients were allegedly injected with a bogus cure made from the
patients' own blood.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, President Vladimir
Putin nominated Ramzan Kadyrov, a widely feared security chief, as
the new president of Chechnya. Europe's human rights chief denounced
torture and other rampant abuses in the war-battered region.
Kadyrov, who previously had served as Chechnya's prime minister, has
run a security force that is accused of abducting and abusing
suspected rebels and civilians believed to be connected to them.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Senegal officials
said President Abdoulaye Wade received 56 percent of the vote to
avoid a runoff and easily win re-election in this West African
nation.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Singapore’s
American Chamber of Commerce said trade between Singapore and the
United States rose 19 percent in 2006 from the year before, the
second fastest growth rate among Washington's major trading
partners.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, An advance team of
an African peacekeeping force to Somalia arrived unannounced into
the country.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Zambia's Lands
Minister Gladys Nyirongo acknowledged at a major conference on graft
in Africa that "Corruption is everywhere, in the villages,
wherever." Hours later she was sacked. President Levy Mwanawasa
said: "She gave land to herself, her two daughters, her sons and her
husband."
   (AP, 3/4/07)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Zimbabwe's central
bank introduced two new bank notes as it battles a four figure rate
of inflation that is rapidly eroding the value of the local
currency. Zimbabwe state media reported that the government has
admitted that state agents are jamming radio broadcasts by foreign
stations deemed hostile to President Robert Mugabe's government.
   (AP, 3/1/07)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, It was reported
that 78% of Americans say they belong to the Christian tradition,
while 5% said they belong to other faiths.
   (Econ, 3/1/08, p.34)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Emory, Texas, a
teenage girl joined her boyfriend and two others to help kill her
mother and 2 brothers (8,13). Her parents had demanded that she
break up with her boyfriend. Terry Caffey, the father, survived with
5 shots.
   (SFC, 3/3/08, p.A4)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In eastern
Afghanistan a roadside bomb struck a tractor, killing three people,
including a woman and a child, and wounding seven others.
   (AP, 3/1/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Algerian troops
called in helicopters and assaulted a hideout with rockets and
helicopter fire, killing 25 members of an al-Qaida affiliate in
North Africa.
   (AP, 3/2/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Armenian police
forcefully dispersed a demonstration by several hundred opposition
supporters who had camped out in the capital for more than a week to
protest the results of presidential elections. The violent protests
left eight dead and more than 100 injured and prompted President
Robert Kocharian to declare a sweeping, 20-day state of emergency.
   (AP, 3/1/08)(AP, 3/2/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Australia up to
300,000 people lined Sydney's streets to watch the Gay and Lesbian
Mardi Gras, as the largest gay pride march in the Asia Pacific
region marked its 30th anniversary.
   (AP, 3/1/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, BHP Billiton,
Melbourne-based mining giant, said it plans to invest $975 million
to upgrade and expand its thermal coal mines in South Africa to
sustain coal exports amid soaring coal prices.
   (Reuters, 3/3/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Colombia's defense
minister said security forces killed Raul Reyes (59), a leading
commander of the FARC rebel group, in combat and air strikes in
neighboring Ecuador. Reyes was the nom de guerre of Luis Edgar
Devia. 23 other rebels were also killed and a laptop computer was
seized with documents indicating a close relationship between the
rebels and Venezuela’s Pres. Chavez. Colombia later acknowledged
that an Ecuadorean was killed during the raid. It was later reported
that a computer memory stick was acquired in the raid that held the
names, aliases and identity numbers of 9,387 rebels, including some
photos.
   (AP, 3/1/08)(AP, 3/5/08)(Econ, 3/8/08, p.43)(AP,
3/24/08)(AP, 9/25/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A violent storm
plagued parts of Europe and deaths rose to 10 after two people in
Poland were killed by falling objects because of hurricane-strength
winds. Germany reported 2 deaths, the Czech Rep. 2 deaths and 4 more
in Austria.
   (AP, 3/2/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Iraq 2 separate
attacks on buses of Shiites killed five people and wounded 11. The
US military said it had killed six insurgents and detained 13
suspects in the last 24 hours during operations against al-Qaida in
Iraq in central and northern Iraq.
   (AP, 3/1/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Nepal some 1,300
makeshift bamboo huts were destroyed at the Goldhap refugee camp
before the blaze was brought under control. The fire left estimated
10,000 refugees without shelter.
   (AP, 3/3/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Pakistan police
formally charged top Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud
with plotting the murder of Benazir Bhutto.
   (AP, 3/1/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Palestinians called
off peace talks with Israel after 33 Gazans, at least half of them
civilians, were killed in violence that escalated sharply during the
day. The death toll climbed as Israeli troops, backed by tanks and
aircraft, went after Palestinian militants who fired 40 rockets and
mortars at southern Israeli communities near Gaza. A total of 54
Palestinians, roughly half of them civilians, were killed in
fighting, the highest single-day death toll in more than seven years
of violence. Two Israeli soldiers also were killed.
   (AP, 3/1/08)(AP, 3/2/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In the Philippines
a bomb wounded two Filipino soldiers and four women at a bar near a
military camp on Jolo Island, where US troops were conducting
counterterrorism training.
   (AP, 3/2/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Spain thousands
of pro-hunting demonstrators blowing bugles and accompanied by
hunting dogs, thronged a boulevard in central Madrid to protest a
law restricting the use of lead shot.
   (AP, 3/1/08)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, At least 69 nomads
and nine soldiers were killed were killed in clashes with forces
from the ex-rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army in southern Sudan.
   (AFP, 3/2/08)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In eastern
Afghanistan a suicide car bomb blew up near US-led soldiers,
wounding six civilians outside Jalalabad. Attacks in Kandahar
province left seven security guards dead. The US-led coalition
killed four alleged militants in Kandahar.
   (AFP, 3/1/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Bangladeshi police
charged more than 1,000 border guards with murder and arson after a
bloody mutiny in the capital left as many as 148 people dead or
missing, most of them army officers.
   (AP, 3/1/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, China's lunar
probe, the Chang'e-1, named for a moon goddess, ended its
16-month life with a planned crash into the moon.
   (Reuters, 3/1/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Scores of Tibetan
monks in southwestern China marched in protest over the banning of a
prayer service, the latest incident in an apparent increase in acts
of defiance against Chinese rule ahead of sensitive anniversaries.
   (AP, 3/2/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Germany rejected
appeals for a single multibillion euro (dollar) bailout of eastern
Europe, even after Hungry begged EU leaders not to let a new "Iron
Curtain" divide the continent into rich and poor.
   (AP, 3/1/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, An adviser to
Iran's president demanded an apology from a team of visiting
Hollywood actors and movie industry officials, including Annette
Bening, saying films such as "300" and "The Wrestler" were
"insulting" to Iranians. The film "300," portrays the battle of
Thermopylae in 480 B.C., in which a force of 300 Spartans held off a
massive Persian army at a mountain pass in Greece for three days. It
angered many Iranians for the way Persians are depicted as decadent,
sexually flamboyant and evil in contrast to the noble Greeks.
   (AP, 3/1/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Iraq about 2,000
Shiites staged marches to protest the results of provincial
elections in tense Diyala province.
   (AP, 3/1/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Israel's attorney
general notified PM Ehud Olmert that he planned to indict him on
suspicion of illicitly taking cash-stuffed envelopes from a
Jewish-American businessman, a sensational case that turned public
opinion so sharply against the Israeli leader that he was forced to
resign.
   (AP, 3/1/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Officials said the
Malaysian government will issue a new decree restoring a ban on
Christian publications using the word "Allah" to refer to God.
   (AP, 3/1/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Mexican federal
police made two arrests and confiscated weapons and marijuana in
Tijuana, across the US border from San Diego, after coming under
attack by men linked to a drug cartel.
   (AP, 3/1/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In northwest
Pakistan at least eight people were killed in two suspected US
missile strikes in South Waziristan near to the border with
Afghanistan.
   (AFP, 3/1/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Tony Blair paid his
first visit to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip as envoy of international
peace brokers and said reconstruction aid after Israel's offensive
would not have a lasting effect without peace. Israel’s PM Ehud
Olmert threatened painful retaliation against Gaza militants for
rockets still hitting Israel, six weeks after its military halted an
offensive that was supposed to have stopped them for good.
   (Reuters, 3/1/09)(AP, 3/1/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Russia's ruling
party cemented its grip on elected posts with big victories in local
elections despite an economic crisis, but the opposition complained
of widespread cheating.
   (Reuters, 3/2/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Spain Basque
voters chose a new government. Socialists scored big electoral gains
at the expense of nationalists who have held power there for nearly
30 years. The nationalist coalition with 37 seats fell one seat
short of the needed majority.
   (AP, 3/1/09)(AP, 3/2/09)(SFC, 3/2/09, p.A2)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Sudan Riek
Machar, the vice president of the southern Sudan government, said
clashes last week between militia and local government troops in
Malakal killed at least 57 people and wounded nearly 100.
   (AP, 3/2/09)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Thailand
Southeast Asian leaders (ASEAN) vowed to push ahead with ambitious
plans to become a European Union-style economic community by 2015
despite roadblocks posed by the global financial crisis and
Myanmar's dismal human rights record.
   (AP, 3/1/09)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The US Department
of Transportation furloughed nearly 2,000 employees without pay as
the government began to feel the impact of Republican Sen. Jim
Bunning's one-man blockage of legislation that would keep a host of
federal programs operating. Bunning's home state of Kentucky has no
projects affected by his action. Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning
relented March 2, freeing the Senate to approve stopgap legislation
extending for another month a host of programs, including highway
funding, health insurance subsidies for the unemployed and benefits
for the long-term jobless.
   (http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/3439731)(AP,
3/3/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, General Motors Co.
said it is recalling 1.3 million Chevrolet and Pontiac compact cars
sold in the US, Canada and Mexico to fix power steering motors that
can fail.
   (AP, 3/2/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Detroit, Mi.,
Monica Botello (26) and her boyfriend Purcell Carson (26) were shot
to death in a slaying that was reported to a 911 dispatcher by
Botello’s daughter (9). On March 20 US marshals arrested Derrick
Smith (42) in Gardena, Ca., for the murders.
   (SSFC, 3/21/10, p.A9)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Afghanistan
announced a ban on news coverage of Taliban strikes, saying such
coverage only emboldened the Islamist militants. The move was
denounced by Afghan journalism and rights groups. Two blasts hours
apart killed at least six people in Kandahar. Four NATO service
members died in separate attacks, including a suicide car bomb that
targeted an international military convey as it crossed a bridge in
the Taliban-dominated south.
   (AP, 3/1/10)(AFP, 3/1/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Australia about
5,200 naked people embraced each other on the steps of Sydney's
iconic Opera House for a photo shoot by Spencer Tunick.
   (AP, 3/1/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Daniel Houghton
(25), a former MI6 spy, was arrested after British intelligence
posed as the potential buyer of top secret files on intelligence
gathering techniques. Prosecutor Piers Arnold later said Houghton,
who is a dual Dutch and British national, is accused of copying top
secret files from the domestic agency MI5 to CD and DVDs while
working for the MI6 overseas intelligence service between September
2007 and May 2009. On Sep 3, 2010, Houghton was sentenced to one
year in prison. He was expected to walk free as he has already spent
184 days in custody.
   (AP, 3/3/10)(AFP, 9/3/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, British insurer
Prudential PLC said it will buy the Asian unit of bailed out
American International Group Inc. in a deal worth $35.5 billion that
will allow AIG to pay back some of the money it owes US taxpayers.
   (AP, 3/1/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In China 11
newspapers took a rare stand against a Mao Zedong-era system blamed
for the wide gap between the country's rich and poor. Within hours
their jointly signed editorial had largely disappeared online. 11
newspapers published a joint editorial calling on the National
People’s Congress (NPC) to scrap the hukou system, which was
originally intended to stop rural migrants flowing into the cities.
   (AP, 3/2/10)(Econ, 5/8/10, p.26)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In China Toyota
President Akio Toyoda apologized in Beijing to Chinese customers for
the company's quality problems and emphasized the importance of the
fast-growing market to his company.
   (AP, 3/1/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Chinese rescuers
worked to save 31 coal miners trapped underground by a flood at the
Luotoushan, or Camel Head Mountain, coal mine in Wuhai city in
northern Inner Mongolia. One miner was reported killed. On May 2
state news agency Xinhua reported that emergency workers have
recovered 28 bodies from the mine in China's Inner Mongolia region
that flooded in early-March. 3 people were still missing.
   (AP, 3/1/10)(AP, 3/2/10)(AFP, 5/2/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The European Union
urged Greece to take extra austerity measures within days to tackle
a debt crisis that has shaken the euro zone and promised to help
Athens overcome the problem.
   (Reuters, 3/1/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, France and Russia
pursued their burgeoning courtship with a formal state visit by
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to Paris, which is angling to sell
Moscow a massive warship and secure stakes in pipelines pumping
Russian gas to western Europe.
   (AP, 3/1/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Georgia and Russia
reopened their only direct border crossing, more than three years
after it was closed amid rising tension that erupted into war in
2008.
   (AP, 3/1/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In southern India
nearly 3000 Muslims protested a newspaper article they say was
critical of Islam, clashing with police and leaving at least two
people dead and dozens injured in Shimoga, Karnataka state.
   (AP, 3/2/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Iran editor
Behrouz Behzadi of the Etemaad daily said his newspaper was banned
by the Press Supervisory Board. The order cited article six of the
press law without elaborating. That article allows newspapers to be
closed for offenses from security violations to insulting articles.
A weekly called Irandokht was also closed down. One of its editors
was arrested last month. Iranian media said six journalists and
opposition activists held for suspected involvement in the country's
postelection turmoil have been released on bail. Jafar Panahi (49),
an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, was taken into custody along
with another person who was in his company. Panahi was released on
bail on May 25. In December Panahi was sentenced to 6 years in
prison and barred from making films or participating in political
activities for two decades.
   (AP, 3/1/10)(AP, 3/2/10)(AP, 5/25/10)(SFC,
12/21/10, p.A2)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Niger coup chief
Maj. Salou Djibou signed a decree appointing 20 ministers. Five of
the posts went to women and five to officers.
   (AP, 3/2/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Nigeria a
spokesman said police detained 17 officers over the weekend for
questioning after the Al-Jazeera news channel aired a video on Feb 9
showing uniformed men executing people in Boko Haram town where
religious rioting left 700 people dead last year. Gunmen attacked a
van carrying 21 people working for the network's SuperSport channels
after the crew filmed a soccer match in the Niger Delta. One of
three kidnapped sports journalists escaped his captors.
   (AP, 3/1/10)(AP, 3/4/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Pakistani militants
attacked a tanker carrying fuel to NATO and US forces in
Afghanistan. One insurgent was killed and the tanker was destroyed.
   (AP, 3/1/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A World Food
Program spokesman militants in Somalia are preventing food from
reaching more than 366,000 people who need it, following a statement
by Islamists that aid agencies were helping "apostates" in the
war-ravaged Horn of Africa nation.
   (AP, 3/1/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Somali pirates
hijacked a Saudi tanker in the Gulf of Aden. The Al Nisr Al Saudi
usually carried fuel oil but was empty when it was taken with 14
crew onboard. NATO said one of its destroyers sank a pirate
mothership off the Somali coast. Pirate crew members were
transferred to a smaller boat and allowed to return to the mainland.
   (AP, 3/3/10)(SFC, 3/2/10, p.A2)(SFC, 3/4/10,
p.A2)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Ukraine’s Pres.
Viktor Yanukovych visited Brussels saying "Our priorities will
include integration into the European Union, bringing up
constructive relations with the Russian Federation, and developing
friendly relations with strategic partners such as the United
States."
   (AP, 3/1/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A Yemen government
raid left Ali Saleh al-Hadi, a southern activist, his wife and three
children dead during an ongoing crackdown on southern separatists.
   (AP, 3/1/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A UN source said
hundreds of civilians were feared to have died last week in a surge
of fighting between the Sudanese army and rebels in the turbulent
Darfur region.
   (Reuters, 3/1/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A Russian human
rights group said the government of Uzbekistan has falsely accused
about 200 people of killing officials and plotting a coup in the
authoritarian Central Asian nation.
   (AP, 3/1/10)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Uruguay Jose
Mujica (74) took the presidential oath of office.
   (SFC, 3/2/10, p.A2)
2010Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Zimbabwe a new
law took effect, giving companies valued at more than 500,000 US
dollars 45 days to inform the government of the racial make-up of
their shareholders. The main labor body said the new law,
requiring locals to own 51 percent of major foreign firms, could
hurt the nation's economic recovery.
   (AFP, 3/1/10)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, US Immigration and
Customs Enforcement said federal agents working with state and local
authorities have arrested 678 people in 168 cities from December to
February. It was part of a 5-year effort aimed at street gangs with
ties to Mexican drug cartels and other drug traffickers.
   (SFC, 3/1/11, p.A4)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Afghanistan an
insurgent attack killed a NATO service member in the south.Â
Residents in Ghazni burned blankets, clothing and other items that
they said coalition troops had distributed in the city a day
earlier. 9 young children died in a NATO strike as they collected
firewood in Darah-Ye Pech district of northeastern Kunar province.
The incident happened after an insurgent rocket attack on a military
base prompted coalition forces to return fire.
   (AP, 3/1/11)(AP, 3/2/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, China told
journalists they must "cooperate" with police and respect the
country's laws, after several foreign reporters were roughed up in a
crackdown on calls for anti-government rallies. The government
blamed foreign reporters for a weekend ruckus with police who tried
to prevent them covering a planned protest in Beijing, as rights
groups slammed China for curtailing press freedoms.
   (AFP, 3/1/11)(Reuters, 3/1/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, China’s National
Museum in Beijing re-opened following a nearly 4-year refurbishment
that cost some 2.5 billion yuan.
  Â
(http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-03/01/c_13755545.htm)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Colombia over a
dozen attackers firing assault rifles killed four police officers
and two other people in robbing a cash shipment that had just
arrived by helicopter in the southwestern city of Caloto. Presumed
rebels killed a soldier and a civilian motorcycle rider in an attack
on a military checkpoint just minutes before a convoy carrying US
and UN officials passed by in the Uraba region of Antioquia.
   (AP, 3/1/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The European Court
of Justice said insurers must stop setting prices based on gender,
in a move that could raise costs for women drivers, cut male
pensions, and prompt more legal challenges to insurance pricing
practices.
   (Reuters, 3/1/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, French fashion
house Christian Dior said John Galliano has been immediately laid
off, just days after he was suspended as its creative director
pending an investigation into an alleged anti-Semitic incident in a
Paris cafe last week.
   (AP, 3/1/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, German Defense
Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigned after admitting to
copying part of a doctoral dissertation, stunning Angela Merkel and
depriving her conservatives of their brightest star.
   (Reuters, 3/1/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Volkswagen showed a
concept version of its iconic microbus van, known by its German
nickname, the Bulli, at the Geneva Auto Show. Among the six-seater's
modern twists: It's powered by an electric motor and uses an iPad to
control the entertainment system, climate control and other
functions.
   (AP, 3/1/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Iran's security
forces fired teargas and clashed with opposition supporters in
Tehran, where demonstrators rallied to demand the release of two
opposition leaders. The opposition said at least 79 people were
arrested at the protest rallies, which the government denied had
taken place at all. Iranian diplomat Ahmed Maleki, who defected last
month, said that Iran's leaders would rather "slaughter" their own
people than surrender power to any popular revolt inspired by
uprisings across the Arab world.
   (Reuters, 3/1/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Suspected Jewish
settlers smashed the windows of 7 Palestinian cars and threw a fire
bomb at a Palestinian house in the West Bank.
   (AP, 3/1/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi dispatched forces to a western border area in
defiance of Western military and economic pressure. Residents of
Zawiya, the rebel-held city closest to Tripoli, passed out sweets
and cold drinks to fighters and celebrated with a victory march
after they managed to repel an overnight attack by forces loyal to
Gadhafi. At least 1,000 people were feared dead in the bloody
crackdown on anti-government protesters.
   (Reuters, 3/1/11)(AP, 3/1/11)(AFP, 3/1/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The UN refugee
agency said that the situation on Libya's border with Tunisia is
reaching a crisis point after 70,000 to 75,000 people fled from the
violence in Libya since February 20.
   (AFP, 3/1/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Malta said it was
refusing to return two Libyan fighter jets that landed on the island
last week after their pilots defected.
   (AP, 3/1/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Mexican soldiers
and police rescued former Tierra Blanca mayor Alfredo Osorio from
kidnappers in eastern Mexico. He had been kidnapped a day earlier. A
search continued for Tampico Alto Mayor Saturnino Valdes, kidnapped
on Feb 23. Soldiers unearthed 17 bodies buried in two clandestine
graves in the southern state of Guerrero and authorities said they
were searching for more. Police found four bodies dumped along a
highway connecting Acapulco to Mexico City. Another four people,
including a couple shot to death inside the hotel they managed in
the coastal town of Atoyac de Alvarez, were killed in three separate
attacks in Guerrero. In Tamaulipas state Mexican marines killed
eight gunmen. Gunmen in Michoacan state killed Tanhuato police chief
Jose Gomez.
   (AP, 3/2/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Oman deployed
troops north of the capital Muscat and near the border with the
United Arab Emirates, following three straight days of
anti-government protests.
   (AP, 3/1/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Pakistan hiked oil
prices by 9.9%, a move that threatens the stability of the fragile,
US-allied civilian government at a time of economic turmoil in the
impoverished country.
   (AP, 3/1/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Spain announced it
had narrowly beaten its target for slashing the public deficit in
2010, critical to the eurozone's fourth largest economy regaining
confidence in world financial markets.
   (AFP, 3/1/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Spanish police
arrested four suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group
ETA they believe may have been behind several attacks in recent
years.
   (AP, 3/1/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Swedish carmaker
SAAB, now owned by Spyker Cars, showed off its new PhoeniX prototype
at the Geneva motor show.
   (Econ, 4/9/11, p.72)(http://tinyurl.com/3bmnxnx)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Sudan fresh
clashes broke out in the Abyei region between gunmen from the
northern-supported nomadic Arab Misseriya people and local the Ngok
Dinka tribe, who backed the south.
   (AP, 3/2/11)(Econ, 5/28/11, p.54)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Taiwan and China
have cooperated as Taiwan’s coast guard personnel rescued a
businessman, surnamed Hsia (40), on an uninhabited Taiwanese islet
after his kidnappers deposited him there. He was kidnapped in the
southern Chinese city of Guangzhou in early January and held for a
$3.3 million ransom.
   (AP, 3/2/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The UN General
Assembly suspended Libya from its top human rights body as
governments worldwide pressured Moammar Gadhafi to halt the deadly
crackdown on his people. It is the first time any country has been
suspended from the 47-member council since it was formed in 2006.
   (AP, 3/2/11)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The UN Refugee
Agency said the Uganda-based Lord’s Resistance Army has killed 35
people and displaced over 1700 since January.
   (SFC, 3/2/11, p.A2)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Yemen's embattled
US-backed Pres. Ali Abdullah Saleh accused Washington of instigating
protests against his regime, as hundreds of thousands marched in
cities across Yemen in the largest rallies yet seeking the longtime
ruler's ouster. Saleh sacked the governors of five provinces where
anti-regime protests have been raging for more than a month. Abdul
Majid al-Zindani, a radical cleric and opposition figure, joined the
protests.
   (AP, 3/1/11)(AFP, 3/1/11)(Econ, 3/5/11, p.53)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Zimbabwean police
and troops put on a show of force in the capital amid calls for
protests against Pres. Mugabe, the longtime authoritarian ruler.
   (AP, 3/1/11)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A US Coast Guard
helicopter crashed in Mobile Bay near Point Clear, Alabama. 4 crew
members were killed and one remained missing.
   (SFC, 3/3/12, p.A5)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Maryland Gov.
Martin O’Malley signed into a law a bill to legalize same-sex
marriage.
   (SFC, 3/2/12, p.A8)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Ohio an adoptive
father was charged with raping three boys in his care and compelling
prostitution by hiring the 10-year-old out for sex. He and two other
men remained in jail on rape charges.
   (AP, 3/1/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Andrew Breitbart
(43), outspoken conservative writer, activist and website operator
(Breitbart News), died unexpectedly in Los Angeles.
   (AP, 3/1/12)(Econ, 10/15/16, p.64)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Afghan 2
American soldiers were killed by Afghan colleagues in Kandahar
province, the latest in a series of such attacks after the burning
of the Koran at a US base sparked widespread violent protests.
   (AFP, 3/1/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Bolivia at least
30 people were injured following two day of fighting between two
communities over land for growing quinoa, the Andean "supergrain"
whose popularity with worldwide foodies has caused its price to
soar. The combatants in Oruro state reportedly used rocks and
dynamite against each other.
   (AP, 3/3/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Britain’s Financial
Services Authority (FSA) regulator said 3 people have been arrested
and are being held in custody in relation to an insider-dealing
investigation.
   (Reuters, 3/1/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, British police
investigating the bribing of public officials by journalists
arrested Virginia Wheeler (32), the defense editor of Rupert
Murdoch's British tabloid The Sun, on suspicion of corruption.
   (AFP, 3/1/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Chinese state press
said Chen Quanguo, China’s top leader in Tibet, has ordered
increased controls over the Internet and mobile phones, ahead of
upcoming sensitive anniversaries in the restive region.
   (AFP, 3/1/12)   Â
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The European Union
formally granted Serbia the status of a candidate for membership in
the bloc during their summit in recognition of its government's
efforts to round up war crimes suspects and normalize relations with
Kosovo, its former province.
   (AP, 3/1/12)(http://tinyurl.com/7scyr3k)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The International
Criminal Court said it has issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese
Defense Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein (60) for crimes against
the civilian population in Darfur.
   (AFP, 3/1/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Iraq American
gym teacher Jeremiah Small was shot and killed at a school in
Sulaimaniyah in the northern Kurdish region. Student Biyar Sarwar
(18) pulled out a gun and shot the teacher. Sarwar shot and killed
himself as his terrified classmates fled the room.
   (AP, 3/1/12)(SFC, 3/2/12, p.A2)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Malaysia Dominic
Jude Christopher Bird (32), a truck driver Perth, Western Australia,
was arrested in Kuala Lumpur in possession of 225 grams (7.9 ounces)
of methamphetamine. He faced a possible death sentence.
   (AFP, 3/5/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Supporters of
Maldives' former president prevented the country's new leader from
opening Parliament and protested in the streets, three weeks after
he took office in a contentious power transfer.
   (AP, 3/1/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Nigeria gunmen
shot and killed the four policemen as they were patrolling waterways
in Bayelsa. The armed militant group MEND soon claimed
responsibility.
   (AFP, 3/2/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Philippines
Bureau of Internal Revenue filed a complaint after boxer Manny
Pacquiao failed to submit tax documents despite three notices and a
subpoena.
   (AP, 3/8/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In the Philippines
Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebel leader Mohagher Iqbal said that
the three commanders on southern Basilan island were suspended for
three months after an investigation by Malaysian-led peace monitors
found they violated a cease-fire accord with the government. The
commanders involved in an October clash that killed 19 soldiers and
endangered a years-long cease-fire.
   (AP, 3/1/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Russia's top
investigative agency said it has launched a probe regarding videos
that have shown up on Internet purporting to show fraud taking place
during the country's presidential election, even though it hasn't
taken place yet.
   (AP, 3/1/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Rwandan opposition
leader Charles Ntakirutinka vowed to remain critical President Paul
Kagame's government as he walked free at the end of a 10-year prison
sentence for incitement.
   (AFP, 3/1/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In South Africa
fiery youth leader Julius Malema vowed to keep fighting after the
ruling ANC expelled him in a dramatic move seen as clearing an
obstacle to President Jacob Zuma's reelection.
   (AFP, 3/1/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, South Sudan
officials said Sudanese fighter jets have bombed oil and water wells
deep inside South Sudan and its ground troops have crossed into
contested oil-rich border regions. Khartoum swiftly denied the
claims.
   (AFP, 3/1/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Syrian rebels
retreated from the Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs that they had held
for months, saying they were running out of weapons and humanitarian
conditions were catastrophic after almost four weeks of government
bombardment.
   (AP, 3/1/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The opposition
Syrian National Council said it wanted to organize weapons
deliveries to Syrian rebels and was uniting armed factions fighting
against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Kuwait's parliament
joined the call for arming the rebels, adopting a non-binding
resolution urging the oil-rich Gulf state to supply weapons to the
opposition and to sever diplomatic ties with Damascus.
   (AFP, 3/1/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Members of the UN
Human Rights Council voted 37 in favor and three against a
resolution proposed by Turkey that calls on Syria to immediately
stop all attacks on civilians and grant unhindered access to aid
groups. Russia, China and Cuba objected to the resolution.
   (AP, 3/1/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Hundreds of Yemeni
soldiers staged protests at several military institutions across the
country demanding the departure of their chiefs, whom they accuse of
corruption.
   (AFP, 3/1/12)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Pres. Obama signed
an order that started putting mandatory spending cuts (the
sequester) into effect. The sequester was originally designed to
slice $1.2 trillion from spending over a decade.
   (Reuters, 3/2/13)(Econ, 3/2/13, p.27)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The SpaceX
commercial craft ran into thruster trouble shortly after liftoff.
The Dragon capsule bound at the Int’l. Space Station arrived on
March 3 delivering a ton of supplies.
   (SFC, 3/2/13, p.A4)(SFC, 3/4/13, p.A5)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Santa Clara
County, Ca., supervisor George Shirakawa Jr. (51) said he was
resigning after prosecutors filed felony charges alleging he stole
public money and nearly $100,000 in campaign contributions to
finance a gambling habit.
   (SFC, 3/2/13, p.C1)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Seffner,
Florida, a massive sinkhole swallowed Jeffrey Bush (37) as the hole
opened under his bedroom. His body was never recovered Five others
in the house were unharmed. In 2015 another sinkhole opened in the
same location.
   (SFC, 3/2/13, p.A4)(SFC, 8/20/15, p.A5)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Argentina’s Pres.
Cristina Fernandez authorized a compromise offer of a new debt swap
to comply with a $1.3 billion cash judgment to resolve debts unpaid
for over a decade. A NY court ordered Argentina to explain how it
would issue new bonds rather than comply with the order for cash
payment.
   (SFC, 3/2/13, p.A2)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A senior Bahrain
prosecutor said an appeals court has overturned the acquittal and
sentenced the daughter of a jailed opposition leader to three months
in prison. Zainab al-Khawaja was convicted of insulting a public
employee.
   (AP, 3/1/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Bangladesh
protesters clashed for a 2nd day as the death toll rose to 44 in
violence triggered by a death sentence given to Delwar Hossain
Sayedee, a top leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party.
   (SFC, 3/2/13, p.A2)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Britain’s Food
Standards Agency said traces of horse meat has been found in ground
beef sold by Taco Bell, which has only three British outlets. Horse
DNA also was found in Birds Eye spaghetti Bolognese and beef lasagna
and spicy minced beef skewers from catering supplier Brakes.
   (AP, 3/1/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Andrey Borodin
(45), former head of Russia's fifth largest bank, told a Russian
newspaper his application for asylum has been granted in Britain
after an application by his lawyers on the grounds that he faced
political persecution in Russia. Borodin fled Russia in March, 2011.
   (Reuters, 3/1/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Chadian President
Idriss Deby announced that government troops fighting to dislodge an
al-Qaida affiliate in northern Mali killed one of the group's
leading commanders, Abdelhamid Abou Zeid. On March 23 France
confirmed Zeid’s death and said he was killed in operations in the
Adrar des Ifoghas mountains in northern Mali in late February.
   (AP, 3/1/13)(AP, 3/23/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, China’s State
Council spelled out fresh curbs on property speculation, sending the
housing market into a tizzy.
   (Econ, 3/9/13, p.74)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, China executed four
foreigners for killing 13 Chinese sailors in an attack on the Mekong
River on Oct 5, 2011, following a live nationwide broadcast showing
them being led to their deaths.
   (AP, 3/1/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Fighting erupted in
eastern Congo between two factions of the M23 rebel group. An
estimated 23 people died in the fighting, according to an officer
with the main part of M23. The Congolese army entered Kiwanja, a
town that was run by M23 rebels for more than six months. Doctors
Without Borders said that more than 55 civilians have been killed in
fighting in another town in Congo's east, Kitchanga, where 135
people have been wounded.
   (AP, 3/1/13)(AP, 3/2/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In EgyptÂ
dozens of Muslim residents threw firebombs and rocks at police as
they tried to storm a church in southern Egypt in search of a woman
suspected of converting to Christianity in the town of Kom Ombo.
Tensions rose after a 36 year-old Muslim woman, who has been missing
for five days, was allegedly seen outside the church with a female
Christian friend a day earlier.
   (AP, 3/1/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Iraq's Sunni
Finance Minister Rafia al-Issawi announced during a protest in the
western city of Ramadi that he will resign from the government,
heightening the country's political crisis. 2 car bombs struck a
livestock market south of Baghdad, killing five and wounding dozens
in Diawaniyah.
   (AP, 3/1/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Israel Abraham
Kabeto Ketla of Ethiopia won the third Jerusalem marathon, setting a
record for the race. About 20,000 runners took part despite protests
by Palestinians.
   (AP, 3/1/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Japan US Seaman
Christopher Browning (24), of Athens, Texas, and Petty Officer 3rd
Class Skyler Dozierwalker (23), of Muskogee, Oklahoma, were found
guilty by the Naha District Court of raping and robbing a woman in
her 20s in a parking lot in October. Both admitted committing the
crime. Browning was sentenced to 10 years and Dozierwalker received
nine years.
   (AP, 3/1/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Ethnic Macedonians
kicked off the protests in Skopje, angry at the appointment of an
ethnic Albanian defense minister, a former rebel commander during
the 2001 conflict that pitted the country's two main ethnic groups
against each other.
   (AP, 3/3/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In eastern Malaysia
14 people were killed in a shootout as authorities tried to end a
three-week standoff with about 200 members of a Filipino clan
occupying a village in Sabah state.
   (AP, 3/1/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A Dutch court
convicted Yvonne Basebya (66), a Rwandan-born Dutch woman, of
inciting genocide in Rwanda's 1994 mass murders of ethnic Tutsis by
members of the Hutu tribe — the first conviction of a Dutch citizen
for the crime. She was sentenced to six years and eight months in
prison for her role.
   (AP, 3/1/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Ending his
unexpected round of basketball diplomacy in North Korea, ex-NBA star
Dennis Rodman called leader Kim Jong Un an "awesome guy" and said
his father and grandfather were "great leaders."
   (AP, 3/1/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In southwest
Pakistan gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed reporter Mahmood
Ahmed Afridi as he walked to a press club in the town of Kalat.
   (AP, 3/1/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Palestinians
clashed with Israeli troops during rallies across the West Bank in
support of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners and against
Israel's security barrier.
   (AP, 3/1/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Ayman Abu-Sufian
(40) a Palestinian man, died in Palestinian custody in the West Bank
two days after being detained on assault charges. Authorities there
launched an investigation.
   (AP, 3/2/13)(SSFC, 3/3/13, p.A5)
2013      Mar 1, In Poland
Lech Walesa said in a television interview that he believes gays
have no right to sit on the front benches in Parliament and, if
represented at all, should sit in the back, "and even behind a
wall."
   (AP, 3/3/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Somalia a
suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a seaside restaurant in
Mogadishu, killing himself and one diner. A car bomb was also
remotely detonated at the restaurant's gates.
   (AP, 3/1/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Spanish
government said it will challenge a recent declaration by lawmakers
in Catalonia that the region is a sovereign entity.
   (AP, 3/1/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The chief of Syrian
rebel forces said that his fighters are in "desperate" need of
weapons and ammunition rather than the food supplies and bandages
that the US now plans to provide. Government forces fought fierce
clashes with rebels attacking a police academy near Aleppo, while
the bodies of 10 men — most of them shot in the head — were found
dumped along the side of a road outside Damascus. State news said
that government troops defending the school had killed dozens of
opposition fighters and destroyed five rebel vehicles.
   (AP, 3/1/13)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Nevada a US
fighter jet crashed during a training exercise because of a snow
storm in mountainous terrain. The pilot was later identified as
Marine Capt. Reid Nannen (32).
   (SFC, 3/3/14, p.A6)(SFC, 3/10/14, p.A6)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The International
Monetary Fund (IMF) said it has agreed to provide a 331 million
euros ($457 million) loan over three years to support Albania's
economic reforms.
   (AP, 3/1/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Algerian police
used clubs to break up a small demonstration by some opposed to
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's decision to run for a fourth term
in elections next month. The Algerian army shot dead an Islamist in
a mountainous region east of Algiers in an area between Tizi-Ouzou
and Boumerdes.
   (AP, 3/1/14)(AFP, 3/2/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In southwestern
China a group of knife-wielding men attacked the Kunming Railway
Station in Yunnan province. The rampage killed 31 people and wounded
141. Police fatally shot four of the assailants, putting the overall
death toll at 33. Xinjiang separatist forces were blamed. The
Ministry of Public Security later said a "terrorist gang" of six men
and two women led by a person identified as Abdurehim Kurban was
responsible for the attack. 4 attackers were killed and 4 faced
death sentences.
   (AP, 3/1/14)(AP, 3/2/14)(AP, 3/3/14)(Reuters,
3/29/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In China a crash in
the Yanhou Tunnel in Shaanxi province involved more than 40
vehicles, including those carrying hazardous materials. At least 31
people were killed and a resulting fire burned for three days.
   (AP, 3/13/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Egypt the
youngest son of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi was
detained by police on suspicion of drug possession.
   (AP, 3/1/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, French filmmaker
Alain Resnais (91) died. His cryptic "Last Year at Marianbad" (1961)
extended its influence across generations. His films included the
acclaimed "Hiroshima Mon Amour" (1959) and most recently "Life of
Riley," honored at the Berlin Film Festival just weeks ago.
   (AP, 3/2/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Israeli troops
close to the border shot dead Amena Atiyyeh Qdeih (57), a mentally
ill Gazan woman, near to the southern city of Khan Yunis.
   (AFP, 3/1/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Hundreds rallied in
Tokyo to protest Japanese prosecutors' decision to drop charges over
the Fukushima nuclear crisis, with no one yet punished nearly three
years after the "man-made" disaster.
   (AFP, 3/1/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Japan pledged more
than $200 million in aid to help the Palestinian Authority, as
representatives in Indonesia from 22 nations reiterated their
support of the Palestinians' quest for their own state.
   (AP, 3/1/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb, In the Netherlands
the Allard Pierson museum opened the "Crimea — Gold and secrets of
the Black Sea" exhibition. In April curators said they are not sure
where to return the objects on display when it ends in August due to
Russia’s takeover of Crimea.
   (AP, 4/4/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Nigeria twin car
bombs at a bustling city marketplace in Maiduguri blasted buildings
to rubble and tore apart bodies. An attack on the Mainok farming
village razed every thatched-roof hut and left at least 51 dead.
Over 100 people were reported altogether.
   (AP, 3/2/14)(SFC, 3/3/14, p.A4)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In northwest
Pakistan militants killed 12 members of the security escort for a
polio vaccination team, detonating a roadside bomb before opening
fire on their convoy. In western Baluchistan province a roadside
bomb killed 3 members of a government paramilitary force in Sorab.
Shortly afterwards, the paramilitary Frontier Corps announced it had
killed 10 men in Sui, 300 km southeast of Quetta.
   (Reuters, 3/1/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Pakistani
Taliban announced that the group will observe a one-month cease-fire
as part of efforts to negotiate a peace deal with the government,
throwing new life into a foundering peace process.
   (AP, 3/1/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Russia's parliament
granted Pres. Vladimir Putin permission to use the country's
military in Ukraine and also recommended that Moscow's ambassador be
recalled from Washington over comments made by Pres. Obama.
Ukrainian PM Arseny Yatsenyuk opened a Cabinet meeting in Kiev by
calling on Russia not to provoke discord in Crimea.
   (AP, 3/1/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Sergei Aksyonov,
the pro-Russian prime minister of Ukraine's Crimea region, claimed
control of the military and police there and appealed to Russia's
President Vladimir Putin for help in keeping peace.
   (AP, 3/1/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Spain armed
Basque separatist group ETA pledged to give up all its weapons but
warned the government that any attack or obstacle could impact
negatively on the disarmament process.
   (Reuters, 3/1/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In northwest Syria
government airstrikes killed at least 13 people in Kfar Takharim,
Idlib province.
   (AP, 3/2/14)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Ukraine's Pres.
Viktor Yanukovich sent a letter to Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin,
asking him to use Russian army and police forces to restore order in
Ukraine.
   (Reuters, 1/24/19)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, It was reported
that US immigration officials are moving to deport at least 150
Bosnians suspected of taking part in war crimes and ethnic cleansing
during the 1992-1995 war that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia.
   (SSFC, 3/1/15, p.A7)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Police in Los
Angeles shot and killed a homeless man who reportedly had reached
for an officer’s gun during a struggle. Charly Keundeu Keunang (43)
was later identified as a native of Cameroon. In the 1990s French
officials had gave him a passport under what turned out to be a
stolen name, Charley Saturin Robinet. In 2016 prosecutors said three
police officers will not face criminal charges. In 2018 the Keunang
family settled a civil suit for $1.9 million.Â
   (AP, 3/6/15)(SFC, 12/2/16, p.A6)(SFC, 5/12/18,
p.A5)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Orrin Keepnews,
celebrated jazz record producer, died at his home in El Cerrito, Ca.
   (SFC, 3/2/15, p.C5)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In North Carolina
three armed robbers stole $4.8 million in gold bars from an armored
truck on I-95 in Wilson County. On March 2, 2016, the FBI arrested
Adalberto Perez (46) at his home in South Florida for his role in
the robbery.
   (SFC, 3/3/15, p.A6)(SFC, 3/5/15, p.A5)(SFC,
3/3/16, p.A4)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Seattle, Wa.,
transit system began pricing tickets based on passengers’ income.
   (SSFC, 3/1/15, p.A8)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Egypt's army said
at least 172 militants were killed in February in joint police and
military operations in the restive Sinai.
   (AFP, 3/1/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Estonians voted for
a new parliament in an election dominated by economic issues and
security concerns due to Russia's actions in Ukraine. PM Taavi
Roivas’ pro-Western Reform party won the election, but lost seven
seats giving it 45 seats in the 101-seat parliament. Roivas quickly
ruled out cooperating with the pro-Russian Center Party and planned
to form a coalition with his current partner, the Social Democrats.
   (AP, 3/1/15)(SFC, 3/3/15, p.A2)(Econ., 3/7/15,
p.52)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In France 15 pieces
of art were stolen from the Chinese Museum at Fontainebleau Castle.
   (SFC, 3/2/15, p.A2)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Guyana's foreign
affairs ministry said that Caracas objects to plans for an
exploratory well to be drilled in an area it contends is within
Guyana's territorial waters.
   (AP, 3/1/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Hong Kong police
arrested 33 people after scuffles broke out at a protest in a border
town, in the latest example of heightened tensions over the growing
influx of mainland Chinese shoppers in the city.
   (AP, 3/1/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, India's ruling
Hindu nationalist party formed a coalition government in Kashmir,
marking the first time it will hold a leadership position in the
disputed Muslim-majority region.
   (AP, 3/1/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A first Iranian
flight landed in the Yemeni capital, a day after officials from the
Shiite militia-controlled city signed an aviation agreement with
Tehran. The plane delivered medical and other supplies to Sanaa.
   (AFP, 3/1/15)(SFC, 3/2/15, p.A4)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Iraq and Syria a
US-led coalition launched 9 air strikes including seven in Iraq and
two in Syria against Islamic State militants over the last 24 hours.
   (Reuters, 3/1/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Malian
government signed a peace agreement with some northern armed groups
in Algiers but the main Tuareg rebel alliance asked for more time to
consult its grassroots.
   (AFP, 3/1/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In northeastern
Nigeria a crowd beat to death a teenage girl accused of planning to
be a suicide bomber and then set her body ablaze. A second suspect,
also a teenage girl, was arrested at Muda Lawal, the biggest market
in Bauchi city.
   (AP, 3/1/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Tens of thousands
of Russians marched through central Moscow, carrying banners
declaring "I am not afraid" and chanting "Russia without Putin" in
memory of murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov.
   (Reuters, 3/1/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Islamic State
released at least 19 Christians, who were among over 220 people
taken captive last week in northeastern Syria.
   (SFC, 3/2/15, p.A2)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Uruguay Tabare
Vazquez (75) was sworn in as president, returning to office a decade
after first leading the left to power and drawing a curtain on
folksy farmer Jose Mujica's colorful rule.
   (AFP, 3/1/15)  Â
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Venezuelan
President Nicolas Maduro said his government had detained US
citizens, including a pilot, on suspicion of espionage, in a move
likely to strain already tense relations between Washington and
Caracas.
   (Reuters, 3/1/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Yemen a late
night drone strike killed three suspected Al-Qaeda militants in the
Markha district of the southern province of Shabwa.
   (AFP, 3/2/15)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The United States
and its allies staged 21 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and
Syria.
   (Reuters, 3/2/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Americans voted in
what is deemed the most pivotal day of the White House primaries.
Almost 600 Republican delegates were up for grabs on Super Tuesday,
nearly half the 1,237 needed to secure the nomination. Some 865
Democratic delegates were at stake, 36 percent of those needed to
win.
   (AFP, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The US Office of
the Director of National Intelligence released the will of Osama bin
Laden. In his handwritten will seized in May, 2011, bin Laden
claimed he had about $29 million in personal wealth — the bulk of
which he wanted to be used "on jihad, for the sake of Allah."
   (AP, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Afghanistan at
least 2 civilians were killed in an attempted car bomb attack on the
Indian consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad, Nangarhar
province. All 5 attackers were killed. The next day a faction of the
Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility.
   (Reuters, 3/2/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Australian
scientists warned coral bleaching was occurring on the Great Barrier
Reef as sea temperatures warm, and it could rapidly accelerate
unless cooler conditions blow in over the next few weeks.
   (AFP, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, British lender
Barclays revealed a further shake-up of the beleaguered bank,
unveiling plans to exit its African operations, as it seeks to
restore its battered reputation under new leadership.
   (AFP, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Greece said it has
asked the EU for nearly half a billion euros in emergency funds to
help shelter 100,000 refugees. There were currently some 25,000
refugees and migrants on Greek soil and around 1,000 continued to
arrive on a typical day.
   (AFP, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Council of
Europe told Georgia to improve its anti-discrimination policies and
legislation, saying it was worried by an increase in cases of hate
speech and violence against religious and sexual minority groups.
   (Reuters, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, France razed parts
of the "Jungle" migrant camp for a second day while thousands of
refugees remained blocked in Greece.
   (AFP, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Georgian coal
miners ended their two-week strike after the coal company agreed to
a raise.
   (AP, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Guyana said it has
requested that authorities in Canada arrest a former government
official accused of embezzling money from the state-owned power
company. Aeshwar Deonarine fled to Canada last year after he was
accused of illegally raising his salary and stealing $150,000 from
the power company where he worked as deputy chief executive.
   (AP, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Guyana a police
sergeant was been stabbed to death while trying to arrest a rape
suspect. Officers finally shot the suspect in the leg and arrested
him.
   (AP, 3/2/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Hungary's
parliament approved legal amendments restricting access to public
information about the state-owned postal services, and businesses
and foundations established by the National Bank of Hungary.
   (AP, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In central India
security forces killed 8 suspected Maoist militants, including five
women, in a raid on a rebel training camp in Chhattisgarh state.
   (Reuters, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Iraq separate
attacks in and around Baghdad killed at least 13 people and wounded
31 others.
   (AP, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Two Israeli
soldiers said to be using a traffic app mistakenly entered a refugee
camp in the occupied West Bank overnight, sparking clashes that
killed one Palestinian and wounded 15 people.
   (AFP, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Four Kenyan
policemen were charged with illegal possession of ivory at a Nairobi
court.
   (AFP, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A mob in southern
Malawi burned 7 men to death for allegedly possessing human bones
for use in witchcraft in Nsanje.
   (AFP, 3/2/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Malaysian national
car company Proton said it has begun shipping left-hand drive sedans
to Chile as it seeks to tap new markets and revitalize exports.
   (AP, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Northern Ireland
Seamus Daly (45), the only remaining suspect in the 1998 A bombing
that killed 29 people and threatened a peace deal, walked free from
prison after a British court dropped all charges. The case against
Daly collapsed as prosecutors withdrew all charges after
inconsistent evidence by a key witness in preliminary pre-trial
hearings.
   (AFP, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, North Korea said it
will boycott the UN Human Rights Council deploring the
"politicization" of the body.
   (Reuters, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Oman a bus
traveling through the northwestern desert crashed into a truck and a
passing car later slammed into the wreckage early today, killing at
least 18 people and injuring 16 others.
   (AP, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Pakistan 2 local
employees of the US consulate in the city of Peshawar were killed by
an explosive device along with some soldiers while on
drug-eradication mission.
   (Reuters, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Pakistan
Muhammad Asif went on the run after murdering his sisters Fozia Bibi
(22) and Suriya Bibi (24) in a suspected honor killing in Punjab
province.
   (Reuters, 3/2/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Puerto Rico police
arrested a special education teacher and her husband after raiding
the couple's upscale home and seizing $2.4 million worth of cocaine.
   (AP, 3/2/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Russia called for
the Syrian-Turkish border to be closed, saying arms were being
hidden in humanitarian aid convoys and channeled to fighters of
Islamic State and its allies.
   (Reuters, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The official Saudi
Press Agency reported that five people were executed today in
various parts of the kingdom. That brings the total number of people
executed since January 1 to 69.
   (AP, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Somalia a
roadside bomb set by al Shabaab killed at least 5 soldiers and
injured eight others outside Mogadishu.
   (Reuters, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Spain Arnaldo
Otegi, the former leader of the banned Basque separatist party
Batasuna, left prison after serving a six-and-a-half year sentence
for trying to reform the illegal party.
   (Reuters, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Ukraine banned
government officials from publicly criticizing the work of state
institutions and their colleagues, after damaging disclosures last
month that highlighted slow progress in fighting corruption.
   (Reuters, 3/1/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Zimbabwean former
vice president Joice Mujuru launched a new political party in a
direct challenge to veteran President Robert Mugabe's all-powerful
ZANU-PF, as speculation increases over his succession.
   (AFP, 3/1/16)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Washington Post
reported that Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a former US senator,
received Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak in his office in
September. A 2nd encounter was in July at a Heritage Foundation
event that was attended by about 50 ambassadors, during the
Republican National Convention. During sworn testimony at his Senate
confirmation hearing in January, Sessions responded to a question
from Democratic Senator Al Franken that he did not "have
communications with the Russians" during the course of the
presidential campaign.
   (Reuters, 3/2/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Former Montana Rep.
Ryan Zinke was sworn in as US interior secretary.
   (SFC, 3/2/17, p.A6)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, US federal
prosecutors announced racketeering charges against seven Baltimore
police officers alleging illegal stops, thefts and fake reports.
   (SFC, 3/3/17, p.A7)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Tom Pritzker,
chairman and president of the Chicago-based Hyatt Foundation,
announced that Catalonia-based architects Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem
and Ramon Vilalta have won the 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
   (AP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Oregon a house
fire in the small town of Riddle left four children dead.
   (SFC, 3/2/17, p.A5)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The DJIA rose above
21,000 for the first time and closed at a record 21,115.55. All four
major US stock exchanges reached record highs.
   (SFC, 3/2/17, p.C2)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, US salmonella
illnesses linked to turtles began to infect people. According to the
US Centers for Disease Control some 37 people across 13 states were
diagnosed with salmonella until August 3.
   (SFC, 8/30/17, p.A5)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Afghanistan a
pair of near-simultaneous Taliban suicide bombings struck Kabul,
targeting a sprawling police compound and offices of the country's
intelligence agency and killing 16 people.
   (AP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The UN's World
Meteorological Organization published the highest temperatures on
record in three Antarctic zones, setting a benchmark for studying
how climate change is affecting this crucial region.
   (AFP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Austrians became
eligible to receiving up to 4,000 euros ($4,300) in rebates to help
offset the higher price of an electric vehicle. Neighboring Germany
introduced a comparable premium last year.
   (Reuters, 3/20/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, British Land said
Chinese property magnate Cheung Chung Kiu has agreed to buy its
London's distinctive "Cheesegrater" skyscraper for £1.15-billion.
   (AFP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Gustav Metzger,
Germany-born British inventor of auto-destruct art, died in London.
   (Econ, 3/18/17, p.90)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Cambodia migrant
worker Oeut Ang said he fired shots that killed Kem Ley last July
because he was upset over the $3,000 he was owed. Kem Ley's
relatives believe the suspect isn't telling the whole truth and that
the government may have masterminded the killing.
   (AP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The World Health
Organization (WHO) said it has noticed changes in the bird flu virus
now spreading in China, but says the risk of the disease spreading
easily between people remains low. It also said scientists have
identified genetic changes suggesting the viruses are resistant to
Tamiflu, the recommended treatment for the illness, in about 7
percent of recent cases.
   (AP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Colombia's FARC
rebels begin disarming under a historic peace deal, beginning the
delicate transition from guerrilla army to political party after
more than half a century at war.
   (AFP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In CongoDRC
Congolese, Tanzanian and French workers were abducted from Canada’s
Banro Mining Corp.'s Namoya gold mine. Rebels of the Rahiya
Mutomboki group demanded $1 million in ransom for the five workers.
The Tanzanian was soon released. The French man and three Congolese
were released on May 27.
   (AP, 3/2/17)(AP, 5/28/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, It was reported
that a network of schools in Ethiopia linked to Muslim cleric
Fethullah Gulen, accused by Turkey of masterminding a failed coup
attempt last year, is changing ownership to a group of educators
from Germany.
   (AP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Indonesia and Saudi
Arabia signed agreements in areas ranging from trade to aviation as
the kingdom's monarch visited the world's most populous
Muslim-majority country for the first time in almost half a century.
   (AFP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Iranian President
Hassan Rouhani and Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan agreed to
improve ties, including in the fight against terrorism, on the
sidelines of an economic cooperation summit in the Pakistani capital
Islamabad.
   (Reuters, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Macedonian
President Gjeorge Ivanov said he cannot give a mandate to form a
government to the leader of the Social Democrats who won a
parliamentary majority by getting the support of ethnic Albanian
parties.
   (Reuters, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A Malaysian court
charged two young women, accused of smearing VX nerve agent on the
estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader, with murder.
   (AP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Nepal said it has
forced 2,500 old vehicles off roads in Kathmandu, part of a fight
against alarming air pollution levels that have hit nine times World
Health Organization (WHO) limits.
   (Reuters, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A Norway appeals
court ruled that Norway did not violate the human rights of mass
murderer Anders Behring Breivik by isolating him in jail,
overturning a lower court ruling from last year.
   (AP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A Palestinian broke
into a home in a West Bank settlement near Hebron and stabbed an
Israeli, who then shot and killed the intruder.
   (AP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Polish European
Parliament lawmaker Janusz Korwin-Mikke told the European parliament
that "women must earn less than men because they are weaker, they
are smaller, they are less intelligent." Two days later in Warsaw he
said it is a "20th-century stereotype that women have the same
intellectual potential as men," and that the stereotype "must be
destroyed because it is not true."
   (AP, 3/3/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Human Rights Watch
said that Poland is endangering asylum-seekers fleeing persecution
in the Russian province of Chechnya and elsewhere by returning them
summarily to Belarus.
   (AP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Portugal
American ex-CIA agent Sabrina de Sousa won a last-minute reprieve
from a Lisbon court and will no longer be extradited from Portugal
to Italy, where a court convicted her of taking part in the
kidnapping of a Muslim cleric. The court ruled that Sabrina de Sousa
must be released immediately since Italy had cancelled its detention
and extradition request for her.
   (AP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Puerto Rico's Gov.
Ricardo Rossello submitted a fiscal plan that rejects austerity
measures sought by a federal control board and instead proposes
alternative ways to boost revenue and cut spending amid an economic
recession.
   (AP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Somaliland DP
World, a Dubai-based port operator, began working from Berbera’s
beachside hotel. Three weeks later the UAE revealed plans for
25-year lease of air and naval bases alongside.
   (Econ, 4/8/17, p.42)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In South Africa
thousands of coal truck drivers descended on Pretoria to protest
against the country's renewable energy program, after President
Jacob Zuma expressed support for the sector last month.
   (Reuters, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Prosecutors in
Madrid launched an "urgent" investigation into a conservative
association that chartered a bus displaying a large,
anti-transgender message to tour Spain, drawing widespread
condemnation.
   (AFP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In northern Syria
the Turkish army and allied Syrian rebels attacked villages held by
US-allied militias near the city of Manbij. Russian-backed Syrian
government forces and their allies recaptured the historic Palmyra
citadel, on the city's western outskirts, from Islamic State
fighters.
   (Reuters, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Ukraine a fifth
of a million phone users in the rebel-controlled eastern city of
Donetsk were cut off from the rest of the country. Russian-backed
rebels in eastern Ukraine said they are taking over 40 factories and
coal mines. They include those owned by tycoon Rinat Akhmetov, whose
foundation has been the largest provider of humanitarian aid to a
war-battered population.
   (Reuters, 3/1/17)(AP, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, UN investigators
said both sides in the battle for Aleppo committed war crimes,
including Syrian government aircraft that "deliberately" bombed and
strafed a humanitarian convoy, killing 14 aid workers and halting
relief operations. Their report said Syrian and Russian forces
conducted daily air strikes on rebel-held eastern Aleppo between
July and its fall on December 22, killing hundreds and destroying
hospitals.
   (Reuters, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Marie Collins, a
leading member of a group advising Pope Francis on how to root out
sex abuse in the Catholic Church, quit in frustration, citing
"shameful" resistance within the Vatican.
   (Reuters, 3/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A UN official said
fighting around Yemen's port of Mokha has forced some 45,000 people
from their homes, with many facing continued uncertainty and the
threat of further displacement.
   (AP, 3/1/17)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, President Donald
Trump announced plans to impose tariffs on imported steel and
aluminum. The announcement escalated tensions with trading partners
and stocks closed sharply lower on Wall Street.
   (AP, 3/2/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Trump
administration told Congress it plans to sell Ukraine 210 anti-tank
missiles to help it defend its territory from Russia.
   (SFC, 3/2/18, p.A2)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Police in Atlanta,
Georgia, arrested Jesse Randall Davidson (53), a social studies
teacher at Dalton High School, after he barricaded himself alone in
a classroom and fired a hand gun out a window. No motives were
given. Davidson had been hospitalized at least 3 times in recent
years as people worried about his state of mind.
   (SFC, 3/2/18, p.A5)(SFC, 3/3/18, p.A6)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Kroger grocery
chain said it is raising the minimum age to buy guns at its Fred
Meyer stores in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington states.
   (SFC, 3/2/18, p.A4)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Armenia scrapped a
peace agreement it signed with Turkey in 2009 in what turned out to
be a failed attempt to normalize relations between the two
countries.
   (Reuters, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Bangladesh's border
agency accused Myanmar of deploying additional forces across its
border near a no man's land where thousands of Rohingya Muslim
refugees are living in tents.
   (AP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The British
government abandoned measures drawn up in the wake of the
phone-hacking scandal to punish newspapers that refuse to join a
government-approved press regulator.
   (AFP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A major British
inquiry into child abuse said the government must pay compensation
to 2,000 people who were sent overseas as children to countries
where many met harsh conditions, neglect and abuse. More than
100,000 poor children were sent to then-British colonies including
Australia, New Zealand and Canada starting in the 19th century.
   (AP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Canadian outdoor
outfitter Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) said it will stop selling
outdoor sports items made by brands owned by Utah-based Vista
Outdoor that also sells assault-style rifles.
   (AFP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, China expressed
anger after the US Senate passed a bill promoting closer US ties
with Taiwan, but the step drew praise from the self-ruled island
which pledged to deepen cooperation.
   (Reuters, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In northeastern
Congo DRC at least 34 bodies were found after killings in several
villages in Ituri province. The violence has been between members of
the Lendu and Hema groups.
   (AP, 3/2/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Egypt's military
said two officers have been killed and two others wounded in
fighting a part of a massive security operation against Islamic
State group militants in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula and
other areas. 13 militants were reported killed in an exchange of
fire and 86 people arrested. The tally brings the army's death toll
to 12 since the operation began on February 9.
   (AP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Ethiopia acquired a
stake in the Berbera port in the breakaway state of Somaliland, as a
legal dispute raged over another major Horn of Africa shipping hub.
Dubai-based DP World last week accused Djibouti of illegally seizing
a port that is the main transit route to landlocked Ethiopia.
   (AP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, EU lawmakers
supported the European Commission's plans to take unprecedented
punitive steps against Poland over reforms of its judiciary and
state media that they say threaten the rule of law in the
ex-communist country.
   (Reuters, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Heavy snowfall and
deadly blizzards lashed Europe. Exceptional snow and wind forced
airports to close in Scotland, Switzerland and France and stranded
several hundred drivers in their cars.
   (AFP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Germany a top
interior ministry official said security officials allowed hackers
"controlled" access to government networks in order to track
possible culprits and their methods, as outraged lawmakers
complained about being kept in the dark.
   (Reuters, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Germany police
arrested Russian businessman Andrei Kovalchuk (49), accused of
smuggling nearly 400 kg of cocaine from Argentina into Russia.
   (AP, 3/2/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Senior Israeli and
Polish diplomats met in Jerusalem in a bid to resolve differences
over a controversial Holocaust law passed in Poland that has raised
concerns in the Jewish state.
   (AFP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Kazakhstan said it
will allow cabinet and parliament members to speak Russian,
softening the tone of an earlier statement by President Nursultan
Nazarbayev who had ordered a switch to Kazakh.
   (Reuters, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Kenyan
conservationists expressed outrage after construction of a railway
line began inside Nairobi's famed national park, saying this defied
a court order halting the project.
   (AFP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Macedonia, in a
goodwill gesture to neighboring Greece, removed a prominent statue
of the ancient Greek warrior-king Alexander the Great from its main
airport terminal.
   (AP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, An al Qaeda
affiliate based in Mali released a video of French aid worker Sophie
Petronin (72), who was kidnapped in late 2016.
   (AP, 3/2/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Mexican law
enforcement personnel said they have found undetonated explosive
devices on a ferry that runs between the Caribbean resorts of Playa
del Carmen and the island of Cozumel.
   (AP, 3/2/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In northeastern
Nigeria three workers for UN agencies were among 11 people killed in
an attack by armed Boko Haram militants on a military base near the
border with Cameroon. Aid agencies soon pulled out of Rann, leaving
tens of thousands uprooted by the fighting living again in parlous
conditions with little or no international humanitarian support.
   (AP, 3/2/18)(Reuters, 3/22/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Pakistan said an
"unprovoked" Indian attack killed two soldiers and a 70-year-old
villager in the disputed Kashmir region.
   (AP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A Polish law that
makes it a crime to falsely accuse the Polish nation of crimes
committed by Nazi Germany took effect, part of a wider effort by
nationalist authorities to use history to defend the country's honor
and pride.
   (AP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A blackout hit
Puerto Rico's capital and surrounding areas after two of the US
territory's main power plants shut down as officials warn the power
company is struggling to remain operational.
   (AP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Russia's President
Vladimir Putin declared that an array of new strategic nuclear
weapons has been tested that can't be intercepted, claiming a
technological breakthrough that could dramatically increase Russia's
military capability, boost the Kremlin's global position and also
raise Western concerns about a potential renewed arms race in the
21st century.
   (AP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Slovak police
raided houses linked to the alleged members of the Italian
'ndrangheta syndicate in connection with the slaying of
investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend, Martina
Kusnirova. Seven men were detained.
   (AP, 3/2/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Somalia a mortar
attack in Mogadishu, claimed by Islamist group al Shabaab, killed
three civilians and injured two others.
   (Reuters, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Spain
Catalonia's majority separatist parliament denounced Madrid's "shift
towards authoritarianism" and defended ousted leader Carles
Puigdemont as it approved its first motion since December elections,
amid ongoing talks to form a regional government. The motion said
Puigdemont -- currently in self-imposed exile in Belgium -- is the
"legitimate" candidate for the regional presidency.
   (AFP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Syrian aircraft
carried out strikes before the 9:00 am start of the daily "truce",
killing nine civilians in Eastern Ghouta. Ground battles were also
taking place in Al-Shaifuniyah which lies in the enclave's
northeastern region and has been extensively destroyed in recent
days.
   (AFP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Syria airstrikes
took place late today in the village of Jamaa and killed 17 fighters
of the force known as the Popular Forces. The Turkish air force hit
two positions of pro-government Syrian fighters deployed last week
in the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, killing and wounding a number of
fighters.
   (AP, 3/2/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Tunisia dozens
of judges and lawyers staged a work stoppage outside a court near
Tunis over alleged pressure from police in a trial involving their
colleagues.
   (AFP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Turkey's state
broadcaster faced accusations of imposing censorship reminiscent of
a military coup after admitting it had banned over 200 songs from
being played on air.
   (AFP, 3/1/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Venezuelan
intelligence agents entered the home of opposition leader Leopoldo
Lopez, who is under house arrest for leading protests against
President Nicolas Maduro. The arrival of agents of the Sebin came
hours after the New York Times published a story in which Lopez
described how security forces have sought to prevent him from
speaking with reporters.
   (Reuters, 3/1/18)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The United States
imposed sanctions on six Venezuelan security officials for
obstructing aid that Washington had tried to force in as part of its
effort to support the country's opposition leader against President
Nicolas Maduro.
   (AFP, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Acclaimed
Irish-born architect Kevin Roche (96) died at his home in
Connecticut. He left his mark on world-class buildings from New
York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the city's Museum of Jewish
Heritage to airports in New York and Washington.
   (AP, 3/3/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Virginia former
high school teacher Christopher Brannon was sentenced to 34 months
in prison for hacking into private digital accounts of celebrities
and others. He was the fifth person charged in the 2014 "celebgate"
scandal.
   (SFC, 3/2/19, p.A4)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In southern
Afghanistan at least 25 Afghan soldiers were killed as they repelled
an attack by the Taliban on a military base in Helmand province.
Afghan forces killed at least nine Taliban insurgents, including
three suicide bombers.
   (Reuters, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In southern
Afghanistan at least 20 people including children were killed by
flash floods that engulfed up to 2,000 homes and swept away cars in
Kandahar province.
   (Reuters, 3/2/19)(AP, 3/3/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Algeria tens of
thousands of protesters marched through Algiers against ailing
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term, surging past
a barricade and defying repeated volleys of tear gas fired by
police. A total of 183 people were injured during the protests.
   (AP, 3/1/19)(Reuters, 3/2/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Argentine Pres.
Mauricio Macri announced a 46 percent increase in subsidies for poor
families with children, the only new initiative included in his
State of the Union address.
   (Reuters, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Belarus Pres.
Alexander Lukashenko strongly rejected the possibility that Russia
could incorporate his nation, as the two former Soviet republics
discussed how to more closely integrate their economies, including a
possible joint currency.
   (AP, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Botswana's Pres.
Mokgweetsi Masisi dismissed a report that the country had offered
Zimbabwe a $600 million diamond-backed loan and said his government
had only offered to guarantee a $100 million private credit line for
Botswana companies to invest in their troubled neighbor.
   (Reuters, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Brazil Rio de
Janeiro's world-famous carnival celebration got underway.
   (AP, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The British
government agreed to pay 33 million pounds ($43 million) to settle a
lawsuit that claimed it improperly awarded contracts to run extra
ferry services in the event that Britain leaves the EU without an
agreement on future relations.
   (AP, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Canada said it will
allow a US extradition request for Meng Wangzhou, an executive of
Chinese tech giant Huawei, to face charges over possible dealings
with Iran to proceed.
   (AP, 3/2/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Quebec's appeals
court upheld a historic ruling ordering three tobacco firms to pay
Can$15.5 billion (US$11.6 billion) to smokers in the Canadian
province who claimed they were never warned about the health risks
associated with smoking.
   (AFP, 3/2/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Colombian
authorities announced that Carlos Bermeo, a prosecutor with the
special peace tribunal, was detained along with a senator and two
other suspects for taking a $500,000 bribe in exchange for swaying a
controversial ruling over the extradition of Seuxis Hernandez, a
rebel peace negotiator, to the US on drug charges.
   (SSFC, 3/3/19, p.A4)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In the Czech Rep.
an armed Serbian man, reported to be a contract killer, was arrested
in Prague. Serbia's Blic daily soon reported that the man is
well-known contract killer Caba Der, sought by several countries
over multiple murders.
   (AP, 3/2/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Denmark a fraud
involving public funds show 10 million kroner ($1.5 million) more
than originally thought vanished from government coffers. Two new
investigations showed that a total of 121 million kroner vanished
between 1993 and 2018.
   (AP, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Germany
thousands of students in the port city of Hamburg marched out of
school led by teenage Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg
to call for more action on climate change.
   (Reuters, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Germany gardener
Bernhard Graumann (59) was found dead in his bed in the southwestern
town of Mehlingen. He had been in conflict with both a doctor and a
family, and is thought to have planted explosives before he died.
The 64-year-old doctor in the nearby town of Enkenbach-Alsenborn was
killed this morning. Two days later a woman (37) and her 4-year-old
daughter were injured by glass splinters when the woman put a log
that had been rigged with explosives into her stove and it blew the
door out.
   (AP, 3/6/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Three Yazidi women
and 18 children returned to Iraq from Syria after more than four
years in Islamic State captivity. Islamic State militants launched
an assault on Sinjar, the Yazidi heartland, on Aug. 3, 2014.
According to community leaders, more than 3,000 Yazidis remained
unaccounted for.
   (Reuters, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Israeli PM Benjamin
Netanyahu met with Liberian Pres. George Weah in Jerusalem.
Netanyahu has made strengthening ties with Africa a foreign policy
priority.
   (AFP, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Italy
Moroccan-born Imane Fadil (33), a former model and witness at Silvio
Berlusconi's sex trial, died at one of the city's hospitals. On
March 16 a newspaper suggested she may have been poisoned with a
radioactive substance.
   (AFP, 3/16/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Malaysia a new
ruling coalition, the Perikatan Nasional (national alliance), was
sworn in under Muhyiddin Yassin.
   (Econ., 3/7/20, p.32)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Malaysia more 34
Muslim Rohingya women and children were found stranded along a beach
in northern Perlis state, and were believed to have been dropped off
by human traffickers.
   (AP, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Mexico's Treasury
Secretary Santiago Nieto said the financial intelligence unit of the
treasury has frozen $156 million of the state Autonomous University
of Hidalgo's funds while it investigates suspected money laundering.
   (AP, 3/2/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Mexican officials
said the death toll from a Jan. 18 explosion at an illegally tapped
pipeline has risen to 134.
   (AP, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In southern Nigeria
more than 50 people were left missing after a leaking oil pipeline
exploded and caused a stampede in Bayelsa state. The Nembe Creek
Trunk pipeline exploded, but no fatalities were reported. It runs
from an oil terminal in Bonny to the state of Bayelsa with capacity
of 150,000 barrels per day.
   (AP, 3/2/19)(AFP, 3/3/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Pakistani officials
handed over a captured Indian Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman at
a border crossing with India in a "gesture of peace" promised by PM
Imran Khan amid a dramatic escalation with the country's archrival
over the disputed region of Kashmir. In a heavily edited video
distributed by the Pakistani military just before his release,
Varthaman praised the professionalism of the Pakistani army and
criticized Indian media for creating war hysteria.
   (AP, 3/1/19)(AFP, 3/2/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Russia vowed to
maintain support for the embattled regime of its Venezuelan "friend"
President Nicolas Maduro, including with humanitarian aid supplies.
   (AFP, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Saudi Arabia
announced it had revoked the citizenship of Hamza bin Laden, the son
of the late al-Qaida leader who has become an increasingly prominent
figure in the terror network. The royal decree stripping his
citizenship was signed in November, but only became public now.
   (AP, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Saudi Arabia
decided to put jailed women activists on trial after holding them
for nearly a year without charge.
   (AFP, 3/2/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, South Korean
President Moon Jae-in said his government plans to discuss with the
United States the possibility of restarting joint inter-Korean
economic projects to induce nuclear disarmament from North Korea,
which insisted it had asked only for partial sanctions relief in
exchange for shutting down its main nuclear complex.
   (AP, 3/1/19)
 2019      Mar 1, The Spanish
government adopted a decree that aims to cap residential rent rises
within the term of a contract ahead of a general election in April.
The decree will enter into force in the next few days but will need
to be endorsed by parliament later.
   (Reuters, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Sudan's embattled
President Omar al-Bashir quit his position as chairman of the ruling
party after more than two months of protests against his nearly
three-decade rule. Al-Bashir delegated his powers as chairman of the
National Congress Party to its deputy chairman, Ahmed Harun, until
the party's next general conference.
   (AP, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Switzerland
former FIFA senior vice president David Chung was banned from soccer
for 6½ years for financial wrongdoing linked to a $20 million
building project. The Papua New Guinea official resigned as Oceania
president after a FIFA-appointed audit found irregularities linked
to awarding of contracts for its headquarters in Auckland.
   (AP, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In eastern Syria
more civilians evacuated from the last territory held by the Islamic
State group, amid a warning by the United Nations about the plight
of thousands who have fled the area in recent weeks.
   (AP, 3/1/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Venezuela's Vice
President Delcy Rodriguez said President Nicolas Maduro has ordered
state oil company PDVSA's office in Lisbon to be relocated to
Moscow, a move she said was designed to help safeguard her country's
assets.
   (Reuters, 3/1/19)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, President Donald
Trump said travelers from countries at high risk of coronavirus
would be screened before boarding and upon arrival, without
specifying which countries. New cases were reported in the Chicago
area and Rhode Island. To date, more than 86,500 cases have been
confirmed. Outside of China, it has spread to 53 countries, with
more than 6,500 cases and more than 100 deaths. Globally, the
illness has killed nearly 3,000 people.
   (Reuters, 3/1/20)(Reuters, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, It was reported
that The United States will give Zambia a new one year bilateral
grant of $389 million for AIDS relief starting in October after
Congressional approval.
   (AP, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A US federal judge
ruled that Ken Cuccinelli was unlawfully appointed to lead the US
Citizenship and Immigration Services agency and, as a result, lacked
authority to give asylum seekers less time to prepare for initial
screening interviews.
   (AP, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Pete Buttigieg
(38), the former mayor of Indiana's fourth largest city, formally
suspended his White House bid late today.
   (AP, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, New York Governor
Andrew Cuomo's office confirmed the state's first coronavirus case
late today, in a woman in her late thirties who recently travelled
to Iran.
   (The Independent, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A second person
died of coronavirus in the northwestern US state of Washington as
number of infections passed 75.
   (AFP, 3/2/20)(Reuters, 3/2/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Wyoming at least
three people were killed and 30 others injured on I-80 amid snowy
conditions.
   (SFC, 3/3/20, p.A4)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Afghanistan's Pres.
Ashraf Ghani said that he will not free thousands of Taliban
prisoners ahead of all-Afghan power-sharing talks set for next week,
publicly disagreeing with a timetable for a speedy prisoner release
laid out just a day earlier in a US-Taliban peace agreement.
   (AP, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 19, In Australia about
2,700 passengers disembarked in Sidney from the cruise ship Ruby
Princess. More than 600 cases of the coronavirus and 15 deaths were
later linked to the ship. About 200 crew members later showed
symptoms of the virus.
   (SFC, 4/10/20, p.A4)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Britain announced a
jump in coronavirus cases, with 12 new infections taking the total
to 35.
   (AP, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Mainland China
reported the biggest daily rise in coronavirus cases since Feb. 22.
A total of 2,870 people have died in mainland China and 79,824 have
been infected by the virus.
   (Reuters, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, France now has 100
confirmed cases. Of those, two have died. Louvre workers who guard
Leonardo da Vinci's “Mona Lisa” and other masterpieces walked off
the job, fearful of being contaminated by the museum’s flow of
tourists from around the world.
   (Reuters, 3/1/20)(AP, 3/4/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Germany's Robert
Koch Institute for disease control said the number of confirmed
coronavirus cases in Germany has jumped to 117 from 66.
   (Reuters, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Greek army and
police patrols using tear gas and stun grenades to thwart attempts
overnight by thousands to push into the country. Thousands of
migrants and refugees massed at Turkey's western frontier, trying to
enter Greece by land and sea after Turkey said its borders were open
to those hoping to head to Europe.
   (AP, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Iran's health
ministry raised the nationwide death toll from the new coronavirus
to 54 as the number of confirmed infected cases jumped overnight by
more than half to 978 people.
   (AP, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Ireland, Luxembourg
and Qatar reported their first cases of the coronavirus.
   (Reuters, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Italy reported
1,694 positive cases of coronavirus and 34 deaths.
   (AFP, 3/2/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Kazakhstan police
detained dozens of opposition supporters who took to the streets
after the death of an anti-government activist in a detention
center.
   (Reuters, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Malaysia arrested a
man (35) and started investigating three others for social media
posts that insult the king and threaten public order.
   (AP, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Nicaragua
Ernesto Cardenal (95), the renowned poet and Roman Catholic cleric
who became a symbol of revolutionary verse in Nicaragua and around
Latin America, died. His suspension from the priesthood by St. John
Paul II lasted over three decades.
   (AP, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Poland several
dozen activists protested in front of a Warsaw church guarded by
police as Catholic Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski, criticized for his
anti-LGBT language, celebrated mass.
   (Reuters, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Saudi Arabia the
2nd Riyadh International Humanitarian Forum opened in Riyadh.
   (PRNewswire, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In South Africa
hundreds of foreign migrants were removed from central Cape Town by
authorities following a months-long stand-off. The group had lost
their court bid to compel the government to fly them to what they
said would be safer countries.
   (AP, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In South Korea the
number of coronavirus cases is now at 3,736 with 21 deaths tied to
the Shincheonji religious sect. The founder of the sect and 11
others have just been charged with murder.
   (The Daily Beast, 3/1/20)(Reuters, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Syria, Turkish
troops shot down two Syrian warplanes after the Syrian military
downed a Turkish drone. Syrian state media said the Syrian army has
so far downed three Turkish drones that Ankara had been using
extensively to hit Syrian army locations and air bases.
   (AP, 3/1/20)(Reuters, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Tajikistan voted in
a parliamentary election that will produce a legislature loyal to
President Imomali Rakhmon (67) who has run the ex-Soviet Central
Asian nation for a quarter of a century.
   (Reuters, 3/1/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Uruguay, with a
population of 3.4 million, shifted to the right with the
inauguration of conservative Luis Lacalle Pou (46) as president
after 15 years of left-wing rule.
   (AP, 3/1/20)(SFC, 3/2/20, p.A2)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Officials on both
sides of the conflict said Yemen’s Houthi rebels have wrested
control of the strategic northern city of Hazm, a major blow to the
internationally recognized government backed by Saudi Arabia.
   (AP, 3/1/20)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, An American father
and son wanted by Japan for aiding former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman
Carlos Ghosn escape from the country in a box were handed over to
Japanese custody, ending their months-long battle to stay in the US.
   (AP, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Automaker FCA US
pleaded guilty to conspiracy, admitting that it paid off leaders of
the United Auto Workers to try to win concessions in negotiations
covering thousands of factory workers. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is
now part of Stellantis, a company created by the merger of Fiat
Chrysler and PSA Peugeot.
   (AP, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, It was reported
that the US government is investigating complaints of engine
compartment fires in nearly 1.9 million Toyota RAV4 small SUVs. 11
fire complaints have been received involving the 2013 through 2018
model years.
   (AP, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Gov. Gavin Newsom
and the state’s legislative leaders announced a new deal in which
California’s public schools could get $6.6 billion from the state
Legislature if they return to in-person instruction by the end of
March.
   (AP, 3/1/21)
2021 Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, California to date
had 3,546,837 cases of coronavirus and 52,212 deaths. The SF Bay
Area had 407,627 cases and 5,371 deaths. Total cases nationwide
reached over 28,657,233 with the death toll at 514,302.
   (sfist.com, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Vernon Jordan (85),
who grew up in the segregated South to become an influential leader
in the American civil rights movement, Washington politics and Wall
Street, died in Washington, DC.
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Thousands of
Chicago Public Schools students, kindergarten through the fifth
grade returned to school. Some 5,000 pre-kindergarten students had
returned to school last month when in-person learning became
available.
   (SFC, 3/2/21, p.A4)
   (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Jordan)(AP,
3/2/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Massachusetts eased
some coronavirus restrictions.
   (SFC, 3/2/21, p.A4)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, It was reported
that North Carolina has agreed to release 3,500 prison inmates early
to reduce the risk that they will catch or spread the coronavirus.
The inamtes will be rleased over the next six months to finish out
their sentences in home confinement.
   (SFC, 3/1/21, p.A5)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, It was reported
that abuse allegations against New Hampshire’s state-run youth
detention center now span six decades. Of the 150 accused staffers,
more than half are accused of sexual abuse.
   (AP, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Texas Attorney
General Ken Paxton said that he’s suing electricity provider Griddy
for passing along massive bills to its customers during February's
winter storm. The lawsuit accuses Griddy of violating the Texas
Deceptive Trade Practices Act and seeks refunds for customers.
Brazos Electric Power Cooperative said it is filing for Chapter 11
bankruptcy protection, citing last month's winter storm that left
millions without power.
   (AP, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Bitcoin rose nearly
6% as risk assets rallied after last week's bond rout cooled, and
Citi said the most popular cryptocurrency was at a "tipping point"
and could become the preferred currency for international trade.
   (Reuters, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Tyson Foods Inc,
the largest US meat processor, said it would offer COVID-19
vaccinations to thousands of its frontline workers at its Iowa meat
processing plants this week.
   (Reuters, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, US drug distributor
McKesson Corp said it had begun distribution of Johnson &
Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine.
   (Reuters, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Armenia
political tensions heightened, with supporters of the embattled
prime minister and the opposition each staging massive rallies in
the capital.
   (AP, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Chancellor
Sebastian Kurz said that Austria would work with Israel and Denmark
on second generation coronavirus vaccines and “no longer rely on the
EU in the future”.
   (The Telegraph, 3/2/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, In Canada
Montreal's cavernous Olympic Stadium, which once hosted young
athletes during the 1976 summer games, began welcoming residents
aged 85 and over for vaccinations.
   (Reuters, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, China said it plans
to inoculate 40% of its population by June. China has been slow to
vaccinate its people relative to other countries.
   (AP, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Cyber intelligence
firm Cyfirma said Chinese state-backed hacking group has in recent
weeks targeted the IT systems of two Indian vaccine makers whose
coronavirus shots are being used in the country's immunization
campaign.
   (Reuters, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Colombia became the
first country in the Americas to receive a shipment of coronavirus
vaccines from the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative.
   (AP, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, It was reported
that three new cases of Ebola have been confirmed in eastern
Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing to 11 the number of cases
since authorities declared a resurgence of the virus last month.
   (Reuters, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Police and military
forces in the Czech Republic set up 500 checkpoints across the
country as one of the European Union's hardest-hit nations marked
the first anniversary of its coronavirus outbreak by significantly
limiting free movement.
   (AP, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Girmay Gebru, a BBC
reporter in Ethiopia's conflict-hit region of Tigray, was detained
by the military. A local journalist, Tamirat Yemane, and two
translators - Alula Akalu and Fitsum Berhane, who were working for
the Financial Times and the AFP news agency, respectively - have
also been detained in recent days. Gebru, Yemane, and two
translators were released two days later.
   (BBC, 3/1/21)(BBC, 3/3/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Finnish
government declared a state of emergency due to rising COVID-19
infections, a step that would allow the Nordic country to shutter
restaurants and to impose other measures to blunt the pandemic.
   (Reuters, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A Paris court found
French former President Nicolas Sarkozy (66) guilty of corruption
and influence peddling and sentenced him to a year in prison. He can
ask to serve that time at home and also plans to appeal.
   (AP, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Paris-based
Reporters Without Borders filed a criminal case against Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman and others in the Saudi hierarchy in a German
court for the brutal 2018 murder, dismemberment, and disappearance
of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
   (AP, 3/2/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Israeli PM Benjamin
Netanyahu accused Iran of attacking an Israeli-owned ship in the
Gulf of Oman last week, a mysterious explosion that further spiked
security concerns in the region.
   (AP, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, PM Benjamin
Netanyahu said Israel is looking to buy 36 million more doses of
COVID-19 vaccines, three times the number it has already bought, in
case booster shots are needed later in the year.
   (Reuters, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Israel's Supreme
Court banned the government from sweeping use of mobile phone
tracking of coronavirus carriers, calling the measure a grave
infraction of civil liberties.
   (Reuters, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Israel's Supreme
Court dealt a major blow to the country's powerful Orthodox
establishment, ruling that people who convert to Judaism through the
Reform and Conservative movements in Israel are also Jewish and
entitled to become citizens.
   (AP, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Italy's island of
Sardinia earned "white zone" status allowing for the lifting of
coronavirus curbs.
   (SFC, 3/2/21, p.A4)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Ivory Coast, one of
the first to benefit from the UN-backed Covax distribution
initiative, began vaccine injections.
   (BBC, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Jamaica, which won
praise for containing its coronavirus outbreak last year, now has
patients overflowing into corridors on chairs and stretchers in some
hospitals, prompting the Caribbean nation to open three emergency
field hospitals. Deaths have risen 1.4 times since the end of the
year and now stand at 422.
   (Reuters, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Toko Shinoda, one
of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, died at a
hospital in Tokyo. Her work married the ancient serenity of
calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism.
   (NY Times, 3/3/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Myanmar police
fired tear gas at defiant crowds in Yangon who returned to the
streets to protest last month's coup, despite reports that security
forces had killed at least 18 people a day earlier.
   (AP, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The Philippines
kicked off its vaccination program, with health workers the first to
be inoculated. The country has reported 576,352 COVID-19 cases
overall, including some with the more infectious British coronavirus
variant. It has recorded 12,318 deaths.
   (Reuters, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, It was reported
that Ukrainian medical facilities have thrown away some unused
COVID-19 vaccines after doctors failed to show up for their own
appointments to be vaccinated.
   (Reuters, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Two top UN human
rights experts urged an international probe into the poisoning of
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and called for his
immediate release from prison.
   (AP, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Russian news
outlets reported that Aleksei A. Navalny, the opposition politician,
is going to serve his prison sentence in a penal colony notorious
for disciplinary measures considered harsh even by Russian
standards.
   (NY Times, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, A UN commissioned
report said tens of thousands of civilians in Syria were
“arbitrarily detained" in enforced disappearances during the
country's 10-year conflict.
   (AP, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, The UN launched an
appeal for countries to fund its response to the humanitarian crisis
in Yemen, where more than six years of war has created the world’s
worst humanitarian disaster.
   (AP, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, WHO
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the number of new
coronavirus infections globally rose last week for the first time in
seven weeks.
   (Reuters, 3/1/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 1, Zimbabwe eased a
coronavirus lockdown and overnight curfew imposed in January by
allowing businesses to fully re-open after the rate of new
infections slowed in the last two weeks.
   (Reuters, 3/1/21)
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