1st of March

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1565 – The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
1790 – The first United States census is authorized.
1815 – Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
1872 – Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
1873 – E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
1932 – The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed.
1946 – The Bank of England is nationalised.
1947 – The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
1953 – Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
1964 – Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
1974 – Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
1995 – Yahoo! is incorporated.
1998 – Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
2003 – The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.

Births
1810 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1849)
1812 – Augustus Pugin, English architect, co-designed the Palace of Westminster (d. 1852)
1858 – Rudolf Diesel, German mechanical engineer and diesel engine inventor (d. 1913)
1904 – Glenn Miller, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (d. 1944) “In The Mood”, “String of Pearls”, “Little Brown Jug”
1905 – Doris Hare, Welsh-English actress (d. 2000) “On The Buses”
1910 – David Niven, English actor (d. 1983)
1918 – Roger Delgado, English actor (d. 1973) “The Master” (original) in Dr Who
1927 – Harry Belafonte, American singer-songwriter and actor
1944 – Mike d'Abo, English singer-songwriter (Manfred Mann and A Band of Angels)
1944 – Roger Daltrey, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (The Who, No Plan B, and The RD Crusaders)
1954 – Catherine Bach, American actress
1954 – Ron Howard, American actor, director, and producer
1990 – Harry Eden, English actor
1993 – Josh McEachran, English footballer
1994 – Justin Bieber, Canadian singer

Deaths
1984 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
1984 – Roland Culver, English actor (b. 1900)
2006 – Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
2006 – Jack Wild, English actor (b. 1952)

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