March 1 in history — What Happened Today in History

Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.

Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.

President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.

Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.

The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.

Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.

Paradise Airlines Flight 901A crashes near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, killing 85.

American Airlines Flight 1 crashes into Jamaica Bay in New York, killing 95.

Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.

Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first U.S. member of the Roman Curia.

The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.

Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee.

Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.

Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.

Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.

Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.

The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.

The Bank of England is nationalised.

World War II: Japanese forces land on Java, the main island of the Dutch East Indies, at Merak and Banten Bay (Banten), Eretan Wetan (Indramayu) and Kragan (Rembang).

World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.

An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.

Aviator Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son Charles Jr is kidnapped from his home in East Amwell, New Jersey. His body would not be found until May 12.

The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.

Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion begins, with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.

March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.

The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.

Victor Rask, Swedish ice hockey player

Jordan Veretout, French footballer

Édouard Mendy, Senegalese footballer

Tom Walsh, New Zealand athlete

Joe Mantiply, American baseball player

Tenille Dashwood, Australian professional wrestler

Daniella Monet, American actress

Emeraude Toubia, Canadian-American actress

Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer

Trevor Cahill, American baseball player

Jarvis Varnado, American basketball player

Kesha, American singer-songwriter and actress

Kyle O'Reilly, Canadian professional wrestler

Bonnie Franklin, American actress, dancer, and singer (born 1944)

Andrew Breitbart, American journalist and publisher (born 1969)

Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (born 1932)

Kristian Digby, English television host and director (born 1977)

Peter Osgood, English footballer (born 1947)

Jack Wild, English actor (born 1952)

Nurasyura binte Mohamed Fauzi, Singaporean rape and murder victim (born 2003)

Mian Ghulam Jilani, Pakistani general (born 1914)

Archie Goodwin, American author and illustrator (born 1937)

César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1920)

Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1946)

Joseph Christopher, American schizophrenic serial killer (born 1955)

Edwin H. Land, American scientist and businessman, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (born 1909)