On This Day
1 March
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1909 P N Panicker, known as the Father of the Library Movement in Kerala, was born in Alappuzha. The activities of the Kerala Grandhasala Sangham that he initiated triggered a popular cultural movement in Kerala which produced universal literacy in the state in the 1990s.
- 1928 C V Raman presented his research on diffraction of light to the world.
- 1988 Sohan Lal Dwivedi, poet, Gandhian and freedom fighter, died at Kanpur. He is known for his patriotic poems such as "Tumhe Naman", a poem on Mahatma Gandhi.
- 2011 Fateh Singh Rathore, tiger conservationist, died at Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan. Fateh Singh joined the Indian Forest Service in 1960 and was part of the first Project Tiger team. He was widely acknowledged as the tiger guru for his legendary knowledge of the big cat. He worked for over 50 years in wildlife conservation.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1872 With the signing of the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law by US President Ulysses S. Grant, the world's first national park was born.
- 1890 First US edition of Sherlock Holmes' first story A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle published.
- 1922 Israeli statesman and soldier Yitzhak Rabin—who, as prime minister of Israel, engaged in peace negotiations with the Palestinians, for which he won a share of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Peace—was born.
- 1947 International Monetary Fund begins operation.
- 1953 After an all-night movie and dinner session with his top advisers, Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.
- 1978 In one of history's most famous cases of body-snatching, two men steal the corpse of the revered film actor Sir Charles Chaplin from a cemetery in the Swiss village of Corsier-sur-Vevey, located in the hills above Lake Geneva, near Lausanne, Switzerland. The corpse was later recovered and the culprits caught.
- 2006 English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article.
- ⭐ Significance
- Zero Discrimination Day is an annual day celebrated on 1 March each year by the United Nations and other international organisations. The day aims to promote equality before the law and in practice throughout all of the member countries of the UN.
- World Civil Defence Day is annually observed across the globe on 1st March to honour the significance of Civil Defence and the personnel who have sacrificed their lives for it.
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