What happend on 1st March

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02.03
1956

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

1955

Allen Fieldhouse at the University of Kansas hosts its first college basketball game.

1954

Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives. (See U.S. Capitol shooting incident (1954).)

1954

Nuclear 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.

1953

Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke. He dies four days later.

1950

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

1949

Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch.

1947

The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.

1946

The Bank of England is nationalised.

1941

W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S..