What happend on 1st March

29.02
02.03
1941

World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact thus joining the Axis powers.

1936

Hoover Dam is completed.

1932

The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.

1919

March 1st Movement begins in Korea.

1918

German submarine Unterseeboot 19 (U-19) sinks HMS Calgarian off Rathlin Island.

1917

U.S. government releases the plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.

1914

The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.

1912

Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.

1896

Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.

1896

Battle of Adowa, in which Ethiopia defended its independence against Italy, begins. The Italian invasion, with 100,000 troops, is defeated, ending the First Italo-Abyssinian War.