Historical Events on March 1 (Part 2)

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• 1979 ESPN and NCAA come to an agreement giving the network worldwide multi-media rights to NCAA championships for various sports
• 1980 American poet-singer Patti Smith (32) weds MC5 guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith (31) in Detroit, Michigan
• 1980 Commonwealth Trade Union Council established
• 1980 Snow falls in Florida
• 1980 The US enacts the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act as part of a compromise between the Carter Administration and the Congress over the decontrol of crude oil prices
• 1981 Houston Rockets guard Calvin Murphy misses a free throw in a 102-86 loss in San Antonio, ending his NBA record consecutive free throw streak at 78

• 1982 NY Times raises its price from 25 cents to 30 cents
• 1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data
• 1982 Ski lift malfunctions at Luz-Ardiden in Pyrenees, kills five people
• 1983 Alpine skier Tamara McKinney becomes the first American woman to top the overall World Cup standings with 225 points
• 1983 Tornado tears through Los Angeles, injuring 33 people
• 1984 Landsat 5 & ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit
• 1984 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1985 Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases NBA's Milwaukee Bucks for $18 million
• 1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter

• 1988 Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran
• 1988 Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile
• 1989 Charlie Francis, coach of disqualified sprinter Ben Johnson tells federal inquiry into Canada's greatest sports scandal Johnson knowingly used steroids since 1981; Johnson first across line Olympic 100m 1988
• 1989 Comet du Toit at perihelion
• 1989 The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
• 1990 Benin nullifies its constitution
• 1990 England cricket has its first win against West Indies in 16 years and 24 matches; 9 wicket victory in the 1st Test in Kingston, Jamaica; Allan Lamb's first overseas century 132
• 1990 Luis Alberto Lacalle sworn in as the 36th President of Uruguay
• 1990 Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

• 1991 US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens
• 1992 In a rematch of one of the most controversial decisions in boxing history, Ghana's WBC super featherweight champion Azumah Nelson KOs Australian Jeff Fenech in 8th round in Melbourne
• 1992 Jenny Thompson swims 100m freestyle world record 54.48s at the US Olympic Trials in Indianapolis, IN; passes famous GDR drug tainted record, Kristen Otto 1986 by 0.25s
• 1993 Authorities near Waco, Texas, negotiate (unsuccessfully) with Branch Davidians
• 1993 New expansion NHL team, owned in Anaheim, CA by Disney, receives its name, inspired by the 1992 Disney movie 'The Mighty Ducks'

• 1994 Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland
• 1994 Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution

• 1995 Belgium ends military conscription
• 1995 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland
• 1995 Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay
• 1995 Part of Houston begins using new area code 281
• 1995 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol resigns

• 1996 New toll-free 888 area code introduced in USA
• 1996 Plans approved allowing traffic cameras High Harrington & Shap England
• 1997 5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV

• 1998 Mark Martin drives his Ford Taurus to victory in the inaugural NASCAR Winston Cup event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway; Martin finishes 1.6 seconds ahead of teammate Jeff Burton
• 1998 Miami's Pat Riley becomes the 5th head coach to record 900 NBA career wins with Heat's 85-84 win over the New Jersey Nets
• 1999 Daryll Cullinan scores South African cricket record 275no in the drawn 1st Test against New Zealand at Eden Park, Auckland; Gary Kirsten 128
• 2000 Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
• 2000 The Constitution of Finland is rewritten
• 2001 Carolina center Ron Francis scores a goal on his 38th birthday in Hurricanes' 3-1 win over NY Islanders to become only the 2nd player in NHL history to score 50+ points for 20 straight seasons
• 2002 The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 kilometers (500 miles) above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (9.5 tons).
• 2002 The peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced with the euro (€).
• 2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan as US special operations forces infiltrate the Shahi-Kot Valley in Eastern Afghanistan
• 2003 Legendary Mount St. Mary's basketball head coach Jim Phelan wins final game of 49 year career as Mountaineers win 60-56 over Central Connecticut State; Phelan: 830 wins in NCAA record 1,354 games
• 2003 Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
• 2003 Nashville's Barry Trotz sets NHL record for most games coached with an expansion team from inception as Predators score a 5-4 OT win over Chicago; his 392nd game, passing Terry Crisp (391 with Tampa Bay)
• 2003 World light heavyweight boxing champion Roy Jones Jr. wins a unanimous decision against champion John Ruiz to capture the WBA heavyweight crown in Las Vegas
• 2004 Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq.

• 2006 English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station
• 2006 Tarja Halonen is inaugurated as President of Finland for the second and last time
• 2007 "Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots
• 2007 Tornadoes swarm across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths were at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
• 2009 Steven Holcomb pilots USA-1 sled to victory in the 4-man competition at the World Bobsled Championships at Mt Van Hoevenberg, NY; first American win in the event in 50 years
• 2011 Tomb of a 700 year old female mummy, discovered by road workers, opened in Taizhou, Jiangsu, China
• 2012 Euro zone unemployment reaches historical high of 10.7%
• 2013 14 people are killed in the Lahad Datu standoff between Malaysian government and rebel forces
• 2013 The 2013 US budget sequestration comes into effect
• 2014 29 people are killed & 130 are injured by a group of knife-wielding terrorists at Kunming Railway Station, China

• 2016 Gene for grey hair (IRF4) discovery announced by Scientists from University College London in "Nature Communications"
• 2016 MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred sends a strong message on the issue of domestic violence; issues a 30-game suspension to NY Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman
• 2016 South Korean opposition MPs set a world record for longest filibuster - 9 days (192 hours) trying to block anti-terror bill
• 2016 Two Guatemalan military officers are convicted of sexual slavery during country's civil war - first ever prosecution of sexual slavery during an armed conflict

• 2017 Gustav Klimt's painting "Bauerngarten" sells for $59.3m in London

• 2018 Earliest evidence for figural tattoos (bull and sheep) on two naturally mummified bodies from Egypt’s predynastic period (3351-3017BC) published in "Journal of Archaeological Science"

• 2018 Parisian designer Riccardo Tisci is named the new designer of British brand Burberry after the exit of Christopher Bailey

• 2018 Vladimir Putin in his annual state address claims Russia has an "invincible” intercontinental cruise missile
• 2020 First known COVID-19 case identified in New York, a health care worker returning from Iran
• 2020 Muhyiddin Yassin sworn as Malaysian Prime Minister by Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah
• 2020 Pete Buttigieg drops out of the US Democratic presidential race
• 2020 Turkey launches major offensive against Syrian government in northern Syria after 36 Turkish soldiers killed in air and artillery strikes 3 days earlier
• 2021 Former French President Nicholas Sarkozy is sentenced to three years for trying to bribe a judge
• 2022 Cargo ship carrying 4,000 luxury Volkswagen Group cars sinks off the Portuguese Azores archipelago, two weeks after it caught fire [1]

• 2023 At least 1000 Iranian school girls exposed to toxic gas attacks, since November, amid accusations they are an attempt to close schools after girls participated in recent anti-government protests [1]

• 2023 Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu declared the winner of Nigeria's Presidential election with 37% of the vote, amid claims of fraud from opposition parties [1]
• 2023 Social media site TikTok announces a 60-minute daily screen time limit for users under 18, though with an opt-out clause, in response to concerns about its addictive and harmful algorithms [1]

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