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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Martenitsa in Bulgaria | needs more footnotes |
| Mărțișor in Moldova and Romania | original research, unreliable sources |
| 1562 – Troops of Francis, Duke of Guise, massacred Huguenots in Wassy, France, starting the French Wars of Religion. | refimprove |
| 1633 – Samuel de Champlain reclaimed his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu. | image gallery |
| 1700 – Sweden introduced its own calendar in an attempt to reform into the Gregorian calendar. | refimprove |
| 1919 – Korea under Japanese rule: The Samil Movement began with numerous peaceful protests in Korea, but was brutally suppressed by the Japanese police and army. | tagged refimprove |
| 1954 – The 15-megaton hydrogen bomb Castle Bravo was detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in one of the worst cases of radioactive contamination ever caused by nuclear weapons testing. | tagged more footnotes |
| 1981 – 1981 Irish hunger strike | save for October 3 |
| 2007 – Danish police forcibly evicted squatters from the Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, prompting widespread rioting that would result in 690 arrests in three days. | external links |
Eligible
- 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba were brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning the Salem witch trials.
- 1872 – Yellowstone National Park, located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, the first national park in the world, was established.
- 1896 – French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered the principle of radioactive decay when he exposed photographic plates to uranium.
- 1921 – The Australian cricket team led by Warwick Armstrong became the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
- 1936 – Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River along the Arizona–Nevada border, was completed and turned over to the Federal Government of the United States.
- 1944 – World War II: American and Australian troops won the Battle of Sio in New Guinea.
- 1956 – The NATO phonetic alphabet, today the most widely used spelling alphabet, was first implemented by the International Civil Aviation Organization.
- 1958 – Archbishop of Chicago Samuel Stritch was appointed Pro-Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of Faith, thus becoming the first American to head a dicastery of the Roman Curia.
- 1961 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps.
March 1: Saint David's Day; Independence Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992)
- 1565 – Rio de Janeiro was founded by the Portuguese as São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro.
- 1781 – The Articles of Confederation, the first governing constitution of the United States, was ratified, legally uniting what were originally several independent states into a new sovereign federation.
- 1811 – Muhammad Ali Pasha (pictured), Wāli of the Ottoman province of Egypt, killed the leaders of the Mamluk Sultanate to seize power, founding a dynasty that would last until 1952.
- 1896 – Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
- 1947 – The International Monetary Fund began its financial operations.
- 1962 – American Airlines Flight 1 crashed shortly after takeoff from New York International (Idlewild) Airport, killing all 95 people aboard.