March 1 is:
National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day
Whuppity Scoorie Day, a festival in Lanark, Scotland, carrying on an ancient custom of noisemaking to drive away the evil spirits and thus protect the crops of the new season. Not to be confused with Whuppity Stoorie, a Scottish fairy tale similar to Rumpelstiltskin.
The city of Rio de Janeiro was founded on March 1, 1565.
Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba, a slave, were brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials in 1692.
1781 – The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
Publication of Federalist Paper #63: is the last one written by James Madison and the second about the Senate. Madison thought that a term of six years would be long enough to give stability to the federal government and short enough to prevent abuse of power.
Anniversary of the first United States census, begun in 1790
1792 – US Presidential Succession Act passed; it was revised in 1886 and 1947 and has been modified many times.
Birthday of Frédéric Chopin (March 1, 1810 ), Polish pianist and composer.
Ohio (The Buckeye State) Admission Day (1803) entered the Union as the seventeenth state
- Capital: Columbus
- Nickname: Buckeye State
- Bird: Cardinal
- Flower: Scarlet Carnation
- Tree: Buckeye
- Motto: With God All things are possible
See our page for the state of Ohio for more interesting facts and trivia about Ohio.
1815 – Napoleon returned to France from his banishment on Elba.
A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convened in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico in 1836.
Washington on the Brazos Historic Site is located approximately 1-1/2 hours northwest of Houston, and less than two hours from Austin.
1845 – President John Tyler signed a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
Nebraska Admission Day (1867) as the thirty-seventh state
- Capital: Lincoln
- Nickname: Cornhusker State
- Bird: Western meadowlark
- Flower: Goldenrod
- Tree: Cottonwood
- Motto: Equality before the law
See our page for the state of Nebraska for more interesting facts and trivia about Nebraska.
March 1, 1872 – Yellowstone National Park became the world’s first national park.
1913 – Federal income tax took effect (16th amendment)
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
In 1913, the top tax rate was 7% on incomes above $500,000. A total of $28.3 million was collected.
1932 – The 20-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, was kidnapped. His body was found May 12th. Public outrage led the U.S. Congress to pass the Federal Kidnapping Act (known as the Lindbergh Law) on June 22, 1932—the day that would have been Charles’s second birthday. The Lindbergh Law made kidnapping across state lines a federal crime and stipulated that such an offense could be punished by death. On October 8, 1934, Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for the kidnapping and murder. After more than five weeks of testimony and 11 hours of deliberation, the jury returned a guilty verdict on February 13, 1935, and Hauptmann was sentenced to death. A series of appeals, ultimately reaching the Supreme Court in December 1935, were unsuccessful, and a clemency bid was rejected on March 30, 1936. Hauptmann, denying until the end any involvement in the crime, was executed by electric chair on April 3, 1936.
March 1, 1936 – The Hoover Dam was completed.
1953 – 
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffered a stroke and collapsed; he died four days later. It is believed that Stalin’s regime was responsible for 9 million deaths, with 6 million of these being deliberate killings.
The Peace Corps was established in 1961 by President John Kennedy.
1962 – K-Mart opened. The company was incorporated in 1899 as S. S. Kresge Corporation and renamed Kmart Corporation in 1977. The first store with the Kmart name opened in 1962 in Garden City, Michigan. At its peak in 1994, Kmart operated 2,486 stores globally, including 2,323 discount stores and Super Kmart Center locations in the United States. As of April 16, 2022, that number was down to nine, including just three in the continental United States.