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March 1: Disability Day of Mourning; Saint David's Day; Independence Day in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992); Yap Day in Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia

Dmitri Mendeleev

1562 – An attempt by Francis, Duke of Guise, to disperse a church service by Huguenots in Wassy, France, turned into a massacre, resulting in 50 dead, and starting the French Wars of Religion.
1869 – The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (pictured) finished his design of the first periodic table.
1921 – The Australian cricket team, led by Warwick Armstrong, became the first team to complete a whitewash in the Ashes, an achievement that would not be repeated for 86 years.
1936 – Hoover Dam, straddling the Arizona–Nevada border on the Colorado River, was completed.
1992 – A Bosnian-Serb wedding procession was attacked in Sarajevo, resulting in what is widely considered the first casualty of the Bosnian War.

Roger North (d. 1734)
Deke Slayton (b. 1924)
Nick Griffin (b. 1959)
Mustafa Barzani (d. 1979)

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