March 1st, 1953

Born on March 1st, 1953

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What happened on March 1st, 1953?

March 1st, 1953

Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin

What else happened on March 1st?

March 1st, 1992

A Bosnian-Serb wedding procession was attacked in Sarajevo, resulting in what is widely considered the first casualty of the Bosnian War.

March 1st, 2014

A group of knife-wielding terrorists attacked passengers at Kunming railway station in Kunming, China, leaving 31 victims dead and more than 140 others injured.

March 1st, 2008

The Armenian military and national police attacked a crowd of people protesting the results of the recent election in Yerevan, leading to 10 deaths and over 100 arrests.

March 1st, 1973

Pink Floyd's critically acclaimed album The Dark Side of the Moon was released.

March 1st, 1958

Archbishop of Chicago Samuel Stritch was appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith, becoming the first American member of the Roman Curia.

March 1st, 1950

In a trial lasting less than 90 minutes, German–British physicist Klaus Fuchs was convicted of violating the Official Secrets Act by supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.

March 1st, 1944

World War II: American and Australian troops won the Battle of Sio against Japanese forces as part of the New Guinea campaign.

March 1st, 1936

Hoover Dam, straddling the Arizona–Nevada border on the Colorado River, was completed.

March 1st, 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.

March 1st, 1896

French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered the principle of radioactive decay when he exposed photographic plates to uranium salts.

March 1st, 1872

Yellowstone National Park (bison pictured), located mostly in the present-day U.S. state of Wyoming, was established by President Ulysses S. Grant.

March 1st, 1870

Paraguayan War: Marshal Francisco Solano López died at the Battle of Cerro Corá.

March 1st, 1869

The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (pictured) finished his design of the first periodic table.

March 1st, 1811

Muhammad Ali Pasha, governor of Ottoman Egypt, killed the Mamluk leaders of Cairo and seized power.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 1st

Born on March 1st, 1953

71

Carlos Queiroz

Portuguese association football manager

*March 1st, 1953, Nampula

71

M. K. Stalin

8th and current Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

*March 1st, 1953, Chennai

71

Charlie Ergen

American businessman

*March 1st, 1953, Oak Ridge

71

José Higueras

Spanish tennis player

*March 1st, 1953, Granada

71

Chuck Zito

American actor

*March 1st, 1953, The Bronx

71

Stephan Wittwer

Swiss musician

*March 1st, 1953, Zürich

71

Klaus Wanninger

German author

*March 1st, 1953, Karlsruhe

71

Rolf Danneberg

German discus thrower

*March 1st, 1953, Hamburg

71

Sinan Çetin

Turkish film director, producer and actor

*March 1st, 1953, Bahçesaray

71

Dave Bickler

American singer

*March 1st, 1953, North Dakota

71

Amitava Roy

Indian judge

*March 1st, 1953, Dibrugarh

71

Dan T. Cathy

American businessman

*March 1st, 1953, Jonesboro

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Who's birthday is on March 1st?

34

Zhang Nan

Chinese badminton player

*March 1st, 1990, Beijing

70

Ron Howard

American film director, producer, and actor

*March 1st, 1954, Duncan

30

Justin Bieber

Canadian singer (born 1994)

*March 1st, 1994, London

35

Karl-Erik Taukar

Estonian singer

*March 1st, 1989, Viljandi

68

Tim Daly

American actor (born 1956)

*March 1st, 1956, Manhattan

39

Andreas Ottl

German footballer

*March 1st, 1985, Munich

69

Alan Thicke

Canadian actor, songwriter, and television host (1947–2016)

*March 1st, 1947, Kirkland Lake †December 13th, 2016, Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center

96

Harry Belafonte

American singer and actor (1927–2023)

*March 1st, 1927, New York City †April 25th, 2023, New York City

61

Thomas Anders

German singer, songwriter, and producer

*March 1st, 1963, Mörz, Münstermaifeld

37

Andreas Adityawarman

Badminton player

*March 1st, 1987, Surakarta City

69

Denis Mukwege

Congolese gynecologist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

*March 1st, 1955, Bukavu

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

64

Armin Reutershahn

German association football manager

*March 1st, 1960, Duisburg

51

Chris Webber

American basketball player

*March 1st, 1973, Detroit

66

Thomas Diehl

German entrepreneur und manager (1951-2017)

*March 1st, 1951, Buenos Aires †April 16th, 2017

68

Mark Todd

New Zealand equestrian

*March 1st, 1956, Cambridge

72

Martin O'Neill

Northern Irish association football player and manager (born 1952)

*March 1st, 1952, Kilrea

59

Mike Dean

American hip hop producer and guitarist

*March 1st, 1965, Houston

70

Catherine Bach

Actress

*March 1st, 1954, Warren

36

Rachael Henley

British actress

*March 1st, 1988, Ilkley

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Born in 1953

71

Harald Jähner

German journalist and writer

*January 1st, 1953, Duisburg

70

Peter Stormare

Swedish actor, director and musician

*August 27th, 1953, Kumla

70

Felix Magath

German association football player and manager

*July 26th, 1953, Aschaffenburg

70

Xi Jinping

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012, President of China since 2013

*June 15th, 1953, Beijing

70

Ewald Lienen

German association football player and manager

*November 28th, 1953, Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock

70

Matthias Platzeck

German politician (SPD)

*December 29th, 1953, Potsdam

70

Jürgen Röber

German association football player and manager

*December 25th, 1953, Gernrode

70

Tony Blair

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007

*May 6th, 1953, Edinburgh

71

Reinhard Bütikofer

German politician

*January 26th, 1953, Mannheim

70

Pierre Franckh

German actor

*May 1st, 1953, Heilbronn

70

Michael Wittenborn

German actor

*May 31st, 1953, Bielefeld

64

Stephen Paddock

American mass murderer (1953–2017)

*April 9th, 1953, Clinton †October 1st, 2017, Mandalay Bay

71

Barbara Schnitzler

German actress

*February 19th, 1953, East Berlin

34

Erland van Lidth

American sport wrestler and actor

*June 3rd, 1953, Hilversum †September 23rd, 1987, New York City

71

Richard Stallman

American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

*March 16th, 1953, Manhattan

71

Kinji Zeniya

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1953, Kaga

70

Lene Køppen

Badminton player

*May 5th, 1953, Copenhagen

70

Dominique de Villepin

95th Prime Minister of France

*November 14th, 1953, Khemisset

71

Isabelle Huppert

French actress

*March 16th, 1953, Paris

70

Tom Barrett

Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1953–)

*December 8th, 1953, Milwaukee

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No: With 365 days 1953 is a normal year and no leap year.

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