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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Mar 1925 | Al Rosen: Spartanburg, South Carolina -- 3rd baseman (AL MVP 1953) / New York Yankee President | |||
| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Mar 1950 | Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of National China on Formosa | |||
| 01 Mar 1950 | Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London) | |||
| 01 Mar 1950 | USSR issues golden rubles | |||
| 01 Mar 1950 | Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data. | |||
| 01 Mar 1950 |
death Alfred Korzybski Died 1 Mar 1950 at age 70 (born 3 Jul 1879). Polish-born American scientist and philosopher. Korzybski was the originator of general semantics, a system of linguistic philosophy that attempts to increase humanity's capacity to transmit ideas from generation to generation (what Korzybski called man's "time-binding capacity") through the study and refinement of ways of using and reacting to language. |
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01 Mar 1950
Claude Shannon |
Claude Shannon (computer science) Publication of Claude Shannon's paper "Programming a Computer for Playing Chess", seminal in the development of computer chess and introducing the Shannon number. |
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| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Mar 1975 | Maria Jose Suarez: Miss Universe - Spain (1996) | |||
| 01 Mar 1975 | 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win | |||
| 01 Mar 1975 | Tate Stevens, American singer and guitarist | |||
| 01 Mar 1975 | Francesco Mazzariol, Italian footballer and coach | |||
| 01 Mar 1975 | Maya Kulenovic, Croatian-Canadian painter | |||
| 01 Mar 1975 | The Eagles went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Best Of My Love', the first of five US No.1's for the band. The highest chart position in the UK for the group was No.8 with the 1977 single 'Hotel California.' | |||
| 01 Mar 1975 | Winners at this year's Grammy Awards included; Paul McCartney for Best pop vocal on 'Band On The Run', Olivia Newton-John won Record Of The Year for 'I Honestly Love You' and Stevie Wonder won Album of the year for 'Fulfillingness First Finale.' | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Mar 2000 | Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC. | |||
| 01 Mar 2000 | The Constitution of Finland is rewritten. | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Mar 2005 | U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional marking a change in "national standards,". | |||
| 01 Mar 2005 | Peter Malkin, Israeli secret agent (b. 1927) | |||
| 01 Mar 2005 | Nelly featuring Tim McGraw were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Over And Over', the 3rd No.1 for Nelly, and the first for Grammy Award-winning Country music singer Tim McGraw. | |||
| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Mar 2010 | Kristian Digby, English television host and director (b. 1977) | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 01 Mar 2015 | Chris Welp, German-American basketball player and coach (b. 1964) | |||
| 01 Mar 2015 | Daniel von Bargen, American actor (b. 1950) | |||
| 01 Mar 2015 | Minnie Miñoso, Cuban-American baseball player and coach (b. 1922) | |||
| 01 Mar 2015 | Joshua Fishman, American linguist and academic (b. 1926) | |||
| 01 Mar 2015 | Suzanne Farrington, English actress (b. 1933) | |||
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