On March 1
On March 1, 3 pivotal events are recorded in the Human Saga, including Yellowstone, the world's first national park (1872).
On this day
On 1 March 1872 President Ulysses S. Grant signed the act establishing Yellowstone National Park in the territories of Wyoming and Montana, creating the first federally protected national park in the world.
On 1 March 1896, near the town of Adwa in northern Ethiopia, an Ethiopian army under Emperor Menelik II decisively defeated an invading Italian colonial force led by General Oreste Baratieri.
On 1 March 1954 the United States detonated Castle Bravo, a lithium-deuteride-fuelled thermonuclear device, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands as the opening shot of Operation Castle.