March 1

March 1 is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years). 305 days remain until the end of the year.

“A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.”

Yitzhak Rabin

Born today

• Yitzhak Rabin, 1922, Israeli statesman, soldier, and the 5th Prime Minister of Israel

Observances

• Beer Day, marked the end of beer prohibition in 1989 (Iceland)

• Commemoration of Mustafa Barzani's Death (Iraqi Kurdistan)

• Day of the Balearic Islands (Spain)

• Disability Day of Mourning

• Heroes' Day (Paraguay)

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992.

• National "Cursed Soldiers" Remembrance Day (Poland)

• National Pig Day (US)

• Remembrance Day (Marshall Islands)

• Samiljeol (South Korea)

• Self-injury Awareness Day (international)

• Southeastern Europe celebration of the beginning of spring:

  • Baba Marta Day (Bulgaria)

  • Mărțișor (Romania and Moldova)

• The final day (fourth or fifth) of Ayyám-i-Há (Baháʼí Faith)

• World Seagrass Day

• Yap Day (Yap State)

• Zero Discrimination Day