Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 1

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 * 1805 – Samuel Chase, the only Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to be impeached, was acquitted by the Senate.
 * 1870 – Paraguayan War: Marshal Francisco Solano López died at the Battle of Cerro Corá.
 * 1872 – Yellowstone National Park (bison pictured), located mostly in the present-day U.S. state of Wyoming, was established by President Ulysses S. Grant.
 * 1896 – Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
 * 1896 – French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered the principle of radioactive decay when he exposed photographic plates to uranium salts.
 * 1921 – The Kronstadt rebellion began following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in Russia with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.
 * 1944 – World War II: American and Australian troops won the Battle of Sio against Japanese forces as part of the New Guinea campaign.
 * 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.
 * 1973 – Pink Floyd's critically acclaimed album The Dark Side of the Moon was released.
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