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Events on March 1

• 1815 Napoleon returns from his exile on Elba to France and assumes power for the Hundred Days.
• 1879 At his home, the engineer Werner Siemens installs a carbon arc lamp that he developed for street lighting. Shortly afterward, the city of Berlin becomes the first in the world to equip a stretch of street with this electrical light source.
• 1882 The German merchant Oscar Tietz opens his first department store in Gera with the support of his uncle Hermann Tietz, laying the foundation for one of the largest German department store groups, the later Hertie Waren- und Kaufhaus GmbH.
• 1901 The Wuppertal Suspension Railway begins operating on the first Zoologischer Garten–Kluse section.
• 1935 The Saarland is once again fully reintegrated into the German Reich but remains a political unit.
• 1952 After the island was occupied and used as a bombing site by the Royal Air Force following the end of the Second World War, Great Britain returns the island of Heligoland to Germany.
• 1953 After a dinner with Georgy Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin, and Nikita Khrushchev, Josef Stalin suffers a stroke and dies from its effects four days later.
• 1972 The apprentice Richard Epple, who, without a driving licence and under the influence of alcohol, is stopped by a police patrol, is shot dead by the police after a chase, with the police believing him to be an RAF member.
• 1983 The Swatch Group AG introduces the Swatch watch in Zurich.
• 1990 The Hans Modrow government's ordinance on civilian service in the GDR enters into force, thereby replacing substitute military service with service as a construction soldier.
• 1992 The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Yugoslavia following a disputed referendum.
• 2018 The Saarland state parliament elects Tobias Hans, the former leader of the CDU parliamentary group in Saarbrücken, as the new Minister-President, succeeding Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who moved into federal politics as the CDU's general secretary.

Born on March 1

• 1871 Ernst Leitz II, German entrepreneur
• 1904 Glenn Miller, American jazz trombonist, bandleader, composer, and arranger
• 1910 David Niven, British actor
• 1922 Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli military officer, diplomat, politician, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1940 Erich Schleyer, German-Austrian actor and author
• 1951 Susanne Albrecht, German terrorist
• 1982 Maximilian Claus, German actor
• 1991 Florian Hübner, German footballer
• 1993 Juan Bernat, Spanish footballer
• 2000 Ahmed Kutucu, Turkish-German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „1. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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