Mamlktik

On this day
March 1: Nineteen-Day Fast begins (Baháʼí Faith, 2020); Independence Day in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992); National Pig Day in the United States; Saint David's Day in Wales; Yap Day in Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia

1811 – Muhammad Ali Pasha, governor of Ottoman Egypt, killed the Mamluk leaders of Cairo and seized power.



 1896 – French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered the principle of radioactive decay when he exposed photographic plates to uranium salts.

 1936 – Hoover Dam (pictured), straddling the Arizona–Nevada border on the Colorado River, was completed.

 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.

2014 – A group of knife-wielding terrorists attacked passengers at Kunming railway station in Kunming, China, leaving 31 victims dead and more than 140 others injured