📜 This Day in History
March 1
1562An attempt by François, Duke of Guise, to disperse a church service by Huguenots in Wassy, France, turned into a massacre, resulting in 50 dead, and starting the French Wars of Religion.- 1870Paraguayan War: Marshal Francisco Solano López died at the Battle of Cerro Corá.
- 1896Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
- 1921The Australian cricket team, led by Warwick Armstrong, became the first team to complete a whitewash in the Ashes, an achievement that would not be repeated for 86 years.
- 1944World War II: American and Australian troops won the Battle of Sio against Japanese forces as part of the New Guinea campaign.
- 1992A Bosnian-Serb wedding procession was attacked in Sarajevo, resulting in what is widely considered the first casualty of the Bosnian War.
