On This Day 1st March
The National Day of Wales and the Feast Day of St. David. Tradition holds that he died On This Day in 589. See 
picture
of St David, in a stained glass window at St. Asaph's Cathedral in Denbighshire.
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1711
The first edition of London's - 'The Spectator', founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
1812The birth of the architect Augustus Pugin. He is best remembered for the Palace of Westminster and his churches such as St Giles' Catholic Church in Cheadle, Staffordshire. See 
picture of St. Giles' Church. It is known as Pugin's Gem and is considered to be the finest of all his churches.
1910The birth of David Niven, the Scottish-born film actor whose films included The Pink Panther and The Guns of Navarone.
1940English actress Vivien Leigh won an Oscar for her performance as Scarlett
O'Hara in the film Gone with the Wind.
1946The British Government took control of the Bank of England, after 252
years.
1947The International Monetary Fund began financial operations. Its goal was to stabilize exchange rates and to assist the reconstruction of the world’s international payment system.
1950Klaus Fuchs, one of Britain's top atomic scientists, was sentenced to
14 years for spying in the Soviet Union.
1959The birth of Nicholas (Nick) Griffin, British politician. He was chairman of the British National Party (BNP) and Member of the European Parliament for North West England until 2014.
1966James Callaghan, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, confirmed that Britain would change over to decimal currency in 1971.
1971Hundreds of thousands of workers across Britain took part in an unofficial
day of protest against the government's new Industrial Relations Bill.
1978Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery.
1981Bobby Sands, IRA member, began his 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison, County Down.
1994Fred West was charged with two further murders following more human remains
found at his home. He had previously admitted murdering his 16 old daughter
Heather.
2006 The Senedd (see 
picture) in Cardiff Bay, was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II. It is the main public building of the National Assembly, the main centre for democracy and devolution in Wales.
2016 The death of Tony Warren (aged 79) , creator of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running TV 'soap opera' in production.
2020 The meteorological office announced that February had been the wettest in over 150 years. On a fourth consecutive weekend of terrible weather, Storm Jorge prompted weather warnings stretching from Cornwall to the north of Scotland and across to Northern Ireland.