On this day: March 1

March 1: Independence Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992); Victory at Adwa Day in Ethiopia (1896)

Hoover Dam by Ansel Adams

• 750 BC – Romulus, the legendary co-founder of Rome, held the first Roman triumph to celebrate a military victory following the Rape of the Sabine Women.
• 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba were brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning the Salem witch trials.
• 1896 – Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
• 1936 – Hoover Dam (pictured), on the Colorado River along the Arizona–Nevada border, was completed and turned over to the Federal government of the United States.
• 1956 – The NATO phonetic alphabet, today the most widely used spelling alphabet, was first implemented by the International Civil Aviation Organization.

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