Today in History

March 1

1896 - Ethiopian forces defeat Italians at Adwa, northern Ethiopia.

1936 - The world’s first public videophone service is launched at the Leipzig Trade Fair in Germany.

1946 - The Bank of England is nationalised.

1966 - The Soviet Union lands a spacecraft on Venus.

1981 - Bobby Sands, a 26-yearold Irish Republican Army member begins a hunger strike at the Maze prison.

1992 - Bosnia and Herzegovina vote for independence from Yugoslavia.

2002 - US space shuttle Columbia carries out a mission to repair and refurbish the Earth-orbiting Hubble space telescope.

2019 - Pakistan releases an Indian Air Force pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman.