March 1 in history: • 1562 – An 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. → go there • 1869 – The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (pictured) finished his design of the first periodic table. → go there • 1921 – The 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. → go there • 1992 – A Bosnian-Serb wedding procession was attacked in Sarajevo, resulting in what is widely considered the first casualty of the Bosnian War. → go there Died 1734: Roger North Wiki link Born 1924: Deke Slayton Wiki link Born 1959: Nick Griffin Wiki link Died 1979: Mustafa Barzani Wiki link Pictured: Dmitri Mendeleev.