Boy, March 1st seems to have been a busy day..
Some events of note..
On March 1, 1781, the Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
On March 1, 1790 – The first United States census is authorized.
On March 1, 1803 – Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
On March 1, 1805 – Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.
On March 1, 1836 – A Convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.
On March 1, 1845 – President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
On March 1, 1867 - Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
On March 1, 1872 - Yellowstone National Park is established as the world’s first national park.
On March 1, 1873 – E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
On March 1, 1896 – Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
On March 1, 1912 – Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
On March 1, 1932, the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J.
On March 1, 1936 - The Hoover Dam is completed.
On March 1, 1946 – The Bank of England is nationalised.
On March 1, 1947 – The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
On March 1, 1953 – Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.
On March 1, 1954 – Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
On March 1, 1954 – Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives. (See U.S. Capitol shooting incident (1954).)
On March 1, 1961 – President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps
On March 1, 1971 – A bomb explodes in a men’s room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
On March 1, 1974 – Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice. Former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman and former Attorney General John Mitchell were indicted on obstruction of justice charges related to the Watergate break-in.
On March 1, 1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Yugoslavia.
On March 1, 1992 - Senator Brock Adams, D-Wash., abandoned his re-election campaign after eight women accused him in a Seattle Times report of sexual abuse and harassment.
On March 1, 2003 – Suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by CIA and Pakistani agents neat Islamabad.
On March 1, 2004 – Terry Nichols is convicted of state murder charges and being an accomplice to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
On March 1, 2005 - Dennis Rader, the churchgoing family man accused of leading a double life as the BTK serial killer, was charged in Wichita, Kansas, with 10 counts of first-degree murder. (Rader later pleaded guilty and received multiple life sentences.)
On March 1, 2005 – A closely divided Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty for juvenile criminals.
On March 1, 2006 – The first confirmed case of H5N1 bird flu virus in Switzerland, a dead swan on Lake Geneva, near the city of Geneva.
On March 1, 2007 – Tornadoes swarm across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths were at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
On March 1, 2007 – The Army general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center was relieved of command after disclosures about the dilapidated buildings and inadequate treatment of wounded soldiers.
BIRTHS (just those names that jumped out at me..)
March 1, 1810 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French composer and pianist (d. 1849)
March 1, 1904 – Glenn Miller, American bandleader (d. 1944)
March 1, 1910 – David Niven, English actor (d. 1983)
March 1, 1922 – Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1995)
March 1, 1927 – Harry Belafonte, American musician and activist
March 1, 1944 – Roger Daltrey, English musician (The Who)
March 1, 1954 - Ron Howard, American actor and director
2 Comments
March 1, 2008 at 5:22 pm
On March 1st 1942, my old man had supervised the ‘clearing’ of the last of three camouflaged dirt airfields to receive, service and refuel 15-18 B25 bombers, each (redundancy!), that were due to strike Tokyo in April. He was 14 days ahead of schedule, using thousands of more then willing Chinese laborers. The airfields were not used because Doolittle freaked out and launched the force early when a Japanese fishing fleet was espied about 200 miles short of the planned launch point. The fields were about 120 miles beyond range because of the early launch.
March 1, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Cool!! I love this! We should have these more often.