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Today in History ~ March 1
Beer Day in Iceland [H]
Events0293 - Roman emperor Maximianus introduces tetrarchy
0743 - Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited
1260 - Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus
1692 - Salem Witch Hunt begins [H]
1780 - Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only)
1781 - Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation, paving the way for a federal union.
1790 - Congress authorized the first U.S. Census.
1845 - President Tyler signed a congressional resolution to annex the Republic of Texas.
1864 - Rebecca Lee became the first black woman to receive an American medical degree, from the New England Female Medical College in Boston.
1867 - Nebraska became the 37th state.
1872 - Congress authorized creation of Yellowstone National Park, world's 1st national park [H]
1912 - Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane
1912 - Isabella Goodwin, 1st US woman detective, appointed, NYC
1913 - Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment)
1916 - Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic
1932 - Aviator Charles Lindbergh's young son was kidnapped. The boy's body was found May 12th, and Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the crime in 1936.
1933 - Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks
1937 - 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Ct)
1941 - 1st US commercial FM radio station (W47NV) goes on the air,
1945 - FDR announces success of Yalta Conference
1947 - International Monetary Fund begins operation (IMF/World Bank)
1949 - Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ
1950 - Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years for atomic espionage (London)
1954 - Four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen.
1955 - Israeli assault on Gaza, kills 48
1961 - President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp [H]
1962 - American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95
1969 - Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium
1970 - End of US commercial whale hunting
1971 - Bomb attack on the Capitol in Wash DC
1974 - Watergate grand jury indicts 7 presidential aides
1975 - The Honda Civic was introduced to the United States market
1977 - Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards
1977 - US extends territorial waters to 200 miles
1978 - Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery
1981 - Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he died 65 days later.
1985 - Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter
1988 - Apple introduces CD-ROM drive
1991 - After 23 years of insurgency in Colombia, the Popular Liberation Army laid down its arms in exchange for two seats in the national assembly.
1991 - President Bush said "we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all" following the allied victory in the Gulf War. The U.S. embassy in Kuwait officially reopened.
1992 - Sen. Brock Adams abandoned his re-election campaign after eight women accused him in a Seattle Times report of sexual abuse and harassment.
1992, 23 people were killed in the collapse of a building housing a cafe in East Jerusalem.
1993 - Federal agents opened negotiations with Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh in a vain attempt to convince him and his followers to surrender.
1993 - Yankees owner George Steinbrenner returned to active operations after a two-and-a-half-year suspension.
1994 - The Muslim-dominated government of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Bosnia's Croats agreed to a federation embracing portions of their war-torn country under their control.
1996 - New toll-free 888 area code introduced
1996 - Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who has assisted more than two dozen suicides, was again acquitted of murder.
1996 - Serbian Gen. Djordje Djukic was charged with war crimes, but died from pancreatic cancer less than two months later.
1996 - President Clinton slapped economic sanctions on Colombia, concluding authorities had not fully cooperated with the U.S. war on drugs.
1996 - The Food and Drug Administration approved a powerful new AIDS drug, saying ritonavir could prolong the lives of severely ill patients, at least slightly.
1997 - Severe storms hit Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi, and spawned tornadoes in Arkansas blamed for two dozen deaths.
1997 - Rescue teams fought snow, high winds and wild dogs as they tried to bring help to an earthquake-devastated region in northwest Iran, where the death toll was estimated at 3,000.
1999 - Rwandan rebels killed eight tourists, including two Americans, a Ugandan game warden and three rangers in a national forest in Uganda.
2000 - Candidates in both major parties turned their focus to Super Tuesday, a day after Texas Gov. George W. Bush won primaries in Virginia, North Dakota and Washington state.
2000 - A gunman in Wilkinsburg, Pa., fatally shot three men and wounded two others.
2000 - Classes were canceled at Buell Elementary School in Mount Morris Township, Mich., a day after 6-year-old Kayla Rolland was fatally shot by a fellow first-grader.
2000 - In a rare unanimous vote, the House passed a bill to allow most Social Security recipients to earn as much money as they want without losing any benefits.
2001 - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, defying international protests, began destroying all statues in the country.
2001 - Seven foreign oil workers (a Chilean, an Argentine, a New Zealander and four Americans) who were kidnapped the previous October in Ecuador's jungle were freed after a ransom was reportedly paid.
Birthdays Today
1810 - Fredric Chopin, Poland, composer/pianist
1837 - William Dean Howells (author: Life of Lincoln, A Modern Instance, The Rise of Silas Lapham; U.S. consul to Italy; editor: Atlantic Monthly; columnist: Harper's Monthly)
1904 - Glen Miller (bandleader: Moonlight Serenade, In the Mood, Little Brown Jug, Chattanooga Choo-Choo, String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction, Perfidia; led WWII U.S. Army Air Force Band)
1910 - David Niven (Academy Award-winning actor: Separate Tables [1958], Moon is Blue, Paper Tiger, The Pink Panther, The Guns of Navarone, Around the World in 80 Days, Casino Royale)
1917 - Dinah (Frances) Shore (singer: Dear Hearts and Gentle People, Yes My Darling Daughter, Anniversary Song, Buttons and Bows, Blues in the Night; Emmy (10) Award-winning The Dinah Shore Chevy Show)
1917 - Robert Lowell (Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Lord Weary's Castle [1947], The Dolphin [1974]; National Book Award for Poetry [1960])
1922 - Michael Flanders (comedian)
1922 - William M Gaines, publisher (MAD Magazine)
1922 - Yitzhak Rabin (Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner [1994])
1924 - Deke (Donald) Kent Slayton (astronaut: Apollo Mission(Apollo 18), July 1975; chief of flight operations at Johnson Space Center)
1926 - Pete Rozelle (football: former commissioner of the NFL)
1926 - Robert Clary (Widerman) (actor: Hogan's Heroes, Holocaust Survivors/Remembrance of Love)
1927 - Harry Belafonte (singer: The Banana Boat Song, Jamaica Farewell, Mary's Boy Child; actor: Island in the Sun, Buck and the Preacher; UNICEF goodwill ambassador; Shari's father)
1927 - Robert Heron Bork, judge, nominated for supreme court
1930 - Benny Powell (trombone player)
1935 - Robert Conrad (Falk) (actor: The Wild Wild West, High Mountain Rangers with sons: Christian & Shane, Crossfire, Lady in Red, Samurai Cowboy)
1943 - Mauro Checcoli, Italy, 3 day equestrian (Olympic-gold-1964)
1944 - Roger Daltry (singer: group: The Who: Pinball Wizard, Won't Get Fooled Again; solo: Without Your Love, Giving It All Away; actor: Tommy, Lisztomania, The Legacy and McVicar)
1946 - Lana Wood, [Svetlana Gurdin], Santa Rosa Calif, (Diamonds are Forever)
1952- Brian Winters (basketball)
1954 - Ron Howard (actor: The Andy Griffith Show, Happy Days, American Graffiti; director: Cocoon, Backdraft, Splash, Apollo 13)
1956 - Mark Todd, UK, NZ equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
Famous deaths
0965 - Leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies
1131 - Stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies
1510 - Francisco d'Almeida, viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59
1865 - Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70
1892 - Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist, dies at 60
1911 - Jacobus Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58
1947 - J Boogaard, nazi collaborator, executed
1979 - Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), dies at 75
1988 - Joe Besser, comedian (3's Stooges, Abbott & Costello), dies at 80
1991 - Edwin H. Land, inventor of polarizing filters and Polaroid instant photography, died in Cambridge, Mass., at age 81.
1994 - Walter Kent, US composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82
1995 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian TV-journalist, murdered at 38
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