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Today in History ~ March 3
Events1791 - 1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
1801 - 1st US Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia
1803 - 1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins
1805 - Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms
1812 - US passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake victims)
1815 - US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners & demanding tribute
1820 - Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri
1837 - Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9
1842 - 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)
1843 - Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" in the US
1845 - 1st time, US Senate overrides presidential (Tyler) veto
1845 - Florida becomes 27th state
1849 - US Department of the Interior established by Congress
1855 - Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use
1861 - Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom, freeing 52,000,000 serfs
1863 - Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
1863 - Abraham Lincoln signs first Conscription Act [H]
1865 - President Lincoln signs a bill creating the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Known as the Freedmen's Bureau
1871 - Congress establishes the civil service system
1973 - Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
1877 - Rutherford B Hayes is sworn in as the 19th president
1878 - Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano)
1879 - United States Geological Survey created
1879 - 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)
1885 - American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates
1885 - Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed government)
1887 - Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller
1891 - Congress creates US Courts of Appeal
1915 - "Birth of a Nation" opens in New York
1917 - Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations
1917 - Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates
1919 - Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike
1921 - Toronto's Dr Frederick Banting & Dr Charles Best announce discovery of insulin to treat diabetes
1931 - "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem [H]
1933 - Mount Rushmore dedicated
1934 - John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol [H]
1943 - Milton Berle's radio show premieres
1945 - RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511
1945 - US & Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor
1945 - Finland declares war on Germany
1952 - Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution
1952 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds a New York state law that prohibits communists from teaching in public schools [H]
1955 - Elvis Presley made his 1st TV appearance
1968 - Greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague
1969 - Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
1971 - Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa
1985 - Willie Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million
1991 - LA Police severely beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video
1991 - Latvia & Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR
1992 - President Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging "No New Taxes" -- yeah right
Birthdays Today
1831 - George Pullman (inventor: railroad sleeping car; industrialist: Pullman Palace Car Company)
1838 - George W Hill, US astronomer (Moon orbit)
1845 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (discover transfinite numbers)
1847 - Alexander Graham Bell (teacher of the deaf, inventor: telephone; founder of Bell Telephone Company)
1853 - Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter
1872 - "Wee" Willie Keeler (baseball: still holds record for singles hit in one season [206]: Baltimore Orioles [1898])
1877 - Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor
1895 - Matthew Ridgway (Commander of the U.S. 8th Army in Korea [1951]; Supreme Allied Commander of NATO [1952]; US Army Chief of Staff)
1895 - Ragnar Frisch, Norway, economist (1st Nobel prize in economy-1969)
1904 - Mayo Methot (actress: Goodbye Love, Marked Woman)
1911 - Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpenter) KS, 30s' sex goddess (actress: Platinum Blonde, Red Dust, Bombshell, Dinner at Eight, China Seas, Libeled Lady)
1918 - Arthur Kornberg, US biochemist (Nobel 1959)
1920 - James Doohan, Vancouver BC, actor (Montgomery Scott-Star Trek)
1920 - Julius Boros (golfer: U.S. Open Champion [1952. 1963]; PGA Champion [1968])
1921 - Diana Barrymore (Blythe) (actress)
1927 - John McLaughlin, commentator (McLaughlin Report)
1932 - Chico (Humberto) Fernandez (baseball)
1933 - Paul Clayton (folk singer)
1934 - Gia Scala (actress: Don't Go Near the Water, Tunnel of Love)
1941 - John Thomas (Olympic medalist: high jump [1960 & 1964]; 2nd athlete to clear 7' [indoor high jump 1959]; Track & Field Hall of Famer)
1943 - Paul Schaal (baseball)
1946 - Johnny Fuller (football)
1947 - Dennis Shaw (football)
1949 - David Pritchard (guitarist, composer)
1949 - Joey Johnston (hockey)
1951 - Gary Hrivnak (football)
1951 - Rick Cunningham (hockey)
1952 - Randy Gradishar (football: Denver Broncos LB: Super Bowl XII)
1962 - Herschel Walker, WFL/NFL running back (NJ Generals, Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles ; Heisman Trophy winner: Georgia [1982])
1962 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Olympic gold medalist & 1st woman to hold world record in the heptathlon: 7,044 points [1992]; 1st athlete to win multi-event medals in 3 Olympics [pentathlon, long jump])
Famous deaths
1703 - Robert Hooke, scientific genius, dies in London
1707 - Aurangzeb, Emperor of India (1658-1707), dies at 88
1941 - Ernst Cahn, owner of Amsterdam Koco ice cream parlor, executed
1959 - Radio and film comedian Lou Costello, of Abbott and Costello, dies just three days shy of his 53rd birthday.
1988 - Sewall Wright, US geneticist (evolution model), dies at 98
1991 - Arthur Murray, dance instructor, dies at 95 of pneumonia
1993 - Carlos Montoya, guitarist, dies at 89
2002 - Country Music Hall of Famer Harlan Howard, "the dean of Nashville songwriters," "I Fall to Pieces," dies at 74.
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