March 1 is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 305 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).
NATIONAL DADGUM THAT'S GOOD DAY
752 BC – Romulus, legendary first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following The Rape of the Sabine Women.
NATIONAL DADGUM THAT'S GOOD DAY
752 BC – Romulus, legendary first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following The Rape of the Sabine Women.
1565 – The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded by the Portugese.
1642 – Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
1781 – The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation, the agreement agreement among all thirteen original states in the United States of America that served as its first constitution.
1790 – The first United States census is authorized. The results identified 3.89 million inhabitants, including 694,000 slaves.
1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
1781 – The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation, the agreement agreement among all thirteen original states in the United States of America that served as its first constitution.
1790 – The first United States census is authorized. The results identified 3.89 million inhabitants, including 694,000 slaves.
1836 – A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.
1845 – United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
1845 – United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
1893 – Serbian-born electrical engineer Nikola Tesla demonstrates wireless power in St. Louis, Missouri.
1932 – Charles Lindbergh's son is kidnapped. The boy is found dead over two months later. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was captured, tried, convicted and was executed in the electric chair for the crime.
1936 – After 5 years of construction, Hoover Dam is completed in the Black Canyon of the COlorado River. The original name was Hoover dam under the president in office when it was begun. Early in the FDR administration, Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes, called it Boulder Dam, the name it was know for throughout the FDR years. After 14 years congress felt compelled to pass a joint resolution to change the name back to "Hoover Dam".
1950 – Cold War: German theoretical physicist, Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs, is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb information.
1953 – Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, born Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili, suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
1961 – United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1971 – A bomb explodes in a men's room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility. Signatories of the group were Karen Ashley, Bill Ayers (Barack Obama's friend), Bernardine Dohrn, John Jacobs, Jeff Jones, Gerry Long, Howie Machtinger, Jim Mellen, Terry Robbins, Mark Rudd, and Steve Tappis. The document called for creating a clandestine revolutionary party. Sounds like the next step in the revolution against Trump, since Ayers was BHO's bud.
1973 – Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
1973 – Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
1974 – The Watergate scandal: Six men of the Nixon administration are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice – Attonrney General John N. Mitchell, Harry R. (Bob) Haldemen, John D. Ehrlichman, Charles W. (Chuck) Colson, Robert C. Mardian, Gordon Strachan, and Kenneth Wells Parkinson.
1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1995 – Yahoo! is incorporated after being founded by Jerry Jang and David Filo in January 1994.
2003 – Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
2006 – English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordan Hill railway station.
2014 – At least 29 people are killed and 130 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.
BORN TODAY
1611 – John Pell, English mathematician and linguist (d. 1685)
1810 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1849)
1837 – William Dean Howells, American author, playwright, and critic (d. 1920)
1870 – E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and academic (d. 1944)
1904 – Glenn Miller, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1944)
1914 – Ralph Ellison, American author and critic (d. 1994)
1922 – Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli general and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
2003 – Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
2006 – English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordan Hill railway station.
2014 – At least 29 people are killed and 130 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.
BORN TODAY
1611 – John Pell, English mathematician and linguist (d. 1685)
1810 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1849)
1837 – William Dean Howells, American author, playwright, and critic (d. 1920)
1870 – E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and academic (d. 1944)
1904 – Glenn Miller, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1944)
1914 – Ralph Ellison, American author and critic (d. 1994)
1922 – Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli general and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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