On March 1, 1932, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J. (Remains identified as those of the child were found the following May.)
In 1565, the city of Rio de Janeiro was established.
In 1692, the notorious witch-hunt began in the Salem village of the Massachusetts Bay colony, eventually resulting in the executions of 19 innocent men and women.
In 1780, Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish slavery.
In 1781, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, following ratification by Maryland.
In 1790, President George Washington signed a measure authorizing the first U.S. Census.
In 1803, Ohio was admitted to the union as the 17th state.
In 1809, the Illinois Territory came into existence.
In 1845, President John Tyler signed a congressional resolution to annex the Republic of Texas.
In 1867, Nebraska became the 37th state.
In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed an act creating Yellowstone National Park. It was the first area in the world to be designated a national park.
In 1890, J.P. Lippincott published the first U.S. edition of the Sherlock Holmes mystery "A Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle.
In 1922, Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem.
In 1940, the novel "Native Son" by Richard Wright was first published by Harper and Brothers.
In 1954, Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen. Meanwhile, the United Snakes was irradiating other island people.
In 1959, Archbishop Makarios III returned to Cyprus following an agreement on Cypriot independence from Britain. (Makarios went on to be elected the first president of the Republic of Cyprus.)
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps.
In 1971, a bomb exploded in a restroom in the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol, causing $300,000 damage but no injuries. The Weather Underground, a leftist radical group that opposed the Vietnam War, claimed responsibility.
In 1974, 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.
In 1981, Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he died 65 days later.
In 1990, the Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant won federal permission to go on line after two decades of protests and legal struggles.
In 1991, the United States reopened its embassy in newly liberated Kuwait. Also in 1991, after 23 years of insurgency in Colombia, the Popular Liberation Army put down its arms in exchange for two seats in the national assembly.
In 1992, the collapse of a building housing a cafe in East Jerusalem killed 23 people.
In 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.
In 1996, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who reportedly had assisted more than two dozen suicides, was acquitted of murder for a third time.
In 1999, the General Accounting Office released an audit of the Internal Revenue Service which found chronic problems in the agency's record-keeping. An attack by Rwandan Hutu rebels in a Ugandan national park left eight foreign tourists, including two Americans and a park guard, dead.
In 2000, candidates in both major parties turned their focus to Super Tuesday, a day after Texas Governor George W. Bush won Leap Day primaries in Virginia, North Dakota and Washington state, while Vice President Al Gore won in Washington state. A gunman in Wilkinsburg, Pa. fatally shot three men and wounded two others; the shooter, Ronald Taylor, was later convicted and sentenced to death. 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. (The boy shooter was never prosecuted because of his age.) In a rare unanimous vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to allow most Social Security recipients to earn as much money as they want without losing any benefits.
In 2003, suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by Pakistani and CIA agents. Also in 2003, as the possibility of war in Iraq grew, Turkey's parliament refused to permit U.S. troops on Turkish soil.
In 2004, rebels rolled into Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, where they were met by thousands of residents cheering the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide the day before, on Leap Day. Iraqi officials approved an interim constitution. The California Supreme Court ruled a Roman Catholic charity had to pay for workers' contraceptive health insurance benefits.
In 2005, Dennis Rader, the churchgoing family man accused of leading a double life as the BTK serial killer, was charged in Wichita, Kan. with 10 counts of first-degree murder. (Rader later pleaded guilty and received multiple life sentences.) A closely divided Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty for juvenile criminals.
In 2006, U.S. President George W. Bush made an unscheduled visit to Afghanistan to discuss security matters.
In 2007, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., announced that he would be a candidate for president in 2008. Also in 2007, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who served as an adviser in the Kennedy Administration, died at age 89.
In 2008, President George W. Bush, speaking at his Texas ranch, declined to promise more US troop withdrawals from Iraq before leaving, underscoring the need for a strong military presence during Iraqi provincial elections. The USS New York, an amphibious assault ship built with scrap steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center, was christened at Avondale, La. Raul Reyes, the No. 2 commander of the Colombian rebel group FARC, was slain during a cross-border raid into Ecuador by Colombian security forces. New York's famed Plaza Hotel reopened after a three-year, $400 million renovation. The Dow Jones industrials fell 315.17 points and went into March at 12,266.39 after a fourth consecutive monthly drop. Crude oil prices topped $101 a barrel. Also in 2008, Israeli forces carried out more attacks in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 45 Palestinians, reports said. About 60 others were injured.
In 2009, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations concluded its 14th annual summit in Thailand by vowing to push ahead with plans to become a European Union-style economic community by 2015. At a one-day summit in Brussels, European Union leaders flatly rejected a new multibillion euro bailout for eastern Europe. Longstanding rivalries between civilian and military leaders in the small West African nation of Guinea Bissau led to the assassinations of two of the country's top officials. President Joao Bernardo Vieira and Gen. Batista Tagme Na Waie, the army chief of staff, were slain in separate attacks within a short time of each other.
longstanding rivalries between civilian and military leaders in the small West African nation of Guinea Bissau led to the assassinations of two of the country's top officials. President Joao Bernardo Vieira and Gen. Batista Tagme Na Waie, the army chief of staff, were slain in separate attacks within a short time of each other.
Today's Birthdays: Actor Robert Clary is 84. Singer Harry Belafonte is 83. Former U.S. Solicitor General Robert H. Bork is 83. Actor Robert Conrad is 75. Rock singer Mike D'Abo (Manfred Mann) is 66. Former Senator John Breaux (D-La.) is 66. Rock singer Roger Daltrey is 66. Actor Dirk Benedict is 65. Actor Alan Thicke is 63. Actor-director Ron Howard is 56. Actress Catherine Bach is 56. Country singer Janis Gill (aka Janis Oliver Cummins) (Sweethearts of the Rodeo) is 56. Actor Tim Daly is 54. Singer-musician Jon Carroll is 53. Rock musician Bill Leen is 48. Actor Maurice Bernard is 47. Hockey Hall of Famer Ron Francis is 47 Actor Russell Wong is 47. Actor John David Cullum is 44. Actor George Eads is 43. Actor Javier Bardem is 41. Actor Jack Davenport is 37. Rock musician Ryan Peake (Nickelback) is 37. Basketball player Chris Webber is 37. Actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar is 36. Actor Jensen Ackles is 32. TV host Donovan Patton is 32. Rock musician Sean Woolstenhulme is 29. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sammie is 23.
Corpses Born On This Date & Awaiting Rapture Include: Polish composer Frederic Chopin (1810); author William Dean Howells, who said "Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week." (1837); big band leader Glenn Miller (1904); actor David Niven (1910); writer Ralph Ellison (1913); legendary St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Caray (1914); poet Robert Lowell (1917); Mad magazine publisher William Gaines (1922); & Donald "Deke" Slayton, an original Mercury astronaut (1924).
Today In Entertainment March 1
In 1968, country musicians Johnny Cash and June Carter were married in Franklin, Kentucky.
In 1972, singer Merle Haggard was pardoned by California Governor Ronald Reagan. Haggard had served time for attempted burglary.
In 1973, New York's Joffrey Ballet gave its first performance of "Deuce Coupe Ballet," which was set entirely to Beach Boys music.
In 1977, Sara Lowndes Dylan filed for divorce from Bob Dylan. The divorce would be granted in June of that year.
In 1980, singer Patti Smith married guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith of MC Five in Detroit.
In 1987, actress Cybill Shepherd and chiropractor Bruce Oppenheim were married. They filed for divorce in 1989.
In 1991, the Oliver Stone movie "The Doors" opened in the US, with Val Kilmer portraying singer Jim Morrison. Also in 1991, Gloria Estefan opened her first tour after suffering a broken back in a bus accident, with a show in Miami.
In 1993, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel got together for a concert to help needy children in Los Angeles. They had reunited only a few times in the previous two decades.
In 1995, drummer Bill Berry of R.E.M. left the stage during a concert in Switzerland after having a brain aneurysm.
In 1996, rapper Queen Latifah pleaded guilty to carrying a loaded gun in her car. She was fined and ordered to make a donation to a boys and girls club.
Thought for Today: "Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end." — David Niven, British actor (born this date in 1910, died 1983).
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