TODAY HISTORY LESSON: MARCH 1
0743 Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited
1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are arrested for the supposed practice of witchcraft in Salem, Mass.
1780 Pennsylvania becomes the first U.S. state to abolish slavery.(for new-borns only)
1790 The U.S. Congress authorized the first census.
1792 US Presidential Succession Act passed
1803 Ohio becomes the 17th state to join the Union.
1811 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500
1815 Napoleon lands at Cannes, France, returning from exile on Elba, with a force of 1,500 men and marches on Paris.
1845 President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas
1847 Michigan becomes 1st English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)
1867 Nebraska became the 37th state in the United States.
1875 Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, which is invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1883.
1913 Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment)
1919 The Korean coalition proclaims their independence from Japan.
1932 The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped from the Lindbergh home near Princeton, New Jersey.
1937 U.S. Steel raised workers’ wages to $5 a day.
1941 “Captain America” appears in a comic book
1947 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is formed
1954 US explodes Castle Bravo, a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll, which accidentally became the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US
1954 4 Puerto Ricans open fire in US House of Representatives injuring 5 Representatives
1960 1,000 Black students pray and sing the national anthem on the steps of the old Confederate Capitol in Montgomery, Ala.
1961 President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps.
1962 K-Mart opens
1966 The Soviet probe, Venera 3 crashed on the planet Venus. It was the first unmanned spacecraft to land on the surface of another planet.
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.
1974 A grand jury indicts seven of President Nixon’s aides for the conspiracy on Watergate.
1981 IRA member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike in Maze Prison; he would die 65 days later.
1985 The Pentagon accepts the theory that an atomic war would block the sun, causing a “nuclear winter.”
1992 Bosnian Serb snipers fired upon civilians after a majority of the Moslem and Croatian communities voted in favor of Bosnia’s independence.
1994 Israel released about 500 Arab prisoners in an effort to placate Palestinians over the Hebron massacre
1995 Internet giant Yahoo! is incorporated
1998 Titanic becomes the first film to gross $1 billion
2002 Operation Anaconda began in eastern Afghanistan. Allied forces were fighting against Taliban and Al Quaida fighters.
2003 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by CIA and Pakistani agents near Islamabad. He was the suspected mastermind behind the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
