March 1st
Today in America's Present Past
1692 | Civil Rights: Salem Witch Trials of Sarah Goode and Sarah Osborn begin.
1732 | SCOTUS: Justice William Cushing was born.
1780 | Civil Rights: Pennsylvania outlaws slavery.
1781 | Congress: The Articles of Confederation are ratified.
1790 | Congress: The first U.S. Census is authorized.
1792 | Congress: The Presidential Succession Act is passed.
1803 | Statehood: Ohio granted statehood.
1841 | Politician Blanche Bruce was born.
1845 | POTUS: President John Tyler authorizes the annexation of the Republic of Texas.
1847 | Civil Rights: Michigan becomes the first English-speaking jurisdiction to ban the death penalty.
1848 | Sculptor August Saint-Gaudens was born.
1864 | Civil Rights: Rebecca Lee became the first African American woman to earn a medical degree.
1867 | Statehood: Nebraska granted statehood.
1867 | Howard University chartered.
1868 | America’s first female FBI Agent, Alaska Davidson, was born.
1872 | POTUS: Republican President Grant signs legislation making Yellowstone the nation’s first National Park.
1873 | E. Remington & Sons became the first to mass-produce a typewriter.
1875 | POTUS: Republican President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
1893 | Congress: Diplomatic Appropriation Act authorizes the rank of U.S. Ambassador.
1904 | Entertainer Glenn Miller was born.
1909 | The University of Minnesota created the first nursing college.
1910 | The nation’s worst avalanche near Steven’s Pass in Washington kills nearly 100 people.
1912 | U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from an airplane.
1912 | Civil Rights: New York City appoints the first female detective, Isabella Goodwin.
1913 | Novelist Ralph Ellison is born.
1914 | Broadcaster Harry Caray was born.
1916 | WWI: Germany begins attacking U.S. ships abroad.
1917 | The first U.S. land bank is chartered.
1917 | Entertainer Dinah Shore was born.
1917 | WWI: The U.S. releases the “Zimmermann Telegram” text, disclosing Germany’s attempt to bribe Mexico for support.
1917 | Poet Robert Lowell was born.
1920 | Poet Howard Nemerov was born.
1921 | Poet Richard Wilbur was born.
1927 | Entertainer Harry Belafonte was born.
1927 | Judge Robert Bork was born.
1932 | The “Lindbergh Kidnapping” occurs.
1935 | Actor Robert Conrad was born.
1936 | Boulder (now Hoover) Damn completed.
1941 | The first commercial FM radio station started broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee.
1945 | WWII: US forces liberate Monchengladbach.
1947 | The International Monetary Fund launches.
1954 | Entertainer Ron Howard was born.
1961 | POTUS: Democrat President Kennedy created the Peace Corps.
1962 | American Airlines 707 crashes in Jamaica Bay, New York.
1962 | The first “Kmart” opens in Garden City, Michigan.
1967 | Congress: Democrat Representative Adam Clayton Powell is expelled.
1970 | US commercial whale hunting ends.
1971 | Congress: There is a bomb attack on the Capitol.
1974 | POTUS: A Grand Jury indicts seven presidential aides.
1987 | Entertainer Kesha was born.
1991 | Gulf War: The U.S. Embassy in Kuwait reopens.
1991 | Inventor Edwin Land died.
1994 | Congress: The U.S. Senate rejects a Balance Budget Constitutional Amendment.
2002 | War on Terror: Operation Anaconda begins in Afghanistan.
2003 | The U.S. Customs and Secret Service moved under Homeland Security.
2004 | War on Terror: Terry Nichols is convicted of being an accomplice of Timothy McVeigh.
2012 | Journalist Andrew Breitbart died.
2016 | Actress Martha Wright died.
2020 | Entrepreneur Jack Welch died.