March 2nd
Today in America's Present Past
1699 | Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville is the first European to discover the mouth of the Mississippi River.
1769 | Politician DeWitt Clinton was born.
1776 | War of Independence: Americans began shelling the English occupiers in Boston, Massachusetts.
1778 | War of Independence: National Greene is appointed Quartermaster of the Continental Army.
1788 | FOUNDING: The first volume of the Federalist Papers was published.
1789 | Pennsylvania ended the prohibition on theatre.
1793 | Politician Sam Houston was born.
1799 | Congress: The imperial measurement system is adopted.
1807 | Congress: Passed a ban on the slave trade.
1819 | Congress: First U.S. Immigration law passed.
1824 | SCOTUS: Supreme Court decided Gibbons v. Ogden.
1824 | General Henry Beebee Carrington was born.
1831 | John Frazee became the first sculptor hired by the Federal Government.
1836 | The Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico.
1836 | SCOTUS: Justice Henry Billings Brown was born.
1849 | Entrepreneur Robert Means Thompson was born.
1860 | Temperance leader and first female mayor, Susanna M. Salter, was born.
1862 | Poet John Jay Chapman was born.
1862 | General Frederick West Lander died.
1865 | Civil War: Union forces win the Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia.
1865 | The Freedman’s Bureau was founded.
1867 | Congress: First Reconstruction Act passed.
1867 | Outlaw gang James-Younger robs a bank in Savannah, Missouri.
1868 | The University of Illinois opens.
1877 | U.S. Electoral Commission declares Rutherford B. Hayes President over Samuel J. Tilden.
1879 | Entrepreneur John Eberhard Faber died.
1899 | POTUS: Republican President McKinley signs a law creating Mount Rainier National Park.
1904 | Author Dr. Seuss was born.
1907 | Entrepreneur Jheri Robert Redding was born.
1917 | POTUS: Democrat President Woodrow Wilson the Jones-Shafroth Act.
1917 | Actor Desi Arnaz was born.
1929 | Congress: Created the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
1931 | Author Tom Wolfe was born.
1932 | General Frank E. Peterson was born.
1933 | “King Kong” film debuts.
1939 | Massachusetts votes to ratify the “Bill of Rights” 147 years after its adoption.
1942 | Author John Irving was born.
1945 | WWII: US forces bomb Dresden.
1962 | Entertainer Jon Bon Jovi was born.
1965 | The “Sound of Music” film debuts.
1965 | Vietnam: USAF begins a three-year “Operation Rolling Thunder.”
1974 | POTUS: A grand jury implicates Republican President Nixon in the “Watergate” scandal.
1991 | Journalist Clark Mollenhoff died.
2020 | Entertainer James Lipton died.