On March 1, 1932, the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J.
On March 1, 1922, Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister who worked for peace with Palestinian and Arab neighbors, was born. Following his death on Nov. 4, 1995, his obituary appeared in The Times.
On This Date
1781 | The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation. |
1790 | Congress authorized the first U.S. census. |
1845 | President John Tyler signed a congressional resolution to annex the Republic of Texas. |
1867 | Nebraska became the 37th state. |
1872 | Congress authorized creation of Yellowstone National Park. |
1922 | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem. |
1940 | The novel "Native Son" by Richard Wright was published. |
1954 | Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen. |
1961 | President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps. |
1968 | Country musicians Johnny Cash and June Carter were married. |
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. |
1981 | Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. (He died 65 days later.) |
1990 | The Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant won federal permission to go on line after two decades of protests and legal struggles. |
2003 | Suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by CIA and Pakistani agents near Islamabad. |
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.) |
2005 | A closely divided Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty for juvenile criminals. |
Current Birthdays
Singer Harry Belafonte turns 84 years old today.
AP Photo/Charles Sykes
Actor George Eads ("CSI") turns 44 years old today.
AP Photo/Dan Steinberg
1926 | Robert Clary, Actor ("Hogan's Heroes"), turns 85 |
1927 | Robert H. Bork, Former U.S. solicitor general, turns 84 |
1935 | Robert Conrad, Actor, turns 76 |
1944 | John Breaux, Former U.S. senator, D-La., turns 67 |
1944 | Roger Daltrey, Rock singer (The Who), turns 67 |
1945 | Dirk Benedict, Actor, turns 66 |
1947 | Alan Thicke, Actor ("Growing Pains"), turns 64 |
1954 | Catherine Bach, Actress ("The Dukes of Hazzard"), turns 57 |
1954 | Ron Howard, Actor, director, turns 57 |
1956 | Tim Daly, Actor ("Wings"), turns 55 |
1963 | Ron Francis, Hockey Hall of Famer, turns 48 |
1966 | John David Cullum, Actor, turns 45 |
1969 | Javier Bardem, Actor ("No Country for Old Men"), turns 42 |
1973 | Chris Webber, Basketball player, turns 38 |
Historic Birthdays
70 | Antoninus 3/1/1389 - 5/2/1459
Italian Archbishop of Florence |
52 | Simon Foucher 3/1/1644 - 4/27/1696
French ecclesiastic philosopher |
78 | William Maxwell Cushing 3/1/1732 - 9/13/1810
American jurist - first Supreme Court appointee |
39 | Frederic Chopin 3/1/1810 - 10/17/1849
Polish/French composer and pianist |
59 | Augustus Saint-Gaudens 3/1/1848 - 8/3/1907
American sculptor |
51 | Lytton Strachey 3/1/1880 - 1/21/1932
English biographer and critic |
40 | Glenn Miller 3/1/1904 - 12/16/1944
American composer and band leader |
73 | David Niven 3/1/1910 - 7/29/1983
English stage and screen actor |
60 | Robert Lowell 3/1/1917 - 9/12/1977
American poet |
70 | William Maxwell Gaines 3/1/1922 - 6/3/1992
American publisher of Mad magazine |
69 | Donald "Deke" Slayton 3/1/1924 - 6/13/1993
American astronaut |
70 | Pete Rozelle 3/1/1926 - 12/6/1996
American National Football League Commissioner |
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