This Day In History — First Census Taken

March 01

1790
The U.S. Congress authorized the first census.

1803
Ohio became the 17th state in the United States.

1864
Rebecca Lee was the first black woman awarded a medical degree.

1867
Nebraska became the 37th state in the United States.

1872
Yellowstone became the world’s first National Park.

1932
The 20-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped.

1961
President John F. Kennedy signed a signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps.

1981
IRA member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike in Maze Prison; he would die 65 days later.

Birthdays

Ralph Ellison
1914–1994, American author.

Frederic Chopin
composer (1810)

Augustus Saint-Gaudens
sculptor (1848)

Glenn Miller
bandleader, and composer (1904)

David Niven
actor (1910)

Robert Lowell
poet (1917)

Yitzhak Rabin
Israeli Prime Minister (1922)

Harry Belafonte
singer, actor (1927)

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