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)