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March 1
1565 The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
1642 Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
1692 Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
1713 The siege and destruction of Fort Neoheroka begins during the Tuscarora War in North Carolina, effectively opening up the colony's interior to European colonization.
1781 The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
1815 Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba, start of the Hundred Days.
1845 United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
1867 Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
1872 Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
1893 Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
1896 Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
1901 The Australian Army is formed.
1910 The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
1932 Charles Lindbergh's son is reportedly kidnapped.
1936 The Hoover Dam is completed.
1946 The Bank of England is nationalised.
1953 Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
1954 Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
1954 Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
1961 United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1995 Yahoo! is incorporated.
1998 Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
2006 English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
Births
1810 Frιdιric Chopin, 1904 Glenn Miller, 1910 David Niven, 1914 Harry Caray, 1914 Ralph Ellison, 1924 Deke Slayton, 1926 Pete Rozelle, 1927 Harry Belafonte, 1935 Robert Conrad, 1942 Jerry Fisher, 1944 Roger Daltrey, 1944 Mike d'Abo, 1945 Dirk Benedict, 1947 Alan Thicke, 1952 Nevada Barr, 1954 Ron Howard, 1956 Tim Daly, 1967 George Eads, 1969 Javier Bardem, 1983 Lupita Nyong'o
Deaths
1620 Thomas Campion, 1984 Jackie Coogan, 1988 Joe Besser, 1991 Edwin H. Land, 2013 Bonnie Franklin
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