martes, 1 de marzo de 2011

March 1

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.

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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

Yitzhak Rabin3/1/1922 - 11/4/1995Israeli Prime minister.Go to obituary »

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