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March 1<\/p>\n
293 \u2013 Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus (later Constantine the 1st) and Galerius as Caesars. This is considered the beginning of the Tetrarchy, known as the Quattuor Principes Mundi<\/em>\u00a0 -Four Rulers of the World.<\/p>\n 1633 \u2013 Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France, which covered most of central and northeastern North America, on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.<\/p>\n 1692 \u2013 Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning the Salem witch trials.<\/p>\n 1781 \u2013 The Articles of Confederation<\/em> goes into effect forming the first national government of the United States.<\/p>\n 1790 \u2013 The first United States census is authorized.<\/p>\n 1805 \u2013 Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n 1836 \u2013 A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington on the Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.<\/p>\n 1845 \u2013 President John Tyler signs a Joint Resolution of Congress authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas which occurred at the end of the year.<\/p>\n 1867 \u2013 Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state.<\/p>\n 1872 \u2013 President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act<\/em> into law creating Yellowstone as the first ‘national park’.<\/p>\n 1893 \u2013 Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis.<\/p>\n 1896 \u2013 Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.<\/p>\n 1910 \u2013 The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.<\/p>\n 1912 \u2013 U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry performs the first static line type parachute jump from an airplane. No information is known about whether he knew the difference between a PLF and a PFL.<\/p>\n 1917 \u2013 The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.<\/p>\n 1932 \u2013 Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.,\u00a0 the 20 month old son of aviators Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, is kidnapped from his home.<\/p>\n 1947 \u2013 The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.<\/p>\n 1950 \u2013 German born, allied atomic bomb scientist, Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union for disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 The U.S. Castle Bravo<\/em> test detonates a thermonuclear hydrogen device on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. An unforeseen nuclear reaction of the components results in a 15 megaton blast, 2 1\/2 times the expected power, the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the U.S.<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, wounding five Representatives.<\/p>\n 1956 \u2013 The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization. NATO military allies quickly adopt the new phonetic alphabet.<\/p>\n 1961\u2013\u00a0 President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.<\/p>\n 1966 \u2013 The Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet’s surface.<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 A Federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. indicts several former aides of President Nixon, known as the “Watergate Seven” for conspiring to hinder the Watergate burglary investigation. The grand jury also secretly names Nixon as an unindicted co-conspirator.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 A popular insurgency against Saddam Hussein begins in Iraq but lacking international support, ultimately fails a month later.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 In the Shahi-Kot Valley and Arma Mountains southeast of Zormat in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. forces begin an invasion –Operation Anaconda<\/em>– to engage and destroy Taliban and Al Qaeda forces.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 In the case of Roper v. Simmons<\/em>, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013 Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including 8 at Enterprise Alabama High School.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OOps March 1 293 \u2013 Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus (later Constantine the 1st) and Galerius as Caesars. 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