History for March 1

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William Dean Howells 1837 - Author, Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848, Glenn Miller 1904 - Bandleader


David Niven 1910 - Actor ("The Guns of Navarone"), Ralph Waldo Ellison 1914 - Author, essayist, Yitzhak Rabin 1922 - Israeli politician


1692 - In Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged.


1781 - In America, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.


1872 - The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of Yellowstone National Park. It was the world's first national park.


1873 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, NY, began the manufacturing the first practical typewriter.


1912 - Captain Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.


1941 - FM Radio began in Nashville, TN, when station W47NV began operations.


2003 - In the U.S., approximately 180,000 personnel from 22 different organizations around the government became part of the Department of Homeland Security. This completed the largest government reorganization since the beginning of the Cold War.


2003 - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by CIA and Pakistani agents near Islamabad. He was the suspected mastermind behind the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.