History for March 1

History for March 1 - On-This-Day.com
Glenn Miller 1904 - Bandleader, David Niven 1910 - Actor ("The Guns of Navarone"), Ralph Waldo Ellison 1914 - Author, essayist


Roger Daltrey 1944 - Musician (The Who), Ron Howard 1954 - Producer, actor ("The Andy Griffith Show", "Happy Days"), Justin Bieber 1994 - Singer

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


1954 - Five U.S. congressmen were wounded when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives.