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March 1st
1642 - York, Maine became the first incorporated American city.
1780 - Pennsylvania became the first U.S. state to abolish slavery.
1781 - The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
1790 - Congress authorized the first U.S. Census.
1803 - Ohio became the 17th state.
1845 - President John Tyler signed a congressional resolution to annex the Republic of Texas.
1867 - Nebraska became the 37th state.
1872 - Yellowstone became the first area in the world to be designated a national park, established by an act of Congress.
1932 - The infant son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was kidnapped from their home in New Jersey.
1954 - In the U.S. Capitol, four members of an extremist Puerto Rican nationalist group opened fire at the floor of the House of Representatives from a visitors' gallery, injuring five U.S. representatives.
1954 - The first American hydrogen bomb was "officially" detonated at the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
1966 - Venera 3, a Soviet probe, collided with Venus. It was the first unmanned spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
2002 - NASA said its Mars Odyssey spacecraft had found evidence that vast regions of Mars may have had water.
2004 - Haiti's President Jean-Bertrand Aristide stepped down.
Silky
1642 - York, Maine became the first incorporated American city.
1780 - Pennsylvania became the first U.S. state to abolish slavery.
1781 - The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
1790 - Congress authorized the first U.S. Census.
1803 - Ohio became the 17th state.
1845 - President John Tyler signed a congressional resolution to annex the Republic of Texas.
1867 - Nebraska became the 37th state.
1872 - Yellowstone became the first area in the world to be designated a national park, established by an act of Congress.
1932 - The infant son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was kidnapped from their home in New Jersey.
1954 - In the U.S. Capitol, four members of an extremist Puerto Rican nationalist group opened fire at the floor of the House of Representatives from a visitors' gallery, injuring five U.S. representatives.
1954 - The first American hydrogen bomb was "officially" detonated at the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
1966 - Venera 3, a Soviet probe, collided with Venus. It was the first unmanned spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
2002 - NASA said its Mars Odyssey spacecraft had found evidence that vast regions of Mars may have had water.
2004 - Haiti's President Jean-Bertrand Aristide stepped down.
Silky