more events on March 1
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1992
Bosnian Serbs begin sniping in Sarajevo, after Croats and Muslims vote for Bosnian independence.
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1985
The Pentagon accepts the theory that an atomic war would block the sun, causing a “nuclear winter.”
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1974
A grand jury indicts seven of President Nixon‘s aides for the conspiracy on Watergate.
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1969
Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball.
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1968
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara is replaced by Clark Clifford.
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1960
1,000 Black students pray and sing the national anthem on the steps of the old Confederate Capitol in Montgomery, Ala.
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1943
The British RAF conducts strategic bombing raids on all European railway lines.
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1942
Japanese troops land on Java in the Pacific.
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1941
Bulgaria joins the Axis as the Nazis occupy Sofia.
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1935
Germany officially establishes the Luftwaffe.
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1932
The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped from the Lindbergh home near Princeton, New Jersey.
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1930
Fran Tarkenton, NFL quarterback
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1921
Howard Nemerov, writer, another Pulitzer Prize recipient.
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Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator.
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The Allies reject a $7.5 billion reparations offer in London. German delegation decides to quit all talks.
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1919
The Korean coalition proclaims their independence from Japan.
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1917
Robert Lowell, Jr., poet, won Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for Lord Weary’s Castle.
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1915
The Allies announce their aim to cut off all German supplies and assure the safety of the neutrals.
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1914
Ralph Waldo Ellison, African-American author (Invisible Man).
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1912
Albert Berry completes the first in-flight parachute jump, from a Benoist plane over Kinlock Field in St. Louis, Missouri.
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1904
Glenn Miller, big band leader during the 1930s and ’40s.
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1875
Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, which is invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1883.
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1871
German troops enter Paris, France, during the Franco-Prussian War.
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1837
William Dean Howells, novelist.
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1815
Napoleon lands at Cannes, France, returning from exile on Elba, with a force of 1,500 men and marches on Paris.
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1810
Frédéric Chopin, composer and pianist.
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1808
In France, Napoleon creates an imperial nobility.
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1803
Ohio becomes the 17th state to join the Union.
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1780
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1776
French minister Charles Gravier advises his Spanish counterpart to support the American rebels against the English.
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1692
Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are arrested for the supposed practice of witchcraft in Salem, Mass.
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1642
York, Maine becomes the first incorporated American city.
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45
The first Leap Day is recognized by proclamation of Julius Caesar. Under the old Roman calendar, the last day of February was the last day of the year.