On This Day:
Saturday March 1, 2014 This is the 60th day of the year, with 305 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: photographs A photograph can capture or record a moment; it can show beauty and happiness or suffering and cruelty. Photography is complex and challenging and is a relatively new technology. The word, derived from the Greek photos "light" and graphein "to draw, write," was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839. As technological advances have improved photographic equipment, materials, and techniques, the scope of photography has expanded enormously. With high-speed photography, certain aspects of motion have been made visible, hidden wonders of nature have been revealed, and planets can be observed in new ways. One of the most famous photographs ever taken appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic and featured a 12-year-old Afghan girl with green eyes. The photograph was taken by photojournalist Steve McCurry and captivated the world in a similar way to the portrait of the Mona Lisa and the Iwo Jima flag-raising photograph of World War II.
Holidays Feast day of St. David, St. Swithbert, and St. Felix III, pope.
Wales: St. David's Day.
Scotland: Whuppity Scoorie.
Bosnia-Herzegovina: National Day.
Iceland: Beer Day.
Korea: Samiljol / Independence Movement Day.
Paraguay: National Heroes' Day.
Events 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 - The peseta lost its legal tender status in Spain, and is replaced with the euro (€).
2002 - NASA said its Mars Odyssey spacecraft had found evidence that vast regions of Mars may have had water.
2006 - Tarja Halonen is inaugurated as president of Finland for the second and last time.
2006 - English-language Wikipedia adds its one millionth article.
Births 1904 - Glenn Miller, American composer and bandleader.
1914 - Harry Caray (born Harry Christopher Carabina), American sportscaster.
1917 - Robert Lowell, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
1922 - Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
1944 - Roger Daltrey, English musician.
1954 - Ron Howard, American actor, director.
1974 - Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor.
1989 - Carlos Vela, Mexican football striker.
Deaths 1984 - Jackie Coogan, American film actor who in 1921 played the child in Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid."
1988 - Joe Besser, American comic actor.
1991 - Edwin H. Land, American scientist and inventor.
1995 - Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist, recipient of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
2007 - Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider.
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