On This Day:
Sunday March 1, 2015 This is the 60th day of the year, with 305 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: Mardi Gras Mardi Gras is French for 'Fat Tuesday', and is a festive day celebrated in France on the Tuesday (Shrove Tuesday) before Ash Wednesday, which marks the close of the pre-Lenten season. In the United States the festival is most elaborately celebrated in New Orleans.
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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