TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Thursday, March 1, the 60th day of 2018. There are 305 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History

On March 1, 1790, President George Washington signed a measure authorizing the first United States Census. (Census Day was Aug. 2, 1790.)

On this date

1565 — The city of Rio de Janeiro was founded by Portuguese knight Estacio de Sa. 1781 — The Continental Congress declared the Articles of Confederation to be in force, following ratification by Maryland. 1867 — Nebraska became the 37th state as President Andrew Johnson signed a proclamation. 1893 — Inventor Nikola Tesla first publicly demonstrated radio during a meeting of the National Electric Light Association in St. Louis by transmitting electromagnetic energy without wires. 1932 — Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-monthold son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey. (Remains identified as those of the child were found the following May.) 1940 — “Native Son” by Richard Wright was first published by Harper & Brothers. 1968 — Johnny Cash married June Carter at the First Methodist Church in Franklin, Kentucky. 1971 — A bomb went off inside a men’s room at the U.S. Capitol; the radical group Weather Underground claimed responsibility for the pre-dawn blast. 1981 — Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he died 65 days later. 1990 — The controversial Seabrook, New Hampshire, nuclear power plant won federal permission to go on line after two decades of protests and legal struggles.