DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Friday, March 1, the 61st day of 2024. There are 305 days left in the year.
On this date in:
1815: Napoleon, having escaped exile in Elba, arrived in Cannes, France, and headed for Paris to begin his “Hundred Days” rule.
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-month-old 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.)
1945: President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
back from the Yalta Conference, proclaimed the meeting a success as he addressed a joint session of Congress.
1954: Four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the spectators’ gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five members of Congress.
1966: The Soviet space probe Venera 3 impacted the surface of Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to reach another planet; however, Venera was unable to transmit any data, its communications system having failed.
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.
1974: Seven people, including former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, former Attorney General John Mitchell and former assistant Attorney General Robert Mardian, were indicted on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice in connection with the Watergate break-in. (These four defendants were convicted in January 1975, though Mardian’s conviction was later reversed.)
2012: Online publisher and conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart died in Los Angeles at age 43.
2015: Tens of thousands marched through Moscow in honor of slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who had been shot to death on Feb. 27.
2020: State officials said New York City had its first confirmed case of the coronavirus, a woman in her late 30s who had contracted the virus while traveling in Iran. Health officials in Washington state, announcing what was believed at the time to be the second U.S. death from the coronavirus, said the virus may have been circulating for weeks undetected in the Seattle area.
Singer Mike d’abo of Manfred Mann is 80. Singer Roger Daltrey of The Who is 80. Actor Dirk Benedict is 79. Actordirector Ron Howard is 70. Actor Catherine Bach (“The Dukes of Hazzard”) is 69. Actor Tim Daly is 68. Singer-musician Jon Carroll (Starland Vocal Band) is 67. Bassist Bill Leen of Gin Blossoms is 62. Actor Bryan Batt (“Mad Men”) is 61. is 59. Actor John David Cullum (“Glory”) is 58. Actor George Eads (“CSI”) is 57. Actor Javier Bardem is 55. Actor Jack Davenport (“Pirates of the Caribbean”) is 51. Guitarist Ryan Peake of Nickelback is 51. Actor Mark-paul Gosselaar is 50. Actor Jensen Ackles is 46. TV host Donovan Patton (“Blue’s Clues”) is 46. Actor Lupita Nyong’o (“Black Panther”) is 41. Singer Kesha is 37. Singer Justin Bieber is 30.