Updated February 29, 2012, 1:28 pm
On March 1, 1932, the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J.
On March 1, 1922, Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister who worked for peace with Palestinian and Arab neighbors, was born. Following his death on Nov. 4, 1995, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
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1781 The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation. 1790 Congress authorized the first U.S. census. 1845 President John Tyler signed a congressional resolution to annex the Republic of Texas. 1867 Nebraska became the 37th state. 1872 Congress authorized creation of Yellowstone National Park. 1922 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem. 1940 The novel “Native Son” by Richard Wright was published. 1954 Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen. 1961 President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps. 1968 Country musicians Johnny Cash and June Carter were married. 1974 Former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman and former Attorney General John Mitchell were indicted on obstruction of justice charges related to the Watergate break-in. 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 Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant won federal permission to go on line after two decades of protests and legal struggles. 2003 Suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by CIA and Pakistani agents near Islamabad. 2005 BTK serial killer Dennis Rader was charged in Wichita, Kan., with 10 counts of first-degree murder. (He later pleaded guilty and received multiple life sentences.) 2005 A closely divided Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty for juvenile criminals. 2010 Jay Leno returned as host of NBC’s “The Tonight Show.” Current Birthdays
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Singer Harry Belafonte turns 85 years old today.
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Singer Justin Bieber turns 18 years old today.
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1926 Robert Clary, Actor (“Hogan’s Heroes”), turns 86 1927 Robert H. Bork, Former U.S. solicitor general, turns 85 1935 Robert Conrad, Actor, turns 77 1944 Roger Daltrey, Rock singer (The Who), turns 68 1945 Dirk Benedict, Actor, turns 67 1947 Alan Thicke, Actor (“Growing Pains”), turns 65 1954 Catherine Bach, Actress (“The Dukes of Hazzard”), turns 58 1954 Ron Howard, Actor, director, turns 58 1956 Tim Daly, Actor (“Wings”), turns 56 1963 Ron Francis, Hockey Hall of Famer, turns 49 1966 John David Cullum, Actor, turns 46 1967 George Eads, Actor (“CSI”), turns 45 1969 Javier Bardem, Actor (“No Country for Old Men”), turns 43 1973 Chris Webber, Basketball player, turns 39
Historic Birthdays
Yitzhak Rabin 3/1/1922 – 11/4/1995 Israeli Prime minister.Go to obituary »
70 Antoninus 3/1/1389 – 5/2/1459
Italian Archbishop of Florence52 Simon Foucher 3/1/1644 – 4/27/1696
French ecclesiastic philosopher78 William Maxwell Cushing 3/1/1732 – 9/13/1810
American jurist – first Supreme Court appointee39 Frederic Chopin 3/1/1810 – 10/17/1849
Polish/French composer and pianist59 Augustus Saint-Gaudens 3/1/1848 – 8/3/1907
American sculptor51 Lytton Strachey 3/1/1880 – 1/21/1932
English biographer and critic40 Glenn Miller 3/1/1904 – 12/16/1944
American composer and band leader73 David Niven 3/1/1910 – 7/29/1983
English stage and screen actor60 Robert Lowell 3/1/1917 – 9/12/1977
American poet70 William Maxwell Gaines 3/1/1922 – 6/3/1992
American publisher of Mad magazine69 Donald “Deke” Slayton 3/1/1924 – 6/13/1993
American astronaut70 Pete Rozelle 3/1/1926 – 12/6/1996
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