03-01-2008, 03:15 PM
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Location: Maryland
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March 1st
1810 ~ Birthday of Frédéric Chopin, Composer & Pianist.
1872 ~ U.S. Congress authorized creation of Yellowstone National Park.
1896 ~ Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity.
1904 ~ Birthday of Glenn Miller, Bandleader.
1912 ~ Georg Ritter von Trapp, head of the singing family memorialized in the musical "The Sound of Music", married Agathe.
1927 ~ Birthday of Harry Belafonte, Musician & Actor.
1932 ~ The infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped.
1950 ~ Klaus Fuchs was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
1954 ~ The Castle Bravo 15-megaton hydrogen bomb was detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. It produced the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the U.S.
1992 ~ Sen. Brock Adams, D-Wash., abandoned his re-election campaign after eight women accused him in a Seattle Times report of sexual abuse and harassment.
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