Today is Saturday, March 1, the 60th day of 2014. There are 305 days left in the year. Todays Highlights in History: March 1, 1954four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the spectators gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five members of Congress. The United States detonated a dry-fuel hydrogen bomb, codenamed Castle Bravo, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands; the explosive yield of 15 megatons, much greater than expected, dropped radioactive fallout on occupied islands hundreds of miles away. 1790President George Washington signed a measure authorizing the first U.S. Census. 1864Rebecca Lee Crumpler became the first black woman to receive an American medical degree, from the New England Female Medical College in Boston. 1867Nebraska became the 37th state. 1872President Ulysses S. Grant signed an act creating Yellowstone National Park.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 17:56:07 +0000
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