This day in history — March 1
Today’s highlight in history
On March 1, 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.
On this date
In 1790, President George Washington signed a measure authorizing the first United States Census.
In 1932, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, N.J. (Remains identified as those of the child were found the following May.)
In 1954, four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the spectators’ gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five members of Congress.
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps.
In 1968, Johnny Cash married June Carter at the First Methodist Church in Franklin, Ky.
In 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.
In 1981, Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands began a hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland; he died 65 days later.
Ten years ago: The USS New York, an amphibious assault ship built with scrap steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center, was christened at Avondale, La.
Five years ago: Actress Bonnie Franklin, who played divorced mom Ann Romano on the long-running sitcom “One Day at a Time,” died in Los Angeles at age 69.
One year ago: The president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, said the two accountants responsible for the best-picture flub at the Academy Awards (in which “La La Land” was initially named the winner instead of “Moonlight”) would never work the Oscars again.
“ … Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
From his novel "Native Son," published on this date in 1940