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UPI Almanac for Sunday, March 1, 2015

Yellowstone established, the Lindbergh kidnapping, birth of the Peace Corps, capture of suspected 9/11 mastermind ... on this date in history.

By United Press International
The Old Faithful geyser is pictured during one of its regular eruptions at Yellowstone National Park, which was created by an act of Congress March 1, 1872. (This view of the geyser is on July 29, 2006.) File Photo by A.J. Sisco/UPI
1 of 10 | The Old Faithful geyser is pictured during one of its regular eruptions at Yellowstone National Park, which was created by an act of Congress March 1, 1872. (This view of the geyser is on July 29, 2006.) File Photo by A.J. Sisco/UPI | License Photo

Today is Sunday, March 1, the 60th day of 2015 with 305 to follow.

The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Mercury, Neptune and Saturn. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Uranus and Venus.

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Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. They include Polish composer Frederic Chopin in 1810; author William Dean Howells in 1837; big band leader Glenn Miller in 1904; actor David Niven in 1910; writer Ralph Ellison in 1914; St. Louis Cardinals/Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Caray in 1914; poet Robert Lowell in 1917; Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Yitzhak Rabin in 1922; Mad magazine publisher William Gaines in 1922; Donald "Deke" Slayton, one of the original Mercury astronauts, in 1924; NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle in 1926; singer Harry Belafonte in 1927 (age 88); jurist Robert Bork in 1927; actor Robert Conrad in 1935 (age 80); singer Roger Daltrey (The Who) in 1944 (age 71); singer Mike d'Abo of Manfred Mann in 1944 (age 71); actor Alan Thicke in 1947 (age 68); actor/director Ron Howard in 1954 (age 61); actor Catherine Bach in 1954 (age 61); actor Tim Daly in 1956 (age 59); singer Kesha in 1987 (age 28); singer Justin Bieber in 1994 (age 21).

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On this date in history:

In 1565, the city of Rio de Janeiro was established.

In 1692, the notorious witch hunt began in the Salem village of the Massachusetts Bay colony (eventually resulting in the executions of 19 men and women).

In 1780, Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish slavery.

In 1781, the American colonies adopted the Articles of Confederation, paving the way for a federal union.

In 1803, Ohio was admitted to the union as the 17th state.

In 1867, Nebraska was admitted to the union as the 37th state.

In 1872, Yellowstone National Park was established by an act of Congress. It was the first area in the world to be designated a national park.

In 1932, aviator Charles Lindbergh's son was kidnapped. (The boy's body was found May 12. Bruno Hauptmann was convicted of the kidnapping and murder and executed in 1936.)

In 1954, Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five members of Congress.

In 1961, an executive order from U.S. President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps.

In 1971, a bomb exploded in a restroom in the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol, causing $300,000 damage but no injuries. The Weather Underground, a leftist radical group that opposed the Vietnam War, claimed responsibility.

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In 1991, after 23 years of insurgency in Colombia, the Popular Liberation Army put down its arms in exchange for two seats in the National Assembly.

In 2003, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, was captured in Pakistan.

In 2004, an interim government took over in Haiti one day after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled into exile.following a monthlong insurrection

In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that execution of juvenile offenders is unconstitutional.

In 2007, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who served as an adviser in the Kennedy administration, died at age 89.

In 2011, the U.S. Interior Department approved the first deep-water drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico since a BP offshore explosion and massive oil spill in April 2010.

In 2013, U.S. authorities said smugglers were using air-powered cannons in Mexico to blast drugs over the border into the United States.

In 2014, black-clad, knife-wielding attackers, including two women, killed at least 30 people and wounded about 130 at a railway station in the southwest Chinese city of Kumning. Four of the assailants were killed by police and four others were arrested and charged with murder.

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A thought for the day: "Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week." -- William Dean Howells

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