Today in History Today is Monday, March 1, the 60th day of 2021. There are 305 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 1, 1954, four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the spectators’ gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five members of Congress. On this date: In 1781, the Continental Congress declared the Articles of Confederation to be in force, following ratification by Maryland. In 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. In 1954, the United States detonated a dry-fuel hydrogen bomb, codenamed Castle Bravo, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. In 1957, “The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss was released to bookstores by Random House. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps. In 1966, the Soviet space probe Venera 3...
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