Posted: Mar 1, 2013 9:22 AM by AP Today is Friday, March 1, the
60th day of 2013. There are 305 days left in the year. Today's
Highlight in History: On March 1, 1790, President George
Washington signed a measure authorizing the first U.S. Census.
On this date: In 1565, the city of Rio de Janeiro was founded by
Portuguese knight Estacio de Sa. In 1867, Nebraska became the
37th state. In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed an act
creating Yellowstone National Park. In 1890, J.P. Lippincott
published the first U.S. edition of the Sherlock Holmes mystery
"A Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1913, American
author Ralph Ellison ("Invisible Man") was born in Oklahoma
City. (Some sources list 1914.) 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 1940, "Native Son" by Richard Wright was first published by
Harper & Brothers. In 1943, war