Today’s highlight
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
1781: The Continental Congress declared the Articles of Confederation to be in force, following ratification by Maryland.
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.
1954: The United States detonated a dry-fuel hydrogen bomb, codenamed Castle Bravo, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
1957: “The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss was released to bookstores by Random House.