On this day, March 1st:

• 1445 - Alessandro Botticelli is born.
• 1692 - the Salem Witch Hunt begins.
• 1780 - Pennsylvania becomes the first American state to abolish slavery.
• 1904 - Glenn Miller is born.
• 1927 - Harry Belafonte is born.
• 1932 - infant son of Charles Lindbergh kidnapped.
• 1944 - Roger Daltrey is born
• 1954 - US tests hydrogen bomb in the Pacific archipelago of Bikini.
• 1954 - Ron Howard is born.
• 1961 - President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
• 1966 - Venera 3, a Soviet probe, collides with Venus. It is the first unmanned spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
• 1978 - The coffin of film star Charlie Chaplin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery three months after his funeral. It is found several miles away on May 17.
• 1985 - Baby girl Grace Anna was born to Mark and Kerry. :)