Today in History - History - March 1st

1945FDR announces success of Yalta Conference

1970Charles Manson's album "Lie" is released

1972Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points

1628Writs are issued in February by Charles I of England mandating that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.

1985Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center

1987Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open

1974George Harrison announces his concert tour of US in November

1954In spring training, baseballer Ted Williams breaks his collarbone

1932The 20 month old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh is kidnapped from their home in East Amwell, New Jersey in what became known as the "Lindbergh kidnapping"

1978Charlie Chaplin's coffin and remains are stolen from a Swiss cemetery

1978Jensen Ackles, American actor (Days of our Lives)

1910Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)

1926Pete Rozelle, [Alvin Rozelle] South Gate California, American NFL commissioner (1960-89)

1810Frederic Chopin, Zelazowa Wola, (baptismal records 22nd Feb) Polish/French pianist/composer (Concert in F Minor)

1968Singer-songwriter and actress June Carter (38) weds singer-songwriter Johnny Cash (36) at a church in Franklin, Kentucky

2003"The Silence of the Lambs" actor Anthony Hopkins (65) weds actress-producer Stella Arroyave (47) in Malibu, California

1947Rocket engineer Werner von Braun (34) weds Maria Luise von Quistorp in Landshut, Germany

1827Father of U.S. History George Bancroft (26) weds first wife Sarah Dwight

1950Actress Ingrid Bergman (34) divorces dentist Petter Aron Lindström after 12 years of marriage

1989"Baywatch" actor David Hasselhoff (37) divorces actress Catherine Hickland (33) after nearly 5 years of marriage

1792Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)

1984Jackie Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies at 69