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2A Daily News – Saturday, March 1, 2014 By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, March 1, the 60th day of 2014. There are 305 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On March 1, 1954, four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the spectators' gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wound- ing five members of Congress.The United States detonated a dry-fuel hydrogen bomb, codenamed Cas- tle Bravo, at Bikini Atoll in the Mar- shall Islands; the explosive yield of 15 megatons, much greater than expected, dropped radioactive fall- out on occupied islands hundreds of miles away. On this date: In 1790, President George Washington signed a measure authorizing the first U.S. Census. In 1864, Rebecca Lee Crum- pler became the first black woman to receive an American medical degree, from the New England Female Medical College in Boston. In 1867, Nebraska became the 37th state. In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed an act creating Yel- lowstone National Park. In 1919, a group of Korean nationalists declared their coun- try's independence from Japanese colonial rule. 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 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps. In 1964, Paradise Airlines Flight 901A, a Lockheed L-049 Constellation, crashed near Lake Tahoe Airport in California. In 1974, seven people, includ- ing former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, former Attorney Gen- eral John Mitchell and former assistant Attorney General Robert Mardian, were indicted on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice in connection with the Watergate break-in. Today's Birthdays: Singer Harry Belafonte is 87. Actor Robert Conrad is 79. Former Sen. John Breaux, D-La., is 70. Rock singer Roger Daltrey is 70. Actor Alan Thicke is 67. Actor-director Ron Howard is 60. Actor Tim Daly is 58. Actor Bryan Batt (TV: ''Mad Men''; Film: ''12 Years a Slave'') is 51. Actor Javier Bardem (HAH'- vee-ayr bahr-DEHM') is 45. Rock musician Ryan Peake (Nickel- back) is 41. Actor Mark-Paul Gos- selaar is 40. Actress Lupita Nyong'o (Film: ''12 Years a Slave'') is 21. Pop singer Justin Bieber is 20. Thought for Today: ''Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seri- ously, it'll all work out in the end.'' — David Niven, British actor (born this date in 1910, died 1983). Today in History