From Historynet: Today in History March 1

1642          York, Maine becomes the first incorporated American city.

1692          Sarah Good , 

Sarah Osborne  and Tituba  are arrested for the supposed practice of witchcraft in Salem, Mass.

1776          French minister Charles Gravier  advises his Spanish counterpart to support the American rebels against the English.

1780          Pennsylvania becomes the first U.S. state to abolish slavery.

1803          Ohio becomes the 17th state to join the Union.

1808          In France, Napoleon  creates an imperial nobility.

1815          Napoleon  lands at Cannes, France, returning from exile on Elba, with a force of 1,500 men and marches on Paris.

1871          German troops enter Paris, France, during the Franco-Prussian War.

1875          Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, which is invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1883.

1912          Albert Berry  completes the first in-flight parachute jump, from a Benoist plane over Kinlock Field in St. Louis, Missouri.

1915          The Allies announce their aim to cut off all German supplies and assure the safety of the neutrals.

1919          The Korean coalition proclaims their independence from Japan.

1921          The Allies reject a $7.5 billion reparations offer in London. German delegation decides to quit all talks.

1932          The Lindbergh baby  is kidnapped from the Lindbergh home near Princeton, New Jersey.

1935          Germany officially establishes the Luftwaffe.

1941          Bulgaria joins the Axis as the Nazis occupy Sofia.

1942          Japanese troops land on Java in the Pacific.

1943          The British RAF conducts strategic bombing raids on all European railway lines.

1960          1,000 Black students pray and sing the national anthem on the steps of the old Confederate Capitol in Montgomery, Ala.

1968          Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara  is replaced by Clark Clifford .

1969          Mickey Mantle  announces his retirement from baseball.

1974          A grand jury indicts seven of 

President Nixon's  aides for the conspiracy on Watergate.

1985          The Pentagon accepts the theory that an atomic war would block the sun, causing a "nuclear winter."

1992          Bosnian Serbs begin sniping in Sarajevo, after Croats and Muslims vote for Bosnian independence.