March 1

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March 1 in history:

• 2005: In Roper v. Simmons, the U.S. Supreme Court barred capital punishment for defendants whose crimes were committed when they were younger than 18.

• 1974: A federal grand jury indicted seven men for conspiracy to obstruct justice during the Watergate scandal. At the same time, the House Judiciary Committee began investigating the Watergate affair and related matters.

• 1957: The Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) was first test-launched at Cape Canaveral.

• 1932: Twenty-month-old Charles Lindbergh, Jr., son of famed aviator Charles A. Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was abducted from his crib at home in Hopewell, N.J.

• 1896: The army of Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia defeated the Italians in the Battle of Adowa (Adwa), inflicting the first major defeat by Africans on a European colonial power.

• 1872: Yellowstone was established in eastern Idaho, southern Montana, and northwestern Wyoming as the first national park in the United States.

• 1845: The U.S. Congress passed a resolution annexing Texas.

• 1786: The Ohio Company of Associates was formed in Boston to settle lands along the Ohio River that had recently been ceded to the U.S. government.

• 1781: The Articles of Confederation, drafted by the Continental Congress in 1777, were ratified and became the first constitution of the United States.