DAVID MELENDY
The first issue of Time magazine was published on March
3, 1923. It was the first weekly news magazine in the United
States.
Yale alumni Henry Luce and Briton Hadden sought to
revolutionize news delivery by creating TIME, a news
publication that offered concise and informative articles.
On March 2, 1966, in Dearborn, Michigan, the Ford Motor
Company celebrated the production of its 1 millionth
Mustang, a white convertible.
The sporty, affordable vehicle was officially launched two
years earlier, on April 17, 1964, at the World’s Fair in
Flushing Meadows, New York.
That same day, the new car debuted in Ford showrooms
across America; almost immediately, buyers snapped up
nearly 22,000 of them. More than 400,000 Mustangs were
sold within that first year, exceeding sales expectations.
The movie King Kong premiered in the Radio City Music Hall and
RKO Roxy in New York City on March 2, 1933. U. S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt declared the four-day nationwide bank
holiday three days after the film’s premiere in New York City.
The film was a box-office success and during the opening
weekend earned an estimated $90,000.
Theatrical advertisement from 1933.
Pioneer 10, the world’s first outer-planetary probe, was launched
from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to Jupiter, the solar
system’s largest planet.
In December 1973, after successfully negotiating the asteroid belt
and a distance of 620 million miles, Pioneer 10 reached Jupiter
and sent back to Earth the first close-up images of the spectacular
gas giant.
In June 1983, the NASA spacecraft left the solar system and the
next day radioed back the first scientific data on interstellar space.
NASA officially ended the Pioneer 10 project on March 31, 1997,
with the spacecraft having traveled a distance of some six billion
miles.
On March 2, 1807, the U.S. Congress passes an act to “prohibit
the importation of slaves into any port or place within the
jurisdiction of the United States…from any foreign kingdom,
place, or country.” It would go into effect at the start of the
following year.
