On this day: March 1

POSTED: 12:32 PM PST Feb 27, 2013    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Feb 28, 2013 

Salem is gripped by witch hysteria, Yellowstone becomes the world's first national park, the Lindbergh baby is kidnapped, and the Watergate Seven are indicted, all on this day.

OTD March 1 - parachute
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Greater Saint Louis Air & Space Museum

1912: Capt. Albert Berry performs the first parachute jump from an airplane over Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis, Mo. Berry had previously parachuted many times from a balloon.

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