March 1, 1805 — Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.
Samuel Chase, a brash, outspoken, uber-Federalist, was nominated by George Washington in 1796 in what was possibly the first head-shaking judicial nomination. As a state judge in Maryland, he had weathered two attempts to remove him from [...]
Archive for March 1st, 2008
Don’t Judge Me
Posted in Constitutional period (1789-1809), tagged Burr, Supreme Court on March 1 | 3 Comments »
Saved by the Ball…
Posted in Europe, World War II (1939-1945), tagged 1941, Tripartite Pact, Tsar Boris III on March 1 | 2 Comments »
The ball-point pen, that is.
On March 1, 1941, Bulgaria’s Tsar Boris III lifted his and threw his lot in with the Axis Powers (Germany, Japan, Italy, Hungary, Romania, and later Yugoslavia) by signing the Tripartite Pact in order to stave off an impending German invasion. The Pact, penned and initially signed by the three major participants in 1940, did [...]
