3/1: On This Day

I'll be posting recaps of the previous night if I can get it together to do so, but you'll get a round or two every week in this space, as well as star sightings, hype and other trivia-related news.

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1. On this day in 1961, President Kennedy signed what volunteer agency into existence?

2. Dirk Benedict turns 61 today. Aside from playing "Face" on the A Team, he might have been best known for playing Lieutenant Starbuck on what science fiction movie and TV series?

3. On March 1, 1983, the company that's now the world's largest maker of timepieces began operations. Name that company.

4. On this day in 1932, the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped and murdered, sparking one of the largest media circuses and show trials in American History. Which Agatha Christie novel (later to be made into a movie) was inspired by the Lindbergh baby kidnapping?

5. On March 1, 1565, the City of Rio de Janeiro was incorporated. Residents of Rio de Janeiro are known by what term, which is also the name of a popular dance step?

6. The producer, actor and Canadian dude Alan Thicke is 59 today. He was also a popular songwriter, who wrote the original Wheel of Fortune theme, as well as the theme songs to two of the most popular sitcoms of the 1980's. Name either of those sitcoms.
(Hint: Growing Pains is not one of them.)

7. On March 1, 1803, what Great Lakes state became the 17th State admitted to the union?

8. On March 1, 1994, in Munich, Nirvana played their final live show. What was the name of Nirvana's first studio album?

9. Glenn Miller would have been 102 years old today if he were still alive. But he's not. How did he probably die?

10. On this date in 1989, prohibition was finally lifted in this northern nation, and now, every March 1, they celebrate Beer Day. (I don't know what you'd do on "Beer Day," but there you go.) What northern country now celebrates "Beer Day" every March 1?