March 4


March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap
years). There are 302 days remaining.

Events

   * 303 or 304 - Martyrdom of saint Adrian of Nicomedia
   * 1152 - Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
   * 1461 - King Henry VI of England is deposed.
   * 1665 - Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
   * 1681 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for
     the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
   * 1789 - In New York City, the first United States Congress meets and
     declares the new Constitution of the United States is in effect.
   * 1791 - Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state.
   * 1793 - George Washington is inaugurated for a second term as the 1st
     President of the United States.
   * 1797 - John Adams is inaugurated as the 2nd President of the United
     States.
   * 1801 - Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated as the 3rd President of the
     United States.
   * 1805 - Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated for a second term as President
     of the United States.
   * 1809 - James Madison is inaugurated as the 4th President of the United
     States.
   * 1813 - James Madison is inaugurated for a second term as President of
     the United States.
   * 1817 - James Monroe is inaugurated as the 5th President of the United
     States.
   * 1825 - John Quincy Adams is inaugurated as the 6th President of the
     United States.
   * 1829 - Andrew Jackson is inaugurated as the 7th President of the United
     States.
   * 1833 - Andrew Jackson is inaugurated for a second term as President of
     the United States.
   * 1837 - Martin Van Buren is inaugurated as the 8th President of the
     United States.
   * 1837 - Chicago, Illinois is granted a city charter by Illinois.
   * 1841 - William Henry Harrison is inaugurated as the 9th President of
     the United States.
   * 1845 - James Knox Polk is inaugurated as the 11th President of the
     United States.
   * 1849 - David Rice Atchison is believed by some to have been President
     of the United States for one day.
   * 1853 - Franklin Pierce is inaugurated as the 14th President of the
     United States.
   * 1857 - James Buchanan is inaugurated as the 15th President of the
     United States.
   * 1861 - Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th President of the
     United States.
   * 1861 - The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate
     States of America.
   * 1865 - Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated for a second term as President of
     the United States.
   * 1869 - Ulysses S. Grant is inaugurated as the 18th President of the
     United States.
   * 1873 - Ulysses S. Grant is inaugurated for a second term as President
     of the United States.
   * 1877 - Emile Berliner invents the microphone.
   * 1877 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake debuts
   * 1881 - James A. Garfield is inaugurated as the 20th President of the
     United States.
   * 1881 - A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story, begins.
   * 1885 - Grover Cleveland is inaugurated as the 22nd President of the
     United States.
   * 1889 - Benjamin Harrison is inaugurated as the 23rd President of the
     United States.
   * 1893 - Grover Cleveland (same as above) is inaugurated as the 24th
     President of the United States.
   * 1897 - William McKinley is inaugurated as the 25th President of the
     United States.
   * 1901 - William McKinley is inaugurated for a second term as President
     of the United States.
   * 1902 - In Chicago, Illinois, the American Automobile Association is
     established.
   * 1904 - Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat toward
     Manchuria followed by 100,000 Japanese troops.
   * 1905 - Theodore Roosevelt is re-inaugurated as the 26th President of
     the United States.

   * 1909 - William Howard Taft is inaugurated as the 27th President of the
     United States.
   * 1913 - Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th President of the
     United States.
   * 1913 - The United States Department of Commerce and United States
     Department of Labor are established by splitting the duties of the
     10-year-old Dept. of Commerce and Labor.
   * 1917 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman member of
     the United States House of Representatives.
   * 1921 - Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th President of the
     United States.
   * 1925 - Calvin Coolidge is re-inaugurated as the 30th President of the
     United States, the first inauguration broadcasted on radio.
   * 1929 - Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st President of the
     United States.
   * 1933 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd President
     of the United States. In reference to the Great Depression, Roosevelt
     gives his "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself" inauguration
     speech.
   * 1933 - Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, first
     female member of the United States Cabinet
   * 1944 - In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the leader of 1930s
     crime syndicate Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing Prison.
   * 1954 - Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston announces the first
     successful kidney transplant.
   * 1963 - In Paris six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to
     assassinate President Charles de Gaulle.
   * 1966 - John Lennon says, "We (The Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
     which later sparked controversy in the United States.
   * 1975 - Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of England.
   * 1977 - An earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than
     1,500.
   * 1989 - Time, Inc. and Warner Communications announce plans for a merger
     forming Time-Warner.
   * 1993 - Authorities announce the capture of suspected World Trade Center
     bombing conspirator Mohammad Salameh.
   * 1994 - Four terrorists are convicted for their roles in the World Trade
     Center bombing which killed six and injured more than a thousand.
   * 1997 - United States President Bill Clinton bars federal funding for
     any research on human cloning.
   * 1998 - Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that
     federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both
     parties are the same sex.
   * 1999 - Monica Lewinsky's book detailing her affair with Bill Clinton
     goes on sale in the United States
   * 1999 - In a military court, Captain Richard Ashby of the United States
     Marines is acquitted of the charge of reckless flying which resulted in
     the deaths of 20 skiers in the Italian Alps when his low-flying jet hit
     a gondola cable.

Births

   * 1394 - Prince Henry the Navigator, explorer (+ 1460).
   * 1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (+ 1741).
   * 1768 - August Friedrich Wilhelm Holtzhausen, engineer (+ 1827).
   * 1793 - Karl Lachmann, philologist (+ 1851).
   * 1876 - LŽon-Paul Fargue, poet (+ 1947)
   * 1877 - Garrett Morgan, inventor (+ 1963)
   * 1888 - Knute Rockne, American football star, coach (+ 1931)
   * 1897 - Lefty O'Doul, baseball star, restauranteur (+ 1969)
   * 1901 - Charles Goren, bridge expert
   * 1909 - Harry Helmsley, real estate entrepreneur (+ 1997)
   * 1913 - John Garfield, actor (+ 1952)
   * 1916 - Hans Eysenck, psychologist (+ 1997).
   * 1925 - Paul Mauriat, musician
   * 1928 - Alan Sillitoe, writer
   * 1932 - Miriam Makeba, singer
   * 1934 - Janez Strnad, Slovene physicist.
   * 1936 - Jim Clark, racing driver (+ 1968)
   * 1941 - Adrian Lyne, director
   * 1951 - Kenny Dalglish footballer and football manager
   * 1951 - Chris Rea, British singer and musician
   * 1960 - Mykelti Williamson, actor
   * 1961 - Ray Mancini, boxer
   * 1967 - Evan Dando, musician
   * 1968 - Patsy Kensit, actress
   * 1982 - Matthias Dix, German story writer.

Deaths

   * 1619 - Anne of Denmark, consort of James I of England
   * 1852 - Nikolai Gogol, writer
   * 1868 - Jesse Chisholm, Old West pioneer
   * 1963 - William Carlos Williams, writer
   * 1994 - John Candy, comedian and actor
   * 1996 - Minnie Pearl, country music performer
   * 1999 - Harry Blackmun, associate justice of the United States Supreme
     Court
   * 1999 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer, aged 77
   * 2001 - Glenn Hughes -- leather dude Popular Music group The Village
     People
   * 2001 - Harold Stassen, politician

Holidays and observances

   * Catholicism - Feast day of St Casimir.