Historical Events on March 4 (original) (raw)
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- 306 Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia
- 852 Croatian Duke Trpimir I issued a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources
- 938 Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, the patron saint of the Czech state
King John's Oath
1215 King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III
- 1238 Battle of the Sit River: Mongol forces of Batu Khan overcome Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal near Yaroslavl in Russia, ending Russian resistance
- 1351 Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam
- 1386 Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) crowned King of Poland
Edward IV
1461 Edward Plantagenet lays claim to the throne of England as Edward IV in London
Scottish French Alliance
1492 King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England
Anne Boleyn's Court Debut
1522 Anne Boleyn makes her debut at the English court at the Green Castle pageant
- 1570 King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students as part of his attempted suppression of Protestantism
- 1580 Three Jesuit missionaries arrive at Mughal royal court of Fatehpur Sikri, at request of Emperor Akbar to take part in theologian discussions at the Ibadat Khana (House of Worship)
- 1590 Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda
- 1611 George Abbot appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1621 Jacarta, Java, renamed Batavia
Massachusetts Bay Colony Charter
1628 England's King Charles I grants a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony
- 1653 Dutch commodore Johan van Galen leads a Dutch fleet to victory against an English naval force at the Battle of Leghorn (Livorno) during the Anglo Dutch wars, later dies from his wounds on March 23
English Declare War
1665 English King Charles II declares war on Netherlands
Flamsteed 1st Astronomer Royal
1675 John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England
Penn Receives Royal Charter
1681 English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania
1699 Jews are expelled from residing in Lübeck, Germany
1741 British fleet under Rear Admiral of the Blue Sir Chaloner Ogle reaches Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)
1776 American War of Independence: The Americans capture Dorchester Heights dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts
1789 US House of Representatives 1st full meeting, NYC, Fx. Muhlenberg 1st speaker
1790 France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land
1791 First Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office
1791 President Washington calls the US Senate into its first special session
1791 Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii
1793 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands
1793 Washington's 2nd inauguration as US President, shortest speech (133 words)
1804 The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland's Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony's only significant convict uprising.
James Madison
1809 James Madison becomes 1st US President inaugurated in American-made clothes
James Monroe
1817 James Monroe is inaugurated as the 5th President of the United States
1824 The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" founded in the United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858.
1826 1st US railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachusetts
1829 Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Andrew Jackson's inaugural ball
1830 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" premieres at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy
1835 HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion (Chile)
1837 Chicago becomes incorporated as a city
1837 Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
London Assurance
1841 Dion Boucicault's stage comedy "London Assurance" opens at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London
- 1848 Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
- 1848 Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution
Zachary Taylor
1849 US President Zachary Taylor delays his swearing-in and inauguration ceremony for one day due to religious reasons, rising to the false belief by some that Senator David Atchison (President pro tempore) technically assumed the office of President for one day
1853 Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands
1853 William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US vice-president
1861 Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag (US Civil War)
1861 US President Abraham Lincoln opens Government Printing Office
1863 Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee
1863 Territory of Idaho established
1865 US Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag"
Thomas Scott
1870 On command of Louis Riel, Thomas Scott is executed by a firing squad. Riel rejects all appeals and requests to intervene in an attempt to demonstrate to the Canadian government that the Métis must be taken seriously
1876 US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap
1877 Tchaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer" premieres in Moscow
1880 NY Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S. H. Horgan
1881 California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
James A. Garfield
1881 James A. Garfield inaugurated as the 20th President of the United States of America
- 1881 Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson begin their 1st case together in "A Study in Scarlet"
Boer War Ceasefire
1881 South African politician Paul Kruger accepts ceasefire during First Boer War
- 1882 Britain's first electric trams run in East London
Forth Bridge
1890 Longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge (railway) at 1,710 ft in length is opened in Scotland by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII
- 1893 Francis Dhanis' Belgian Congo Free State army attacks the Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe
- 1893 Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th US President (2nd term)
- 1894 Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
Resurrection
1895 Gustav Mahler conducts the premiere of his incomplete 2nd Symphony ("Resurrection") in Berlin, Germany, with the Berlin Philharmonic; complete version debuts in December
1899 Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.
1901 Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction US congressmen, ends
1901 William McKinley inaugurated for his 2nd term as US president; Theodore Roosevelt serves as Vice President; his inaugural address is the first to be published in advance
1902 American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
1903 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal HC beats Winnipeg Victorias, 4-1 for a 2-1 challenge series victory
1908 Fire at Lakeview Elementary School in Collinwood, Ohio kills 172 students and 2 teachers: boiler room blaze trapped many victims in the building, prompting changes in school design and procedures nationwide [1]
Elihu Root Senator
1909 Elihu Root begins his tenure after being elected United States Senator for New York
1909 US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
1910 Avalanche at Bear Creek in Rogers Pass, British Columbia, kills 58 railway line workers - Canada's worst avalanche disaster [1]
1911 Victor Berger (Wisc) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US
1913 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed
1913 Gabriel Faure's opera "Pénélope", based on Homer's "The Odyssey", premieres at the Salle Garnie, in Monte Carlo, Monaco
1913 NY Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda)
1913 US Department of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments
1918 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)
The 1918 Flu Pandemic
1918 US Army mess cook Private Albert Gitchell of Fort Riley, Kansas becomes the first documented military case of Spanish flu; start of worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million [some sources cite date as March 11]
Nosferatu
1922 1st vampire film "Nosferatu", an un-authorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, premieres at the Berlin Zoological Garden, Germany
Lenin on Bureaucracy
1923 Vladimir Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Soviet bureaucracy)
- 1924 The song "Happy Birthday To You" is published by Claydon Sunny
- 1925 Swain's Island, a remote coral atoll, is annexed by the United States and incorporated into American Samoa
- 1925 US President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
- 1926 De Geer government in Netherlands takes office
Ruth Highest-Paid
1927 Babe Ruth becomes the highest-paid player in MLB history when he signs 3-year, $70,000 per season contract with the New York Yankees
1928 "Bunion Run" race from LA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne
1929 National Revolutionary Party founded in Mexico by Plutarco Elías Calles (will go on to hold power until 2000)
Curtis 1st Native American VP
1929 Republican Charles Curtis becomes the 1st Native American to be Vice President of the United States
- 1930 Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
- 1930 Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
- 1930 Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.
Bradman's Duck
1931 Don Bradman is bowled for a rare first ball duck by Herman Griffith (4-50) on the last day of 5th cricket Test vs West Indies in Sydney; Windies win by 31 runs but lose series to Australia, 4-1
- 1931 West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG
- 1933 Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss dissolves Austrian parliament
- 1933 Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, 1st female member of the US Cabinet
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd US President, pledges to pull the US out of the Depression, stating in his inaugural address "that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself".
1933 Henderson, DeSylva & Brown's "Strike Me Pink" premieres in NYC
1933 Noordwijk soccer team forms
1934 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson (San Francisco) dedicated
1941 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague
1941 Chicago Black Hawks goaltender Sam LoPresti faces NHL record 83 shots in a 3-2 loss to the Bruins in Boston
Prince Paul Rejects Hitler Deal
1941 Prince Paul, prince regent of Yugoslavia meets with Adolf Hitler at the Berghof, Bavaria, where he rejects deal to allow Nazi's access to Greece
1941 The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II.
1943 Transport #50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor
1944 1st US bombing of Berlin
1944 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
1945 Finland declares war on Nazi Germany
1947 WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
Vishinsky Foreign Minister
1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister
1949 Piet Van de Pol of the Netherlands crowned world champion in billiards
1949 Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel
1954 James E. Wilkins appointed 1st black US sub-cabinet member
1954 Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant
1955 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
1957 Gold Coast officially changes its name to Ghana ahead of its independence
1957 The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1959 NASA's scientific spacecraft Pioneer 4 misses moon, enters heliocentric orbit, and becomes 2nd (US 1st) earth-launched 'artificial planet' [1]
1960 French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100
1961 Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary-General of NATO
1962 AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
1964 Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
1966 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die
More Popular Than Jesus
1966 John Lennon says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
- 1966 North Sea Gas 1st pumped ashore by BP
- 1967 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler & Ford (GRB)
- 1967 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova & Protopopov (USSR)
Peggy Fleming World Champion
1967 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (US)
Sports History
1968 Italian boxer Nino Benvenuti regains world middleweight title with a 15-round points decision over American champion Emile Griffith at Madison Square Garden, NY; last of famous trilogy of fights
Boxing Title Fight
1968 Joe Frazier takes his record to 20-0 and captures vacant world heavyweight boxing title; stops Buster Mathis in 11th round TKO at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
1969 London East End gang bosses twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are found guilty of murder. Both will die in captivity.
1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes off Cape Camarat in the Mediterranean, all 57 crew lost
1970 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
1970 NY Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
1971 "City Command" kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey
1972 Abercorn Restaurant bombing: a bomb explodes in a crowded restaurant in Belfast, killing two civilians and wounding 130
1972 Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5)
1972 Last train run between Penrith to Keswick, UK
1972 Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty
1973 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
1974 David Hares' "Knuckle" premieres in London
1974 Educational series "The Letter People" debuts on KETC-TV (PBS) in St. Louis, Missouri
1976 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
1976 MLB's San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth
1977 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico
1977 Earthquake in Romania kills 1,541
Music Premiere
1977 Roger Sessions' 6th Symphony premieres (in fully completed form) in New York City with José Serebrier conducting the Juilliard Orchestra
- 1977 West Indian cricket fast bowler Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan in 2nd Test win at Port-of-Spain; best Test figures by a pace bowler from the West Indies
- 1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
1979 "The Ordeal of Patty Hearst", television movie directed by Paul Wendkos, premieres on CBS
- 1979 200th episode of "All in the Family"
Catholic Encyclical
1979 Pope John Paul II publishes his first encyclical "Redemptor Hominis"
- 1979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
Sports History
1980 40th hat trick in NHL New York Islander franchise history, scored by Mike Bossy
Election of Interest
1980 Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) comes to power, winning the parliamentary election in Zimbabwe, making Mugabe Zimbabwe's first black prime minister
- 1982 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy & D Potvin
- 1982 Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada
- 1982 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 504
- 1983 U.S. Public Health Service's publishes its guidelines for blood donors and AIDS
Baseball Hall of Fame
1984 Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame