Today in History - History - March 4th

1152Frederick I Barbarossa elected Holy Roman Emperor

1825John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president

1797John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of US

1984Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational

2013The Papal Conclave begins to select the successor of Pope Benedict XVI

1990Beth Daniel wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open

1923Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy)

1913Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th US President

1901President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president; Theodore |Roosevelt serves as Vice President

1929Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st US President

1926Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway

1678Antonio Vivaldi, Venice, Baroque violin virtuoso/composer (4 Seasons)

1971Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau (51) weds author/actress Margaret Joan Sinclair (23) at a private ceremony in North Vancouver, Canada

1989Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline

1923Actor Rudolph Valentino (24) divorces actress Jean Acker (26) only after 6 hours of getting married

1960Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz

1193Saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137)

1989Tiny Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (b. 1916)

1883Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President US Confederate States, dies at 71

1986Elizabeth Smart, Canadian author (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept), dies of a heart attack at 72

1994John Candy, actor (SCTV, Uncle Buck), dies from a heart attack at 43

1944Louis Buchalter, American mobster (Murder, Inc.), executed at 47