Notable Historical Events on March 4th
March 4th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
51 |
Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth). |
303 |
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. |
932 |
Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs. |
1152 |
Frederick I Barbarossa elected Holy Roman Emperor |
1215 |
King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III. |
1238 |
The Battle of the Sit River was fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia. |
1351 |
Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam. |
1386 |
Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) was crowned King of Poland. |
1461 |
Battle of Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha, Edward IV recognised as king of England in place of Henry IV |
1492 |
King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England. |
1570 |
King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students |
1590 |
Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda |
1611 |
George Abbot appointed Archbishop of Canterbury |
1621 |
Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia |
1628 |
England's King Charles I grants a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony |
1665 |
English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands |
1675 |
John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England |
1681 |
English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania |
1699 |
Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany |
1741 |
British fleet under Rear Admiral of the Blue Sir Chaloner Ogle reaches Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) |
1774 |
First sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel) |
1776 |
The American War of Independence: The Americans capture Dorchester Heights dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts. |
1789 |
1st US Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps) |
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 |
1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office |
1791 |
Pres Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session |
1791 |
Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies) |
1792 |
Oranges introduced to Hawaii |
1793 |
French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Neth |
1793 |
Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words) |
1797 |
John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of US |
1798 |
Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews |
1801 |
1st US President inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson) |
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. |
1809 |
Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes |
1824 |
The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" was founded in the United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858. |
1825 |
John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president |
1826 |
1st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass |
1829 |
Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th US President |
1829 |
Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball |
1830 |
V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," premieres in Venice |
1835 |
HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion |
1837 |
Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president |
1837 |
Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American |
1837 |
Chicago becomes incorporated as a city. |
1841 |
Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance," premieres in London |
1841 |
Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison |
1845 |
James K. Polk inaugurated as 11th US President |
1848 |
Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution |
1848 |
Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia |
1849 |
US had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Sen David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd |
1853 |
Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands |
1853 |
William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US VP |
1861 |
Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag (US Civil War) |
1861 |
Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as 16th US President |
1861 |
US President Lincoln opens government Printing Office |
1863 |
Battle of Thompson's Station, TN |
1863 |
Territory of Idaho established |
1865 |
Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag" |
1865 |
President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as US president |
1869 |
Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th US President |
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 Metis 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 |
1881 |
Holmes & Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet", 1st case together |
1881 |
James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th president |
1881 |
South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire |
1882 |
Britain's first electric trams run in East London. |
1883 |
John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi |
1885 |
Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premieres in London |
1885 |
Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st US Democratic President since Civil War |
1889 |
Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president |
1890 |
The longest bridge in the Great Britain, the Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in Scotland is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII. |
1893 |
Francis Dhanis' 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 |
1895 |
Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony premieres in Berlin |
1897 |
William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US |
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 |
1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer) |
1901 |
President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president; Theodore |Roosevelt serves as Vice President |
1901 |
Term of George H White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends |
1902 |
American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago |
1905 |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Elga" premieres in Berlin |
1908 |
Collingwood Ohio, US primary school catches fire (180 killed) |
1909 |
President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm |
1909 |
US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds |
1911 |
Victor Berger (Wisc) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US |
1913 |
1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed |
1913 |
Dept of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments |
1913 |
Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope" premieres in Monte Carlo |
1913 |
NY Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda) |
1913 |
Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th US President |
1918 |
Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921) |
1920 |
Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece |
1921 |
Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas |
1921 |
Warren G. Haring is inaugurated as the 29th President of the United States |
1923 |
Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy) |
1924 |
"Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny |
1925 |
Pres Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations |
1925 |
Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US |
1926 |
De Geer government in Netherlands takes office |
1928 |
"Bunion Run" race from LA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne |
1929 |
Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP |
1929 |
Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st US President |
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. |
1931 |
Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as W I win the Test |
1931 |
West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG |
1933 |
Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves Austrian parliament |
1933 |
Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st US woman cabinet member |
1933 |
Henderson, DeSylva & Brown's "Strike Me Pink" premieres in NYC |
1933 |
Noordwijk soccer team forms |
1933 |
FDR inaugrated as 32nd pres, pledges to pull US out of Depression & says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" |
1933 |
Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada. |
1934 |
Easter Cross on Mt Davidson (SF) dedicated |
1936 |
1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany |
1937 |
9th Academy Awards - "The Great Ziegfeld", Paul Muni & Luise Rainer wins |
1941 |
18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague |
1941 |
NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots |
1941 |
Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler |
1941 |
The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II. |
1943 |
Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor |
1943 |
15th Academy Awards - "Mrs. Miniver", James Cagney & Greer Garson win |
1944 |
1st US bombing of Berlin |
1944 |
Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy |
1945 |
Finland declares war on nazi-Germany |
1945 |
In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Auxiliary Transport Service as a driver. |
1947 |
WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister |
1949 |
Piet Van de Pol (Neth) becomes world champion billiard player |
1949 |
Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel |
1954 |
JE 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 |
The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90. |
1959 |
US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet |
1960 |
French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 |
1961 |
Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as sec-gen of NATO |
1962 |
AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation |
1964 |
Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering |
1965 |
David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2 |
1966 |
Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die |
1966 |
John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus" |
1966 |
North Sea Gas was 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) |
1967 |
Men's Fig Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT) |
1967 |
Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (US) |
1968 |
Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
1968 |
Martin Luther King Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign |
1968 |
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched |
1969 |
The Kray brothers, Ronald and Reginald, London East End gang bosses, are found guilty of murder. Both will die in captivity. |
1970 |
French submarine "Eurydice" explodes |
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 |
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 |
1972 |
Abercorn Restaurant bombing: a bomb explodes in a crowded restaurant in Belfast, killing two civilians and wounding 130 |
1973 |
15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America |
1974 |
David Hares' "Knuckle" premieres in London |
1974 |
Harold Wilson replaces resigning Edward Heath as British premier |
1976 |
John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio |
1976 |
SF Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie & Bud Herseth |
1976 |
2nd People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Katharine Hepburn win (Motion Picture) and Telly Savalas & Carol Burnett win (TV) |
1977 |
1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, NM |
1977 |
Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain |
1977 |
Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541 |
1978 |
Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue |
1979 |
"Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 61 performances |
1979 |
200th episode of "All in the Family" |
1979 |
Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
1979 |
US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings |
1980 |
40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy |
1980 |
Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe |
1982 |
2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy & D Potvin |
1982 |
NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 504 |
1984 |
Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational |
1984 |
Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
1985 |
STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled |
1985 |
Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA |
1985 |
War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai" |
1986 |
Border completes twin Test tons (140 & 114*) v NZ |
1989 |
Eastern Airlines machinists strike |
1989 |
Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m) |
1990 |
20th Easter Seal Telethon |
1990 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
1990 |
US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space |
1991 |
Bank of Credit & Commerce Intl divests itself of 1st American Bank |
1991 |
Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW |
1993 |
"Goodbye Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 188 performances |
1993 |
Katharine Hepburn admitted to hospital suffering from exhaustion |
1993 |
1st ESPY Awards: Michael Jordan, Monica Seles win |
1994 |
4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center |
1994 |
Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit |
1995 |
1st NYC Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years |
1995 |
Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital |
1995 |
George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker |
1995 |
Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec) |
1995 |
Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1 |
1997 |
Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks |
1997 |
Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU) |
1997 |
President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research |
1997 |
Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia) |
1998 |
Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: 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. |
2000 |
14th Soul Train Music Awards: Prince, Whitney Houston, DMX & Mary J. Blige win |
2001 |
A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA. |
2001 |
Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people. |
2001 |
Tests in recent days confirm the world's largest oil find in three decades in the Kashagan field in the Caspian Sea |
2002 |
Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions. |
2002 |
Multinational Force in Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission. |
2005 |
The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers. |
2005 |
United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by HIV in the future without further action against the spread of the disease. |
2006 |
Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response was received. |
2006 |
26th Golden Raspberry Awards: Dirty Love wins |
2006 |
20th Soul Train Music Awards: Jamie Foxx, Destiny's Child & John Legend win |
2007 |
Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet. |
2009 |
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002. |
2009 |
U.S. Steel announce the closure of the Stelco Lake Erie Works in Nanticoke, Ontario due to the increasingly worsening effects of the global economic slowdown |
2009 |
Malaysia has a 50% chance of slipping into the recession as growth is expected to reach just 0.5% for the year, announces the executive director Datuk Mohamed Ariff Abdul Kareem of the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research |
2012 |
Munitions dump explosions kill at least 250 people in the Republic of Congo |
2012 |
Vladimir Putin wins Russian presidential election amid allegations of voter fraud |
2012 |
Over 10,000 illegal Peruvian gold miners clash with police to gain control of Puerto Maldonado |
2013 |
40 Syrian soldiers are killed in an ambush in Western Iraq |
2013 |
11 children are killed after a bus collides a truck in the Jalandhar district, India |
2013 |
The Papal Conclave begins to select the successor of Pope Benedict XVI |
2016 |
North Korea leader orders military to be ready to use nuclear weapons at any time |
2016 |
AT&T supports Apple in US iPhone encryption dispute |
2017 |
United States Ramps Up Airstrikes Against Al Qaeda in Yemen |
2017 |
China to increase military spending by 7% in 2017 |
2018 |
China says its increasingly powerful military is no threat |
2018 |
South Korea to send high-level officials to North for talks |
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