ThisDayThatYear.com - Events from History on March 04

Events from History on March 04

1152 : Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king
1461 : Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha
1461 : Edward IV recognized as king of England
1540 : Protestant count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife
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
1665 : English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands
1675 : John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England
1681 : King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn
1699 : Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany
1741 : English fleet under admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena
1774 : 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)
1789 : 1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps)
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 president inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson)
1809 : Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes
1825 : John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president
1826 : 1st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
1829 : Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president
1829 : Unruly crowd mobs White House during Pres Jackson inaugural ball
1830 : V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," premieres in Venice
1835 : HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepci¢n
1837 : City of Chicago incorporates
1837 : Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president
1837 : Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
1841 : Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance," premieres in London
1841 : Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison
1845 : James K Polk inaugrated at 11th president
1848 : Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution
1849 : US had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't
1849 : 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
1861 : Lincoln's inaugurated as 16th pres; 1st time US has 5 former pres
1861 : Pres Lincoln opens Govt 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 president
1869 : Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th president
1876 : US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap
1877 : Tsjaikovski'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
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 Democratic pres since Civil War
1889 : Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president
1893 : Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe 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
1901 : 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer)
1901 : President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as 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 primary school catches fire; 180 die
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 Faur‚'s opera "P‚n‚lope," premieres in Monte Carlo
1913 : NY Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda)
1913 : Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president
1917 : Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) becomes 1st female member of Congress
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
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 govt 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 president
1930 : Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
1930 : Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
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 : & says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
1933 : Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament
1933 : FDR inaugrated as 32nd pres, pledges to pull US out of Depression
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
1934 : Easter Cross on Mt Davidson (SF) dedicated
1936 : 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
1941 : 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague
1941 : Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler
1943 : Transport nr 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
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
1955 : 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
1959 : US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet
1960 : French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100
1960 : Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz
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 Fig Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (US)
1968 : Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign
1968 : Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
1970 : French submarine "Eurydice" explodes
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
1973 : 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
1974 : David Hares' "Knuckle," premieres in London
1974 : Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed 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
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 : 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
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 : Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
1989 : Eastern Airlines machinists strike
1989 : Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)
1990 : 20th Easter Seal Telethon
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 enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion
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 : 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)

Birthdays

Death Days

Events