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March 4
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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.
*
852 - Croatian Duke
Trpimir I of Croatia Trpimir I issued a
statute, a document with the first known written mention of the
Croats name in Croatian sources.
*
1152 -
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa is elected
Germanic king King of the
Germany Germans.
*
1215 - King
John of England makes an
oath to the
Pope as a
The Crusades 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
George II of
Vladimir-Suzdal (also known as
Yuri II) during the
Mongol invasion of
Russia.
*
1275 -
China Chinese astronomers observe a
total eclipse of the
sun.
*
1351 -
Ramathibodi becomes King of
Siam.
*
1386 -
Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) was crowned
King of Poland.
*
1461 -
Wars of the Roses in
Kingdom of England England:
House of Lancaster Lancastrian British monarchy King Henry VI of England Henry VI is deposed by his
House of York Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King
Edward IV of England Edward IV.
*
1492 - King
James IV of
Scotland concludes an
alliance with
France against
England.
*
1493 - Explorer
Christopher Columbus arrives in
the USA America aboard his ship
Niña.
*
1570 - King
Philip II bans foreign
Netherlands Dutch students.
*
1611 -
George Abbot is appointed
Archbishop of Canterbury.
*
1621 -
Jakarta,
Java (island) Java is renamed
Batavia, Dutch East Indies Batavia.
*
1629 -
Massachusetts Bay Colony, which had the role of colonizing the Americas, is granted a
Royal charter.
*
1634 - Samuel Cole opens the first
tavern in
Boston,
Massachusetts.
*
1665 -
England English King
Charles II of England Charles II declares war on
The Netherlands which marked the start of the
Second Anglo-Dutch War.
*
1675 -
John Flamsteed appointed first
Astronomer Royal of
England.
*
1681 -
Charles II of England grants a land charter to
William Penn for the area that will later become
Pennsylvania.
*
1766 - The
British Parliament repealed the
Stamp Act, which had caused bitter and violent opposition in the
U.S. colonies.
*
1774 - First sighting of
Orion Nebula by
William Herschel.
*
1776 - The American
War of Independence: The Americans capture "
Dorchester Heights" dominating the port of
Boston,
Massachusetts.
*
1778 - The
Continental Congress voted to
ratify both the
Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the
Treaty of Alliance with
France. The two treaties were the first entered into by the
U.S. government.
*
1789 - In
New York, New York New York City, the first
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress meets and declares the new
Constitution of the United States is in effect.
*
1790 -
France is divided into 83 ''
département in France départements'', which cut across the
provinces of France former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.
*
1791 -
Vermont is admitted as the 14th
U.S. state.
* 1791 - A
Constitutional Act is introduced by the British
House of Commons in
London which envisages the separation of
Canada into Lower
Canada (
Quebec) and Upper
Canada (
Ontario).
*
1793 -
France French troops conquer
Geertruidenberg,
Netherlands.
*
1794 - The
11th Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution was passed by the
U.S. Congress. The
Amendment limited the
jurisdiction of the
federal courts to automatically hear cases brought against a
state by the citizens of another state. Later interpretations expanded this to include citizens of the state being sued, as well.
*
1797 - Inauguration of
John Adams as 2nd
President of the
USA.
*
1801 -
Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd
President of the
USA, becomes the first
United States U.S. president inaugurated in
Washington,
DC.
*
1804 - The
Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of
New South Wales (
Australia).
* 1804 - The
British and Foreign Bible Society (
BFBS) was founded at a large interdenominational meeting in
London.
*
1809 - Inauguration of
James Madison as 4th
President of the
USA.
*
1813 -
Russian troops fighting the army of
Napoleon reach
Berlin in
Germany and the
France French garrison
evacuate the city without a fight.
*
1814 -
Americans defeat the
British at the
Battle of Longwoods between
London and
Thamesville near present-day
Wardsville,
Ontario.
*
1817 - Inauguration of
James Monroe as 5th
President of the
USA.
*
1824 - The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" was founded in
Britain, later to be renamed The
Royal National Lifeboat Institution in
1858.
*
1825 - Inauguration of
John Q. Adams as 6th
President of the
USA.
*
1829 - Inauguration of
Andrew Jackson as 7th
President of the
USA. Sunsequently, an unruly crowd mobs the
White House during the
President Jackson inaugural ball.
*
1830 -
Vincenzo Bellini's
opera ''
I Capuleti e i Montecchi'', premieres in
Venice.
*
1837 - Inauguration of
Martin Van Buren as 8th
President of the
USA.
* 1837 -
Chicago, Illinois Chicago is granted a city charter by
Illinois.
*
1841 - Inauguration of
William Henry Harrison as 9th
President of the
USA.
Harrison died exactly one month into his term — the briefest
presidency in the history of the office - and was the first
president to die in office.
*
1845 - Inauguration of
James Polk as 11th
President of the
USA.
*
1848 -
Charles Albert of Savoy Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the ''
Statuto Albertino'' that will represent the first
constitution of the ''
Kingdom of Italy Regno d'Italia''
*
1849 -
Zachary Taylor refuses to be sworn in office as 12th
President of the
USA on a
Sabbath (
Sunday). Consequently the office of
President of the United States of America is vacant for a single day.
Urban legend instead holds that
David Rice Atchison,
President pro tempore of the United States Senate was
President ''
de jure'' for a single day.
*
1853 -
Pope Pius IX recovers
Catholic hierarchy in
Netherlands.
* 1853 - Inauguration of
Franklin Pierce as 14th
President of the
USA.
* 1853 - An oncoming
mail train shatters the rear car of a stalled
Pennsylvania Railroad emigrant train in the
Allegheny Mountains near
Mount Union, Pennsylvania, killing seven. This was the highest single
U.S. accident toll up to this time.
*
1857 - Inauguration of
James Buchanan as 15th
President of the
USA.
*
1859 -
Charter of the
France French Opera House in
New Orleans is granted, which opens on
December 1 of the same year with a gala performance of
Rossini's "
William Tell".
*
1861 -
President Lincoln opens
Government Printing Office.
* 1861 -
Confederate States adopt "
Stars and Bars" flag, on the same day that
Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as 16th
President of the
USA.
*
1863 -
Territory of
Idaho established.
*
1869 - Inauguration of
Ulysses Grant as 18th
President of the
USA.
*
1877 -
Emile Berliner invents the
microphone.
* 1877 -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's
ballet ''
Swan Lake'' debuts.
* 1877 - Inauguration of
Rutherford Hayes as 19th
President of the
USA.
*
1880 - ''New York Daily Graphic'' publishes the first half-tone engraving.
*
1881 -
St. Thomas,
Ontario,
Canada receives its city
charter.
* 1881 - Inauguration of
James Garfield as 20th
President of the
USA.
*
1885 -
Gilbert & Sullivan's
opera ''
The Mikado'' premieres in
London.
* 1885 - Inauguration of
Grover Cleveland as 22nd
President of the
USA.
*
1887 -
Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first
automobile which he test runs in
Esslingen and
Cannstatt,
Germany.
*
1889 - Inauguration of
Benjamin Harrison as 23rd
President of the
USA.
*
1890 - The longest bridge in
Britain, the
Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in
Scotland is opened by the
Prince of Wales, who later became King
Edward VII. [http://archive.scotsman.com/article.cfm?id=TSC/1890/03/04/Ar00401]
*
1893 -
Congo Free State: The army of
Francis, Baron Dhanis attacks the
Lualaba, enabling him to transport his troops across the Upper
Congo and, capture
Nyangwe almost without an effort.
* 1893 - Second time inauguration of
Grover Cleveland as 24th
President of the
USA.
*
1894 - Great fire in
Shanghai. Over 1,000 buildings are destroyed.
*
1895 -
Premiere of
Gustav Mahler's second
symphony in
Berlin.
*
1897 - Inauguration of
William McKinley as 25th
President of the
USA.
*
1899 -
Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of
Cooktown,
Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.
*
1902 - In
Chicago, Illinois Chicago, the
American Automobile Association is established.
*
1904 -
Russo-Japanese War:
Russian troops in
Korea retreat toward
Manchuria followed by 100,000
Japanese troops.
*
1905 -
Gerhart Hauptmann's '
Elga' premieres in
Berlin.
*
1907 -
Louis Botha is appointed
Prime Minister of the
Transvaal,
South Africa.
*
1908 - Collingwood Primary School,
Ohio catches fire; 180 die.
*
1909 - Inauguration of
William Taft as 27th
President of the
USA.
*
1911 -
Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes the first
socialist congressman in
United States U.S..
*
1913 - Inauguration of
Woodrow Wilson as 28th
President of the
USA.
* 1913 - The
United States Department of Commerce and
United States Department of Labor are established by splitting the duties of the 10-year-old
Department of Commerce and Labor.
* 1913 - First
United States U.S. law regulating the shooting of
migratory birds passed.
*
1917 -
Jeannette Rankin of
Montana becomes the first female member of the
United States House of Representatives.
* 1917 -
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia's renunciation of the
throne is made public, and Tsar
Nicholas II of
Russia publicly issues his
abdication manifesto.
*
1921 - Inauguration of
Warren Harding as 29th
President of the
USA.
* 1921 -
Hot Springs National Park created in
Arkansas.
*
1923 -
Lenin's last article about
Red bureaucracy was published in ''
Pravda''.
*
1924 - The song '
Happy Birthday To You' is published by
Clayton F. Summy.
*
1925 -
Calvin Coolidge becomes the first
President of the United States to have his
inauguration broadcasted on
radio.
*
1926 - The government of
Dirk Jan de Geer takes office in The
Netherlands.
*
1929 - Inauguration of
Herbert Hoover as 31st
President of the
USA.
* 1929 -
Charles Curtis becomes the first
Native Americans in the United States native-American Vice President.
*
1931 - The British
Viceroy of
India,
Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and
Mohandas Gandhi (
Mahatma Gandhi) meet to sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing that
salt is freely used by the poorest layers of the population.
*
1933 -
Frances Perkins becomes
United States Secretary of Labor, first female member of the
United States Cabinet.
* 1933 -
Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the
Supreme Court of Canada.
* 1933 - The 32nd
President of the
USA,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt, outlines his "
New Deal" in his inauguration speech.
* 1933 - The
Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure -
Chancellor of Austria Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates
authoritarian rule by decree (see
Austrofascism).
*
1936 - First flight of
airship Hindenburg,
Germany.
*
1941 -
United Kingdom Britain launches
Operation Claymore on the
Lofoten Islands, during
World War II.
* 1941 -
Adolf Hitler applies pressure on
Yugoslavia to join the
Tripartite Pact.
*
1944 - First
United States U.S. bombing of
Berlin and Anti-
Germany strikes in northern
Italy.
* 1944 - In
Ossining (village), New York Ossining, New York,
Louis Buchalter, the leader of
1930s crime syndicate
Murder, Inc., is executed at
Sing Sing (prison) Sing Sing.
*
1945 - In
Britain,
Princess Elizabeth, later to become
Queen Elizabeth II, joins the
British Army as a driver.
* 1945 -
Lapland War:
Finland declares
war on
nazi-Germany.
*
1946 - ''
The Voice Of Frank Sinatra'', the first
Frank Sinatra album ever, is released by
Columbia Records.
* 1946 -
C.G.E. Mannerheim resigns from the post of
President of Finland.
* 1949 -
Security Council of
UN recommends membership for
Israel.
*
1950 -
United States U.S. Premiere of
Walt Disney's animated film ''
Cinderella''.
*
1952 -
Ernest Hemingway completes his short novel
The Old Man and the Sea.
* 1952 -
Ronald Reagan marries his second wife
Nancy Davis in the
San Fernando Valley of
Los Angeles.
*
1954 -
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in
Boston, Massachusetts Boston announces the first successful
kidney transplant.
* 1954 -
United States U.S. warns
Latin America against international
communism.
*
1955 - First radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent of
America (continent) America.
*
1959 -
United States U.S. Pioneer IV misses
Moon and becomes the second (
United States U.S. first) artificial planet.
*
1960 -
France French freighter 'La Coubre' explodes in
Havana,
Cuba killing 100.
Fidel Castro blames the
U.S.
*
1961 -
Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as
Secretary General of
NATO.
*
1962 -
AEC announces that the first atomic power plant in
Antarctica is in operation.
*
1963 - In
Paris six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate
President Charles de Gaulle.
*
1964 -
Jimmy Hoffa, President of the
Teamsters, is convicted by a Federal jury of tampering with a Federal jury.
* 1966 -
John Lennon says
The Beatles are
John Lennon#"More popular than Jesus" controversy "more popular than Jesus" which sparks controversy in the
United States.
* 1966 -
Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at
Tokyo, killing 64 people.
*
1967 - The first
North Sea gas is pumped ashore at
Easington,
County Durham by
BP (
British Petroleum).
*
1970 -
France French submarine
Eurydice explodes.
*
1971 -
Pierre Elliott Trudeau marries
Margaret Sinclair in St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church,
Vancouver and becomes the first
Canadian Prime Minister to marry while in office. The couple divorced in
1984.
*
1972 -
Libya and the
Soviet Union sign a co-operation treaty.
*
1974 -
Harold Wilson becomes
British Prime Minister following the resignation of his predecessor
Edward Heath.
*
1975 -
Charlie Chaplin is knighted by
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II of England.
* 1975 - First television coverage of a
Canadian parliamentary committee.
*
1976 - The
Maguire Seven were found guilty of the offence of possessing explosives and were subsequently jailed for 14 years.
* 1976 - The
Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in
Northern Ireland resulting in
direct rule of
Northern Ireland from
London via the
British parliament.
*
1977 - The
1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern
Europe kills more than 1,500.
* 1977 - First
Cray-1 supercomputer shipped to the
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
New Mexico.
*
1978 -
Chicago Daily News, founded in
1875, publishes last issue.
*
1979 -
United States U.S. Voyager I photo reveals
Jupiter's rings.
*
1980 -
Nationalist leader
Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become
Zimbabwe's first black
prime minister.
*
1982 -
NASA launches "Intelsat V".
*
1985 - The
Food and Drug Administration approves a
blood test for
AIDS, used since then for screening all
blood donations in the
United States.
*
1986 - Launch of the
Today national
tabloid newspaper in the
United Kingdom that pioneered the use of computer photosetting and full-colour
offset printing at a time when British national newspapers were still using
Linotype machines and
letterpress.
*
1987 -
President Reagan addressed the nation on the
Iran-Contra Affair, acknowledging his overtures to
Iran had “deteriorated� into an arms-for-hostages deal.
*
1989 - Six people die and 80 are injured, some of them seriously, at the
Purley Station rail crash in
Surrey,
England.
* 1989 -
Time, Inc. and
Warner Communications announce plans for a merger forming
Time-Warner.
*
1990 -
Space Shuttle program:
STS-36 (
Atlantis VI)
United States U.S. 65th manned space mission returns from space.
*
1991 - Most primitive form of
World Wide Web is put
online.
* 1991 -
Bank of Credit and Commerce International divests itself of
First American National Bank.
* 1991 - The
Soviet parliament in
Moscow,
Russia ratifies a six-nation
treaty on
German unification.
* 1991 - In
Iraq,
Saddam Hussein releases 6
United States U.S., 3
British and 1
Italian people Italian prisoner of war.
* 1991 -
Sheik Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the
Prime Minister of Kuwait, returned to his country for the first time since
Iraq's invasion.
* 1991 -
Vermont celebrates its Bicentennial statehood.
*
1993 - Authorities announce the capture of suspected
World Trade Center bombing conspirator
Mohammad Salameh.
*
1994 - Four
terrorism terrorists are convicted for their roles in the
World Trade Center bombing which killed six and injured more than a thousand.
* 1994 -
Bosnia's
Croats and
Moslems signed an agreement to form a
federation in a loose economic union with
Croatia.
*
1995 -
Michael Johnson (athlete) Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec).
* 1995 -
George Foreman loses
World Boxing Association WBA boxing title, refusing to fight
Tony Tucker.
*
1996 - A train carrying
propane and
sodium hydroxide Weyauwega derailment derails in
Weyauwega, Wisconsin and catches fire. 2,200 homes near the accident site are evacuated for 16 days.
*
1997 -
President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.
* 1997 - In
London, the match-fixing trial of footballers
Bruce Grobbelaar,
John Fashanu and
Hans Segers ends in deadlock with the jury failing to reach verdicts.
*
1997 -
Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the
Sun (1.04 AU).
* 1997 - "Zeya Start-1" is launched in (
Russia).
*
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.
* 1998 -
Government, naval and university computers running
Windows NT across the
United States crash as a result of a
hacker. The crash affects computers running at
MIT,
Northwestern University, the
University of Minnesota, and the
University of California campuses at
Berkeley,
Irvine,
Los Angeles, and
San Diego.
*
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.
*
2001 - During the early hours a massive bomb located in a taxi explodes in front of
BBC Television Centre in
London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to dissident
Ireland Irish republicans.
* 2001 -
U.S. Attack on 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.
* 2001 -
Swiss referendum overwhelmingly rejects a proposal for immediate membership talks with the
European Union.
* 2001 -
Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern
Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
*
2002 -
Canada banned
human embryo cloning but permitted government-funded scientists to use
embryos left over from
fertility treatment or
abortions.
*
2003 - In the southern
Philippines, a bomb hidden in a backpack exploded and killed at least 19 people at an airport.
* 2003 - In the Indian-controlled portion of
Kashmir, at least 9 people were killed and 52 were injured when a bus fell into a deep gorge.
*
2004 - The guilty verdict for
Moroccan al-Qaeda suspect
Mounir el Motassadeq's involvement in the
September 11, 2001 attacks is overturned by the
Germany German appeals court, which orders a retrial.
* 2004 - The files of
Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun are released to the public five years after his death.
*
2005 - The car of released
Italy Italian hostage
Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by
Military of the United States US soldiers in
Iraq, causing the death of one passenger and injuring two more.
* 2005 -
United Nations warns that about 90 million
Africans could be infected by the
HIV virus in the future without further action against the spread of the disease.
*
2006 - The central
Papeete power station is damaged by a fire, resulting in limited power for some areas of
Tahiti for a couple of weeks. [http://www.pacificmagazine.net/pina/pinadefault2.php?urlpinaid=20702]
* 2006 -
Anti-war campaigners criticised
British Prime Minister Tony Blair after he suggested his decision to go to
war in
Iraq would ultimately be judged by
God. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4773124.stm]
* 2006 - A new species of
shark was discovered in
Mexico's
Sea of Cortez, bringing the types of
Mustelus shark found in the eastern
North Pacific to five. [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/archive.htm?d=3/4/2006]
Births
*
1188 -
Blanche de Castile, Queen of
France, wife of King
Louis VIII (d.
1252)
*
1394 - Prince
Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (d.
1460)
*
1492 -
Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer (d. c
1540)
*
1651 -
John Somers, 1st Baron Somers,
Lord Chancellor Lord Chancellor of England (d.
1716)
*
1665 -
Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (d.
1694)
*
1678 -
Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d.
1741)
*
1719 -
George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d.
1777)
*
1745 -
Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author, Sea Songs (d.
1814)
*
1747 -
Kazimierz Pułaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general (d.
1779)
*
1754 -
Benjamin Waterhouse, Cambridge physician and medical professor (
smallpox vaccine pioneer) (d.
1846)
* 1754 -
Dieudonné-Pascal Pieltain, French composer (d.
1833)
*
1756 -
Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d.
1823)
*
1782 -
Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist/writer,
Swiss Family Robinson (d.
1830)
*
1792 -
Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d.
1861)
*
1793 -
Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d.
1851)
*
1819 -
Charles Oberthur, Munich-born harp virtuoso and composer (d.
1895)
*
1822 -
Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician, inventor of the
harmonograph (d.
1880)
*
1826 -
Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d.
1863)
*
1835 -
John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d.
1911)
*
1847 -
Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d.
1904).
*
1859 -
Alexander Popov, Russian physicist (d.
1905)
*
1864 - Rear Admiral
David W. Taylor, Naval architect and engineer of the United States Navy (d.
1940)
*
1870 -
Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet, author and artist (d.
1944)
*
1876 -
Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d.
1947)
*
1877 -
Garrett Morgan, American inventor (d.
1963)
* 1877 -
Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer (d.
1957)
*
1881 -
Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d.
1948)
*
1888 -
Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (d.
1931)
*
1889 -
Pearl White, [Victoria], U.S. actress/stunt woman, Perils of Pauline (d.
1938)
*
1895 -
Shemp Howard, American actor, comedian (
Three Stooges) (d.
1955)
*
1897 -
Lefty O'Doul, baseball player and restaurateur (d.
1969)
*
1898 -
Georges Dumézil, philologist, French academic (d.
1940)
*
1901 -
Charles Goren, bridge expert (d.
1991)
*
1903 -
Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish statesman (d.
1973)
* 1903 -
Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (d.
1990)
*
1904 -
George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (d.
1968)
*
1906 -
Meindert DeJong American author of children's books (d.
1991)
*
1909 -
Harry Helmsley, American real estate entrepreneur(d.
1997)
*
1910 -
Tancredo Neves, Civil rights activist (d.
1985)
*
1913 -
John Garfield, American actor (d.
1952)
*
1914 -
Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d.
2002)
*
1915 -
Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer, Monte Carlo (d.
1997)
*
1916 -
Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist (d.
1997)
* 1916 -
Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (d.
2000)
*
1920 -
Jean Lecanuet, French politician
*
1921 -
Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (d.
1987)
* 1921 -
Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born U.S. composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and educator (b.
1921)
*
1923 -
Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer and broadcaster
*
1925 -
Paul Mauriat, French musician
*
1927 -
Thayer David, actor (d.
1978)
* 1927 -
Robert Orben, U.S. magician and comedy writer
*
1928 -
Alan Sillitoe, English writer
* 1928 -
Samuel Adler, composer
*
1929 -
Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor, conductor of
London Philharmonic Orchestra 1969-78
*
1932 -
Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist
*1932 -
Miriam Makeba, South African singer, Grammy 1965
* 1932 -
Ed Roth Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, American custom car designer (d.
2001)
*
1934 -
Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist
* 1934 -
Mario Davidovsky, Argentinian composer, Synchronisms
* 1934 -
John Duffey, bluegrass musician (d.
1996)
*
1935 -
Bent Larsen, Danish chess player
*
1936 -
Jim Clark Scottish race car driver, Indianapolis 500 (d.
1968)
* 1936 -
David Thompson, British food magnate and multi-millionaire
* 1936 -
Aribert Reimann, German opera composer
*
1937 -
Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer
* 1937 -
Yuri Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut (d.
2003)
*
1938 -
Don Perkins, American football player
*
1939 -
Paula Prentiss, American actress
*
1941 -
Adrian Lyne, English film director
*
1942 -
Charles C. Krulak, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
*
1943 -
Zoltan Jeney, composer
*
1944 -
Bobby Womack, American R&B singer and songwriter and guitarist
*
1945 -
Dieter Meier, Swiss singer and children book writer
*
1946 -
Harvey Goldsmith, impresario
* 1946 -
Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur/multi-millionaire
*
1947 -
Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
*
1948 -
Chris Squire, British musician (
Yes (band) Yes)
* 1948 -
Shakin' Stevens (Michael Barratt), Welsh rocker
* 1948 -
James Ellroy, American writer
*
1950 -
Rick Perry,
Governor of Texas
* 1950 -
Billy Gibbons, American singer & guitarist (
ZZ Top)
*
1951 -
Kenny Dalglish Scottish footballer and football manager
* 1951 -
Chris Rea, British singer, rock guitarist and musician
*
1952 -
Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
* 1952 -
Ronn Moss, actor
* 1952 -
Scott Hicks, movie director
*
1953 -
Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussianist
* 1953 -
Kay Lenz, actress
*
1954 -
Willie Thorne, English snooker player
* 1954 -
Adrian Zmed, American actor and dancer
* 1954 -
Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress and comedienne
* 1954 -
Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer
*
1955 -
Dominique Pinon, French actor
*
1956 -
Léon-Bernard Giot, Belgian musician
*
1958 -
Patricia Heaton, American actress
* 1958 -
Lennie Lee, British performance artist
*
1960 -
Mykelti Williamson, American actor
*
1961 -
Ray Mancini, American boxer
* 1961 -
Steven Weber, American actor
*
1963 -
Jason Newsted, American bassist (
Metallica)
*
1965 -
Gary Helms, American kickboxer
* 1965 -
Paul W.S. Anderson, British filmmaker, producer and screenwriter
*
1966 -
Kevin Johnson, American basketball player
* 1966 -
Grand Puba (Brand Nubian), American rapper
* 1966 -
Dav Pilkey, American author and illustrator
* 1966 -
The Sundays Patrick Hannan, English pop drummer (The Sundays)
*
1967 -
Evan Dando, American musician (
The Lemonheads)
*
1968 -
Patsy Kensit, English actress
*
1969 -
Chastity Bono, actress, daughter of
Sonny and Cher
*
1971 -
Fergal Lawler, Irish drummer (
The Cranberries)
* 1971 -
Nick Stabile, American actor
*
1972 -
Jos Verstappen, former Dutch
Formula 1 driver
*
1977 -
Jason Marsalis, jazz musician
*
1982 -
Landon Donovan, American soccer player
*
1986 -
Margo Harshman, American actress
*
1990 -
Andrea Bowen, American actress
*
1993 -
Jenna Boyd, American actress
Deaths
*
1193 -
Saladin, Turkish sultan (b.
1137)
*
1238 -
Joan of England, wife of
Alexander II of Scotland (b.
1210)
* 1238 -
George II of
Vladimir-Suzdal (
Yuri II,
Grand Prince of
Vladimir) (b.
1189)
*
1484 -
Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b.
1458)
*
1496 - Archduke
Sigismund of Austria (b.
1427)
*
1604 -
Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b.
1539)
*
1615 -
Hans von Aachen, German painter (b.
1552)
*
1619 -
Anne of Denmark, wife of
James I of England (b.
1574)
*
1710 -
Louis III, Prince of Condé (b.
1668)
*
1733 -
Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b.
1656)
*
1793 -
Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre, French admiral (b.
1725)
*
1795 -
John Collins (delegate) John Collins, American politician (b.
1717)
*
1805 -
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b.
1725)
*
1827 -
Ira Remsen American chemist, discoverer of the
artificial sweetener saccharin (b.
1762)
*
1832 -
Jean-François Champollion, French classical scholar, philologist, orientalist, and Egyptologist. (b.
1790)
*
1852 -
Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (b.
1809)
*
1853 -
Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b.
1774)
*
1858 -
Matthew Perry (naval officer) Matthew Perry, U.S. naval officer (b.
1794)
*
1866 -
Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder of the
Disciples of Christ (b.
1788)
*
1868 -
Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the
Chisholm Trail (b.
1805)
*
1888 -
Amos Bronson Alcott, American reformer, philosopher and teacher (b.
1799)
*
1903 -
Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b.
1834)
*
1915 -
William Willett, Inventor of
Daylight Saving Time (b.
1856)
*
1916 -
Franz Marc, German artist (b.
1880)
*
1918 -
Eugene d'Harcourt, Composer and critic (b.
1859)
*
1922 -
Bert Williams [Egbert Austin Williams], African American entertainer
*
1925 -
Monte Ward, baseball player (b.
1860)
* 1925 -
Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (b.
1854)
*
1927 -
Ira Remsen American chemist, discoverer of the
artificial sweetener saccharin (b.
1846)
*
1940 -
Hamlin Garland [Hamlin Hannibal Garland], American novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer (b.
1860)
*
1941 -
Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1858)
*
1944 -
Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster, head of Murder, Inc. (b.
1897)
*
1946 -
Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b.
1886)
*
1948 -
Antonin Artaud, French actor, director, and author (b.
1896)
*
1952 -
Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1857)
*
1954 -
Noel Gay, English composer, (b.
1898)
*
1959 -
Maxey Long, American athlete, (b.
1878)
*
1960 -
Leonard Warren, American operatic baritone (b.
1911)
*
1963 -
William Carlos Williams, American poet (b.
1883)
*
1969 -
Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)
*
1974 -
Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter (b.
1903)
*
1976 -
Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b.
1886)
*
1977 -
Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b.
1951)
*
1979 -
Willi Unsoeld, American mountain climber (b.
1926)
*
1981 -
Torin Thatcher, Indian born actor (b.
1905)
*
1986 -
Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (
The Band) (b.
1943)
*
1990 -
Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b.
1967)
*
1992 -
Art Babbitt, animator (
Mister Magoo,
Goofy) (b.
1907)
*
1994 -
John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (b.
1950)
*
1995 -
Eden Ahbez [Alexander Aberle], composer, unique character of pre-rock American popular music (b.
1908)
*
1996 -
Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b.
1912)
*
1997 -
Robert H. Dicke, American experimental physicist (b.
1916)
*
1999 -
Harry A. Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b.
1908)
*1999 -
Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (b.
1921)
*
2001 -
Glenn Hughes (singer), American musician (
The Village People)
*2001 -
Harold Stassen, American politician (b.
1907)
*
2003 -
Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian politician and bank robber (b.
1926)
*
2004 -
John McGeoch, Scottish musician (
Siouxsie and the Banshees and
Public Image Ltd.) (b.
1955)
* 2004 -
Claude Nougaro, French singer (b.
1929)
* 2004 -
Stephen Sprouse, Fashion designer, artist, and photographer (b.
1953)
*
2005 -
Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent (b.
1953)
* 2005 -
Una Hale, Australian soprano (b.
1922)
* 2005 -
Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman (b.
1951)
* 2005 -
Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-born Belarusian translator and writer (b.
1934)
*
2006 -
Roman Ogaza, Polish football player (b.
1952)
* 2006 -
Edgar Valter, Estonian children's book illustrator and cartoonist (b.
1929)
Holidays and observances
*
Catholicism - Feast day of
Saint Casimir St Casimir,
patron saint of
Lithuania.
*
Catholicism - Feast day of
Saint Adrian of Nicomedia,
bishop of
Saint Andrew's, and his Companions.
*
Catholicism - Feast day of
Saint Basil and his Companions.
*
Catholicism - Feast day of
Humbert III of Savoy.
*
Catholicism - Feast day of
Saint Placide Viel.
*
Catholicism - Feast day of
Pierre de Cluny.
*
Catholicism - Commemoration of
Saint Lucius I,
pope,
martyr.
*
Wales - Feast day of
Rhiannon, Celtic Moon Goddess.
*
Pennsylvania -
Charter Day (
1681).
*
Vermont -
Admission Day (
1791).
*
St. Thomas,
Ontario,
Canada -
Charter Day (
1881)
*
United States -
Inauguration Day (
1789 -
1933)
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
''The New York Times'': On This Day
-
On This Day in Canada
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March 3 -
March 5 -
February 4 -
April 4 --
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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ar:4 مارس
an:4 de marzo
ast:4 de marzu
bg:4 март
be:4 Ñ?акавіка
bs:4. mart
ca:4 de març
ceb:Marso 4
cv:Пуш, 4
co:4 di marzu
cs:4. březen
cy:4 Mawrth
da:4. marts
de:4. März
et:4. märts
el:4 ΜαÏ?τίου
es:4 de marzo
eo:4-a de marto
eu:Martxoaren 4
fo:4. mars
fr:4 mars
fy:4 maart
fur:4 di Març
ga:4 Márta
gl:4 de marzo
ko:3ì›” 4ì?¼
hr:4. ožujka
io:4 di marto
ilo:Marso 4
id:4 Maret
ia:4 de martio
ie:4 marte
is:4. mars
it:4 marzo
he:4 במרץ
jv:4 Maret
ka:4 მ�რტი
csb:4 strumiannika
ku:4'ê adarê
lt:Kovo 4
lb:4. Mäerz
hu:Március 4
mk:4 март
ms:4 Mac
nap:4 'e mà rzo
nl:4 maart
ja:3月4日
no:4. mars
nn:4. mars
oc:4 de març
os:4 мартъийы
pl:4 marca
pt:4 de Março
ro:4 martie
ru:4 марта
se:NjukÄ?amánu 4.
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sq:4 Mars
scn:4 di marzu
simple:March 4
sk:4. marec
sl:4. marec
sr:4. март
fi:4. maaliskuuta
sv:4 mars
tl:Marso 4
tt:4. Mart
te:మార�చి 4
th:4 มีนาคม
vi:4 tháng 3
tr:4 Mart
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