Historical Events on March 4

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• 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.
• 938 Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, the patron saint of the Czech state

• 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
• 1492 King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England.

• 1590 Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda
• 1611 George Abbot appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1621 Jacarta, Java, renamed Batavia

• 1675 John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England

• 1699 Jews are expelled from Lübeck, Germany
• 1741 British fleet under Rear Admiral of the Blue Sir Chaloner Ogle reaches Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)

• 1776 The American War of Independence: The Americans capture Dorchester Heights dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts.

• 1789 US House of Representatives 1st full meeting, NYC, F 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)

• 1798 Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews

• 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.

• 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 Jackson inaugural ball
• 1830 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" premieres in Venice
• 1835 HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion

• 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

• 1846 8th Grand National: William Taylor aboard Pioneer wins
• 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 possibly had no president, Polk's term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Senator David Atchison (pres pro tem) may technically have assumed the office
• 1853 Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands
• 1853 William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US VP
• 1857 19th Grand National: Charlie Boyce aboard Emigrant wins
• 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, TN
• 1863 Territory of Idaho established
• 1865 Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag"
• 1865 Abraham Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as US president
• 1868 30th Grand National: Mr George Ede aboard The Lamb IRE wins

• 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 South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire
• 1882 Britain's first electric trams run in East London.

• 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

• 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-National Intelligencer)
• 1901 William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as US 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

• 1908 Primary school catches fire in Collingwood, Ohio (180 killed)

• 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 US Department 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)

• 1918 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)
• 1918 First recorded case of Spanish flu at Funston Army Camp, Kanas; start of worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million
• 1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
• 1921 Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas

• 1924 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
• 1925 US President 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

• 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 West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG
• 1933 Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves Austrian parliament
• 1933 Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, 1st female member of the US Cabinet
• 1933 Henderson, DeSylva & Brown's "Strike Me Pink" premieres in NYC
• 1933 Noordwijk soccer team forms

• 1933 Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada
• 1934 Easter Cross on Mt Davidson (San Francisco) dedicated

• 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 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

• 1949 Piet Van de Pol (Neth) becomes world champion billiard player
• 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 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 Secretary-General of NATO
• 1961 8th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Wake Forest beats Duke, 96-81
• 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 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)
• 1967 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT)
• 1967 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (US)

• 1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched

• 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
• 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 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

• 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
• 1978 25th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Wake Forest, 85-77
• 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

• 1982 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy & D Potvin
• 1982 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 504
• 1983 U.S. Public Health Service's publishes its guidelines for blood donors and AIDS
• 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 WWII veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"
• 1986 Border completes twin Test tons (140 & 114*) v NZ
• 1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike

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