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Today in History ~ March 4
Events1152 - Frederik I ("Barbarossa") crowned Roman-German king
1461 - Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margareth -- Edward IV recognized as King of England
1665 - English King Charles II declares war on Netherlands
1681 - To satisfy a debt, England's King Charles II granted a royal charter, deed and governorship of Pennsylvania to William Penn.
1699 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck, Germany
1774 - 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)
1789 - The Constitution of the United States went into effect as the first federal Congress met in New York. (The lawmakers then adjourned for lack of a quorum. (9 senators, 13 reps) [H]
1791 - Pres Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session
1791 - Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
1793 - Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)
1797 - John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of US
1798 - Catholic women forced to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews
1801 - Thomas Jefferson became the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
1809 - Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes
1825 - John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president
1829 - Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president, an unruly crowd mobbed the White House during the inaugural reception.
1830 - Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi, (Romeo & Juliette) premieres in Venice
1835 - HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion
1837 - Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president
1837 - The Illinois Legislature granted a city charter to Chicago.
1841 - Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison
1845 - James K Polk inaugurated as 11th president
1849 - US has no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Sen David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd
1861 - Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag
1861 - Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as 16th pres; 1st time US has 5 living, former presidents [H]
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 - Tchaikowsky's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer," premieres in Moscow
1881 - Holmes & Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet," 1st case together
1881 - James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th president
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 - 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 ("Resurrection"), premieres in Berlin
1897 - William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US
1902 - American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
1913 - 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed
1913 - Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope," premieres in Monte Carlo
1913 - Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president
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
1930 - Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
1933 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as 32nd president, pledging to lead the country out of the Great Depression. & says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" [H]
1933 -The start of President Roosevelt's first administration brought with it the first woman to serve in the Cabinet: Labor Secretary Frances Perkins.
1936 - 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
1944 - 1st US bombing of Berlin
1944 - Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
1945 - Finland declares war on Nazi Germany
1949 - Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister
1952 - Actors Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis were married in San Fernando Valley, Calif.
1958 - The U.S. atomic submarine Nautilus reached the North Pole by passing beneath the Arctic ice cap.
1964 - Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
1966 - John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
1966 - North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by BP
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign
1974 - Harold Wilson replaces resigning Edward Heath as British premier
1977 - 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, NM
1978 - Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
1981 - A jury in Salt Lake City convicted Joseph Paul Franklin, an avowed racist, of violating the civil rights of two black men who were shot to death.
1985 - War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"
1987 - In a nationwide address, President Reagan acknowledged his administration swapped arms to Iran for U.S. hostages and said "it was a mistake."
1990 - The shuttle Atlantis landed safely after depositing in orbit a secret military satellite that was later reported to have failed.
1991 - The first allied prisoners of war were released as Iraq began complying with the terms of the official U.N. cease-fire.
1992 - Another round of Middle East peace negotiations concluded in Washington, D.C., with Israel rejecting a plan for Palestinian elections.
1992 - A Virginia fertility specialist was convicted of fraud and perjury for using his own sperm in the artificial insemination of his patients.
1993 - A $69 million class-action lawsuit was filed in San Francisco against the U.S. government by 8,600 Amer-asian children who claimed their U.S. military fathers abandoned them in the Philippines.
1993 - A Muslim fundamentalist arrested in the World Trade Center bombing appeared in Manhattan federal court.
1993 - A Virginia boy who sawed off his hand while earning $4 an hour sued his parents for $2 million for letting him use a circular saw.
1994 - 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
1994 - Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, announced he would not seek re-election.
1995 - Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital
1996 - A bombing at a shopping mall in Tel Aviv, Israel, killed 14 people, including the bombers.
1997 - President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research
1997 - President Clinton visited the scene of tornado destruction in his home state of Arkansas, where he also declared Ohio and Kentucky disaster areas because of floods.
1997 - For the third time in as many years, the Senate rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to require the federal government to balance its budget.
1997 - The Korean president named a new premier and replaced eight cabinet members in the wake of a scandal involving a steel company's alleged corrupt pressures on politicians.
1999 - A U.S. Marine pilot whose plane had snapped a ski lift cable high in Italy, killing 20 people, was acquitted of charges of involuntary homicide and manslaughter.
1999 - Monica's Story, former White House intern Monica Lewinsky's take on her affair with President Clinton, hit bookshelves nationwide.
2001 - President George W. Bush dedicated a $4 billion aircraft carrier in honor of former President Reagan.
2001 - An oceanside memorial was held in Hawaii for 9 people from a Japanese fishing boat who were killed when their vessel was accidentally sunk by a U.S. submarine.
Birthdays Today
1394 - Henry the Navigator, Prince/sponsor of Portuguese voyages of discovery
1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, Venice, Baroque violin virtuoso/composer (4 Seasons)
1742 - Johann Heinrich Egli, composer
1747 - Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general
1754 - Benjamin Waterhouse, physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer)
1756 - Sir Henry Raeburn (Scottish artist: mostly male portraits)
1765 - Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized)
1826 - John Buford, Major General (Union volunteers) -- established Union forces on the "high Ground" at Gettysburg, died in 1863
1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italy, astronomer (discovered canals of Mars)
1888 - Knute Rockne (College Football Hall of Famer: coach: Notre Dame [1918-1930]: 122 games: won 195, lost 12, tied 5;)
1901 - Charles H Goren, bridge master (26 US Titles)
1909 - Harry B Helmsley, NYC, billionaire builder (Helsley Hotels) and landlord (Empire State Building)
1913 - John Garfield (Garfinkle) (actor: Destination Tokyo, Gentlemen's Agreement, The Postman Always Rings Twice)
1917 - Clyde McCullough (baseball)
1918 - Margaret Osborne DuPont (tennis champion: Women's Singles: French Open [1946, 1949], Wimbledon [1947], US Open [1948, 1949, 1950])
1929 - Bernard Haitink, Amsterdam Neth, conductor (London Philharmonic Orchestra 1969-78)
1931 - Gennady Rozhdestvensky, composer "Carmen fantasy for Persussion"
1932 - Miriam (Zensile) Makeba (singer: the first black South African to attain international stardom: the Empress of African Song)
1936 - Jim Clark (British auto racer: Indianapolis 500 winner [1965])
1938 - Paula Prentiss (Ragusa) (actress: What's New Pussycat; Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Where the Boys Are)
1939 - Barbara McNair (actress: Change of Habit, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs)
1939 - JoAnne Gunderson Carner (golfer: U.S. Open Champion [1971, 1976]; Du Maurier Classic Champion [1975, 1978])
1944 - Bobby Womack (songwriter: I'm a Midnight Mover, I'm in Love; singer: Lookin' for a Love, Harry Hippie, If You Think You're Lonely Now)
1946 - Danny Frisella (baseball)
1953 - Kay Lenz (actress: Rich Man Poor Man, Trapped in Space, Death Wish 4)
1961 - Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini (middleweight boxer)
1969 - Chastity Bono (singer; daughter of Sonny & Cher)
1972 - Robert Smith, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
Famous deaths
1484 - Kazimierz, the Saint, Polish ruler/saint, dies at 25
1595 - Robert Southwell, English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest
1617 - Arcangelo Crivelli, composer, dies at 70
1831 - Georg Michael Telemann, composer, dies at 82
1852 - Nikolai Gogol, writer, dies at 43
1868 - Jesse Chisholm, who blazed the famous Chisholm Trail, dies in Oklahoma of food poisoning.
1883 - Alexander H Stephens, VP Confederate States, dies at 71
1944 - Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, a leader of U.S. organized crime during the 1930s, established "Murder, Inc.," is executed for murder at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York.
1953 - Sergei S Prokoviev, Russian composer (Peter & the wolf), dies at 61
1960 - Leonard Warren, US baritone, dies on stage on a ringing high note, during a performance of La Forza del Destino, at 48
1963 - William Carlos Williams, US physician/poet, dies at 79
1974 - Adolph Gottlieb, US painter, dies at 71
1992 - Christian K Nelson, inventor (Eskimo Pie), dies at 98
1994 - John Candy, actor (SCTV, Uncle Buck), dies from a heart attack at 43
1996 - Minnie Pearl dies
2001 - Perennial presidential candidate Harold E. Stassen died in Bloomington, Minn., at age 93.
2001 - Singer Glenn Hughes, the biker character in the disco band the Village People, died in New York at age 50.
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