This Day in History for 4th March

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 220

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 - Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king
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 at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha Edward IV recognized as king of England
1461 - Henry VI deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses
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
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
English Philosopher and Founder of Pennsylvania William Penn 1699 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany
1741 - English fleet under admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena
1774 - 1st 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 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 president inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson)
US President 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 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 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 inaugrated at 11th president
US President & General Andrew Jackson 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
1861 - Lincoln's inaugurated as 16th pres; 1st time US has 5 former pres
1861 - Pres 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 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
US President Ulysses S. Grant 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 Democratic pres 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 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
25th US President William McKinley 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
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)
US President Woodrow Wilson 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)

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 373

1188 - Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252)
1394 - Henry the Navigator, Prince/sponsors Portuguese voyages of discovery
1492 - Francesco de Layolle, composer
1610 - William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
1651 - John Baron Somers, (Whig), William III's chief minister (1696-1700)
1665 - Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694)
1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, Venice, Baroque violin virtuoso/composer (4 Seasons)
1702 - Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee (d. 1724)
1706 - Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect and architectural writer (d. 1759)
1715 - James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (d. 1763)
1719 - Aert Schouman, Dutch bird/portrait painter
1719 - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777)
1742 - Johann Heinrich Egli, composer
1745 - Charles Dibdin, English composer (d.1814)
1747 - Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general
1754 - Benjamin Waterhouse, physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer)
1754 - Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer
1756 - Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823)
1757 - Ignaz Malzat, composer
Violin Virtuoso & Composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678) 1765 - Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized)
1766 - Emanuel ADMJ, French historian (Napoleon)
1773 - Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer
1781 - Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)
1782 - Johann Wyss, Swiss folklorist/writer (Swiss Family Robinson)
1789 - Pavel P Gagarin, Russ monarch
1793 - Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
1798 - John Joseph Abercrombie, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1877
1813 - Wijnand J J Nuijen, romantic/water colors painter (Wrecked)
1817 - Edwards Pierrepont, American statesman, jurist and lawyer; 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
1819 - Charles Oberthur, composer
1820 - Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)
1822 - Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880)
1826 - John Buford, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1826 - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
1828 - Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1834 - Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer
1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italy, astronomer (discovered canals of Mars)
1835 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)
1838 - Paul Lacome, composer
1841 - Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (And fremmed Fugl)
1844 - Josip Jurcic, Slovenian writer (10th Brother)
1847 - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
1854 - Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945)
1856 - Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author (d. 1877)
1856 - Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)
1862 - Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Emden-polytroop)
1863 - Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist (d. 1947)
1863 - John Henry Wigmore, American jurist and expert in the law of evidence (d. 1943)
1864 - David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (d. 1940)
1870 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944)
1871 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
1873 - Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (d. 1904)
1873 - John H. Trumbull, 54th Governor of the U.S. state of Connecticut (d. 1961)
1875 - Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar/interpreter
1875 - Enrique Larreta, [E R Maza], Argentine diplomat (Gloria de Don Ramiro)
1875 - Suze Groeneweg, 1st Dutch female parliament member (SDAP, 1918-37)
1876 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)
1876 - Theodore Hardeen, Magician and stunt performer, founder of the Magician's Guild (d. 1945)
1877 - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer
1877 - Daniel G van Beuningen, Dutch art collector
1877 - Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)
1878 - Egbert Van Alstyne, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1951)
1878 - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (d. 1947)
1879 - Bernhard Kellermann, writer
1880 - Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (d. 1946)
1881 - Todor Aleksandrov, 19th century Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1924)
1881 - Maude Fealy, American actor (d. 1971)
1881 - Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (d. 1965)
1881 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d. 1948)
1882 - Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat, government minister, and former President of the League of Nations (d. 1941)
1883 - Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (d. 1956)
1884 - Red Murray, American professional baseball player (d. 1958)
1885 - Willem H Winkel, Dutch physician/founder (Red Cross of Curacao)
1886 - Paul Bazelaire, French cellist (d. 1958)
1887 - Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (d. 1953)
1888 - Knute Rockne, Norwegian/US football player/coach (Notre Dame)
1888 - Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (d. 1942
1888 - Jeff Pfeffer, American professional baseball pitcher (d. 1972)
1889 - Pearl White, [Victoria], US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline)
1889 - Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1967)
1889 - Oren E. Long, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawai'i (d. 1965)
1891 - Dazzy Vance, hall of fame pitcher (led NL in strike-outs 7-yrs)
1891 - Lois Wilson, founder of Al-Anon (d. 1988)
1895 - Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (d. 1953)
1897 - Francis "Lefty" O'Doul, baseball player/organized Japanese baseball
1898 - Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1940)
1899 - Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (d. 1962)
1900 - Roberto Soundy, El Salvador, trap shooter (Olympic-1968)
1900 - Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
1901 - Charles H Goren, bridge master (26 US Titles)
1901 - Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet (d. 1937)
1903 - Harold Berens, comedian
1903 - William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
1903 - John Scarne, American magician (d. 1985)
1904 - George Gamow, nuclear physicist/cosmologist/writer (1, 2, 3...
1904 - Joseph Schmidt Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)
1904 - Chief Tahachee, American-born Old Settler Cherokee Indian stage and film actor (d. 1978)
1906 - Meindert DeJong American author (d. 1991)
1906 - Georges Ronsse, Belgian national cyclo-cross and world champion road bicycle racer (d. 1969)
1906 - Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

1540 - Protestant Count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife
1989 - Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
2000 - "American Beauty" actress Mena Suvari (21) weds cinematographer Robert Brinkmann (38)

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

1960 - Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 194

251 - Pope Lucius I
480 - Saint Landry, bishop of Sées
1172 - Stephan III, King of Hungary (1162-72), dies; (b. 1147)
1193 - Saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137)
1238 - Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II (b. 1210)
1238 - Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1189)
1303 - Daniel of Moscow, Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1261)
1484 - Saint Casimir, Crown Prince of Poland dies at 25
1496 - Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)
1583 - Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, "Apostle of the North" (b. 1517)
1595 - Robert Southwell, English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest
1604 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539)
1615 - Hans von Aachen, German painter, dies
1617 - Arcangelo Crivelli, composer, dies at 70
1710 - Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)
1733 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656)
1744 - John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (b. 1669)
1762 - Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)
1793 - Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 44
1794 - Henri D count de Larochejacquelin, Fr Royalist Army leader, dies at 21
1795 - John Collins, American politician (b. 1717)
1804 - Karl Leopold Rollig, composer, dies
1805 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter, dies at 79
1807 - Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
1831 - Georg Michael Telemann, composer, dies at 82
1832 - Jean-François Champollion, French scholar (b. 1790)
1839 - Ignace Antoine Ladurner, pianist/composer, dies at 72
1851 - Michael Henkel, composer, dies at 70
1851 - James Richardson, British explorer (b. 1809)
1852 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer and playwright, dies at 43
1853 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b. 1774)
1858 - Matthew Perry, U.S. naval officer (b. 1794)
1864 - Thomas Starr King, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity), dies
1866 - Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at 77
1868 - Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
1872 - Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
1876 - Alfred Holmes, composer, dies at 38
1877 - Hendrik E van Rijgersma, Dutch governor (St Maarten), dies at 42
1883 - Alexander H Stephens, VP Confederate States, dies at 71
1888 - Amos Bronson Alcott, US theory/poet (Table Talk), dies at 88
1903 - Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant), dies at 68
1906 - John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831)
1910 - Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
1915 - William Willett, inventor of Daylight Saving Time (b. 1856)
1916 - Franz Marc, German painter/co-founder (Blaue Reiter), killed at 36
1918 - Eugene D'Harcourt, composer, dies at 58
1922 - Bert Williams, famous black, dies at 46, in NYC
1925 - Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer, dies at 70
1925 - James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
1925 - John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1927 - Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846)
1933 - Willie Walker, US jazz singer/guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36
1936 - Ruben Mattias Liljefors, composer, dies at 64
1938 - George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852)
1938 - Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
1940 - Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860)
1941 - Edoardo Mascheroni, composer, dies at 81
1942 - Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, composer, dies at 62
1943 - Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek foreign minister, dies at 71
1943 - Pieter C Boutens, Dutch poet (Beatrijs), dies at 73
1944 - Louis Capone, New York organized crime figure (b. 1896) (executed)
1944 - Emanuel Weiss, American hitman (b. 1906) (executed)
1944 - Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist (b. 1855)
1945 - Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
1945 - Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer (b. 1900)
1946 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886)
1948 - Antonin Artaud, French poet/actor (Napoleon), dies at 51
1950 - Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant (b. 1899)
1952 - Charles Scott Sherrington, English scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1953 - Sergei S Prokoviev, Russian composer (Peter & the wolf), dies at 61
1954 - Georg Gohler, composer, dies at 79
1954 - Noel Gay, [Richard Moxon Armitage], composer, dies at 55
1958 - Albert Kuyle, [Lou Kuitenbrouwer], writer (Jesus' Carpet), dies at 54
1959 - Maxey Long, American athlete (b. 1878)
1960 - Leonard Warren, US baritone, dies on stage at 48
1960 - Herbert O'Conor, 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland (b. 1896)
1962 - Cairine R Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at 77
1962 - George Mogridge, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1889)
1963 - William Carlos Williams, US physician/poet, dies at 79
1966 - Janis Medins, composer, dies at 75
1967 - Vladan Desnica, Croatian and Serbian writer (b. 1905)
1967 - Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1885)
1968 - Alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84
1969 - Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)
1973 - Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. 1907)
1974 - Adolph Gottlieb, US painter, dies at 71
1976 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
1977 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
1977 - Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925)
1977 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (b. 1887)
1978 - Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909)
1979 - Willi Unsoeld, American mountain climber (b. 1926)
1981 - Torin Thatcher, actor (Houdini, Isranbul, Lady Godiva), dies
1981 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1984 - Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer, dies at 79
1984 - Ernest Buckler, Canadian novelist (b. 1908)
1984 - Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897)
1984 - Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914)
1986 - Henri Knap, Dutch journalist/writer, dies at 75
1986 - Richard Manuel, rock vocalist/pianist (Band), commits suicide at 42