Historical Events on March 4

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• 306 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

• 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

• 1570 King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students as part of his attempted suppression of Protestantism
• 1590 Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda
• 1611 George Abbot appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1621 Jacarta, Java, renamed Batavia

• 1653 Dutch commodore Johan van Galen leads a Dutch fleet to victory against an English naval force at the Battle of Leghorn (Livorno) during the Anglo Dutch wars, later dies from his wounds on March 23

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

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

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

• 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 Andrew Jackson's inaugural ball
• 1830 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" premieres at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy
• 1835 HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion (Chile)
• 1837 Chicago becomes incorporated as a city

• 1837 Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American

• 1848 Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
• 1848 Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution

• 1853 Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands
• 1853 William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US vice-president

• 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, Tennessee
• 1863 Territory of Idaho established

• 1865 US Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag"

• 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 Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson begin their 1st case together in "A Study in Scarlet"

• 1882 Britain's first electric trams run in East London

• 1893 Francis Dhanis' Belgian Congo Free State 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

• 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 Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction US congressmen, ends
• 1901 William McKinley inaugurated for his 2nd term as US president; Theodore Roosevelt serves as Vice President; his inaugural address is the first to be published in advance
• 1902 American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
• 1903 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal HC beats Winnipeg Victorias, 4-1 for a 2-1 challenge series victory

• 1908 Fire at Lakeview Elementary School in Collinwood, Ohio kills 172 students and 2 teachers: boiler room blaze trapped many victims in the building, prompting changes in school design and procedures nationwide [1]

• 1909 US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds

• 1910 Avalanche at Bear Creek in Rogers Pass, British Columbia, kills 58 railway line workers - Canada's worst avalanche disaster [1]
• 1911 Victor Berger (Wisc) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US
• 1913 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed
• 1913 Gabriel Faure's opera "Pénélope", based on Homer's "The Odyssey", premieres at the Salle Garnie, in Monte Carlo, Monaco
• 1913 NY Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda)
• 1913 US Department of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments

• 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

• 1924 The song "Happy Birthday To You" is published by Claydon Sunny
• 1925 Swain's Island, a remote coral atoll, is annexed by the United States and incorporated into American Samoa
• 1925 US President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
• 1926 De Geer government in Netherlands takes office

• 1928 "Bunion Run" race from LA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne

• 1929 National Revolutionary Party founded in Mexico by Plutarco Elías Calles (will go on to hold power until 2000)

• 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 Engelbert 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
• 1934 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson (San Francisco) dedicated

• 1941 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague
• 1941 Chicago Black Hawks goaltender Sam LoPresti faces NHL record 83 shots in a 3-2 loss to the Bruins in Boston

• 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 of the Netherlands crowned world champion in billiards
• 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 Gold Coast officially changes its name to Ghana ahead of its independence
• 1957 The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
• 1959 NASA's scientific spacecraft Pioneer 4 misses moon, enters heliocentric orbit, and becomes 2nd (US 1st) earth-launched 'artificial planet' [1]
• 1960 French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100
• 1961 Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary-General of NATO
• 1962 AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
• 1964 Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering

• 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)

• 1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
• 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 Abercorn Restaurant bombing: a bomb explodes in a crowded restaurant in Belfast, killing two civilians and wounding 130
• 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 Educational series "The Letter People" debuts on KETC-TV (PBS) in St. Louis, Missouri

• 1976 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
• 1976 MLB's San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth
• 1977 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico
• 1977 Earthquake in Romania kills 1,541

• 1977 West Indian cricket fast bowler Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan in 2nd Test win at Port-of-Spain; best Test figures by a pace bowler from the West Indies
• 1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue

• 1979 200th episode of "All in the Family"

• 1979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings

• 1982 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy & D Potvin
• 1982 Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada
• 1982 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 504
• 1983 U.S. Public Health Service's publishes its guidelines for blood donors and AIDS

• 1985 STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida); mission cancelled
• 1985 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by US Environment Protection Agency
• 1985 WWII veterans return to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"

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