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March 4, 1997 Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks March 4, 1997 Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU) March 4, 1997 President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research March 4, 1997 Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia) March 4, 1995 1st New York City Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years March 4, 1995 Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital March 4, 1995 George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker March 4, 1995 Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec) March 4, 1995 Replacement New York Yankees beat New York Mets 2-1 March 4, 1994 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center March 4, 1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit March 4, 1993 "Goodbye Girl" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 188 performances March 4, 1993 Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion March 4, 1991 Bank of Credit and Commerce International divests itself of 1st American Bank March 4, 1991 Iraq releases 6 U.S., 3 British and 1 Italian POW March 4, 1990 20th Easter Seal Telethon March 4, 1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open March 4, 1990 U.S. 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space March 4, 1989 Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline March 4, 1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike March 4, 1989 Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m) March 4, 1986 Border completes twin Test tons (140 and 114*) vs. NZ March 4, 1985 STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled March 4, 1985 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA March 4, 1985 War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai" March 4, 1984 Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational March 4, 1984 Pee Wee Reese and Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame March 4, 1982 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy and D Potvin March 4, 1982 NASA launches Intelsat V March 4, 1980 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy March 4, 1980 Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe March 4, 1979 "Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 61 performances March 4, 1979 200th episode of "All in the Family" March 4, 1979 Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic March 4, 1979 U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings March 4, 1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue March 4, 1977 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico March 4, 1977 Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain March 4, 1977 Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541 March 4, 1976 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio March 4, 1976 San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth March 4, 1974 David Hares' "Knuckle," premieres in London March 4, 1974 Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier March 4, 1973 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America March 4, 1972 Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5) March 4, 1972 Last train run between Penrith to Keswick United Kingdom March 4, 1972 Libya and U.S.S.R. signs cooperation treaty March 4, 1971 "City Command" kidnaps 4 U.S. military men at Ankara, Turkey March 4, 1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes March 4, 1970 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game March 4, 1970 New York Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out March 4, 1968 Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title March 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign March 4, 1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched March 4, 1967 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler and Ford (GRB) March 4, 1967 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova and Protopopov (U.S.S.R.) March 4, 1967 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT) March 4, 1967 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (U.S.) March 4, 1966 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die March 4, 1966 John Lennon, says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus" March 4, 1966 North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by British Petroleum March 4, 1965 David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2 March 4, 1964 Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering March 4, 1962 AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation March 4, 1961 Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as sec-gen of NATO March 4, 1960 French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 March 4, 1960 Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz March 4, 1959 U.S. Pioneer IV misses Moon and becomes 2nd (U.S. 1st) artificial planet March 4, 1955 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent March 4, 1954 J. E. Wilkins, appointed 1st Black U.S. sub-cabinet member March 4, 1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister March 4, 1949 Piet Van de Pol (Neth) becomes world champion billiard player March 4, 1949 Security Council of United Nations recommends membership for Israel March 4, 1947 WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting March 4, 1945 Finland declares war on nazi-Germany March 4, 1944 1st U.S. bombing of Berlin March 4, 1944 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy March 4, 1943 Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor March 4, 1941 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague March 4, 1941 NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots March 4, 1941 Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler March 4, 1936 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany March 4, 1934 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson (SF) dedicated March 4, 1933 Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament March 4, 1933 Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st U.S. woman cabinet member March 4, 1933 Henderson, DeSylva and Brown's "Strike Me Pink," premieres in New York City March 4, 1933 Noordwijk soccer team forms March 4, 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugrated as 32nd president, pledges to pull U.S. out of Depression and says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." March 4, 1931 Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as W I win the Test March 4, 1931 West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG March 4, 1930 Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated March 4, 1930 Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman March 4, 1929 Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP March 4, 1929 Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president March 4, 1928 "Bunion Run" race from Los Angeles to New York City begins; It is won by Andy Payne March 4, 1926 De Geer government in Netherlands takes office March 4, 1925 President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations March 4, 1925 Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by U.S. March 4, 1924 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny March 4, 1923 Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy) March 4, 1921 Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas March 4, 1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece March 4, 1918 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921) March 4, 1917 Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) becomes 1st female member of Congress March 4, 1913 1st U.S. law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed March 4, 1913 Department of Commerce and Labor split into separate departments March 4, 1913 Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope," premieres in Monte Carlo March 4, 1913 New York Yankees are 1st to train outside U.S. (Bermuda) March 4, 1913 Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president March 4, 1911 Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes 1st socialist congressman in U.S. March 4, 1909 President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm March 4, 1909 U.S. prohibits interstate transportation of game birds March 4, 1908 Collingwood Ohio primary school catches fire; 180 die March 4, 1905 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Elga," premieres in Berlin March 4, 1902 American Automobile Association, AAA, founded in Chicago March 4, 1901 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer) March 4, 1901 President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president March 4, 1901 Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends March 4, 1897 William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US March 4, 1895 Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin March 4, 1894 Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed March 4, 1893 Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe March 4, 1893 Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th U.S. president (2nd term) March 4, 1889 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president March 4, 1885 Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premieres in London March 4, 1885 Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War March 4, 1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi March 4, 1881 California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation March 4, 1881 Holmes and Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet," 1st case together March 4, 1881 James A. Garfield inaugurated as 20th president March 4, 1881 South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire March 4, 1880 New York Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S. H. Horgan March 4, 1877 Tsjaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer," premieres in Moscow March 4, 1876 U.S. Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap March 4, 1869 Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th president March 4, 1865 Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag" March 4, 1865 President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as president March 4, 1863 Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee March 4, 1863 Territory of Idaho established March 4, 1861 Confederate States adopt "Stars and Bars" flag March 4, 1861 Lincoln's inaugurated as 16th president March 4, 1861 President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office March 4, 1853 Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands March 4, 1853 William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th U.S. VP March 4, 1849 U.S. had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Sen David Atchison (President pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd March 4, 1848 Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution March 4, 1845 James K. Polk inaugrated at 11th president March 4, 1841 Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance," premieres in London March 4, 1841 Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison March 4, 1837 City of Chicago incorporates March 4, 1837 Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president March 4, 1837 Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American March 4, 1835 HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion March 4, 1830 V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," premieres in Venice March 4, 1829 Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president March 4, 1829 Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball March 4, 1826 1st U.S. Railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachsetts March 4, 1825 John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president March 4, 1809 Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes March 4, 1801 Thomas Jefferson is the 1st president inaugurated in Washington D.C. March 4, 1798 Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews March 4, 1797 John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of U.S. March 4, 1793 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Netherlands March 4, 1793 Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words) March 4, 1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii March 4, 1791 1st Jewish member of U.S. Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office March 4, 1791 President Washington calls the U.S. Senate into its 1st special session March 4, 1791 Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies) March 4, 1789 1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps) March 4, 1774 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel) March 4, 1741 English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena March 4, 1699 Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany March 4, 1681 King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn March 4, 1675 John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England March 4, 1665 English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands March 4, 1621 Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia March 4, 1611 George Abbot appointed archbishop of Canterbury March 4, 1590 Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda March 4, 1570 King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students March 4, 1540 Protestant count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife March 4, 1461 Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha Edward IV recognized as king of England March 4, 1152 Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king |