On this day in History - Mar. 04

• com303 or 304 - Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
• 1152 - Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
• 1193 - Saladin [Salah al-Din Yusuf Ibn Ayyub] dies in Damasco (b. 1138). Muslim leader, who recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders.
• 1394 - Nasce, no Porto, o Infante D. Henrique. Príncipe português e impulsionador dos Descobrimentos († 1460) / Prince Henry the Navigator was born (d. 1460). Portuguese explorer (d. 1460).
• 1461 - Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
• 1492 - Franceso de Layolle was born in Florence (d. 1540). Italian composer.
• 1493 - Cristóbal Colón, de vuelta de su primer viaje a América, llega a Lisboa, donde es recibido por el rey de Portugal.
• 1496 - Sigismund of Austria dies. Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
• 1570 - King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students.
• 1604 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini dies (b. 1539). Italian theologian.
• 1611 - George Abbot is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1615 - Hans von Aachen dies (b. 1552). German painter.
• 1619 - Anne of Denmark dies (b. 1547). Consort of James I of England.
• 1621 - Jakarta, Java is renamed Batavia.
• 1634 - Samuel Cole opens the first tavern in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1665 - English king Charles II declares war on The Netherlands which marked the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
• 1675 - John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal of England.
• 1678 - Antonio (Lucio) Vivaldi was born in Veneza (d. 1741). Italian composer (Four Seasons) .
• 1681 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
• 1699 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck, Germany.
• 1707 - O Ato da União agrupa os reinos da Inglaterra e Escócia no Reino da Grã-Bretanha.
• 1714 - English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena.
• 1768 - August Friedrich Wilhelm Holtzhausen was born (d. 1827). Engineer.
• 1774 - First sighting of Orion Nebula by William Herschel.
• 1777 - Portugal: O Marquês de Pombal foi destituído de todos os seus cargos e desterrado.
• 1784 - Agustina de Aragón [Agustina Zaragoza Domenech] was born in Barcelona (d. 19 May 1854).
• 1789 - In New York City, the first U.S. Congress meets and declares the new Constitution of the United States is in effect.
• 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- Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state.
• 1793 - French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands.
• 1793 - Karl Lachmann was born (d. 1851). German philologist.
• 1797 - John Adams inaugurated as 2nd President of US .
• 1801 - Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the USA, becomes the first US president inaugurated in Washington, DC.
• 1804 - The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia).
• 1804 - The British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) was founded at a large interdenominational meeting in London.
• 1811 - Mariano Moreno dies. Argentine statesman and writer.
• 1824 - The 'National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck' was founded in Britain, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858.
• 1825 - John Quincy Adams inaugurated as 6th President .
• 1826 - El Congreso argentino acuerda que Buenos Aires sea la capital de la República.
• 1829 - Unruly crowd mobs White House during the President Jackson inaugural ball.
• 1830 - Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi, premieres in Venice.
• 1832 - Jean-François Champollion dies. Egyptologist
• 1837 - Chicago, Illinois is granted a city charter by Illinois.
• 1841 - Inauguration of William Henry Harrison as 9th President of the USA. Harrison died exactly one month into his term — the briefest presidency in the history of the office - and was the first president to die in office.
• 1848 - Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
• 1849 - David Rice Atchison becomes President of the United States for one day (it is believed by some) due to a gap between the expiration of James K. Polk's term and the swearing-in of Zachary Taylor.
• 1852 - Nikolay (Vasilyevich) Gogol, writer, dies (b. 31 March 1809 in Sorochintsy, near Poltava, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now in Ukraine]). Ukrainian-born Russian humorist, dramatist, and novelist, whose novel Myortvye dushi (Dead Souls) and whose short story “Shinel” (“The Overcoat”) are considered the foundations of the great 19th-century tradition of Russian realism.
• 1853 - Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands.
• 1858 - Matthew Perry dies (b. 1794) .
• 1868 - Jesse Chisholm dies. Old West pioneer .
• 1853 - Reconocimiento de la independencia de Paraguay por Francia, Gran Bretaña y Estados Unidos.
• 1857 - El demócrata James Buchanam asume la presidencia de Estados Unidos.
• 1857 - Terminou a guerra anglo-persa.
• 1858 - Matthew Perry dies (b. 1794). U.S. naval officer.
• 1861 - España acepta el ofrecimiento de la que había sido colonia de Santo Domingo para reincorporarse a la Monarquía.
• 1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th President of the United States
• 1861 - The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.
• 1863 - Territory of Idaho established.
• 1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Thompson's Station in Tennessee.
• 1868 - Jesse Chisholm dies (b. 1805). American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail.
• 1869 - Eugenio de Castro e Almeida was born in Coimbra (d. 1944). Portuguese poet and writer / Nasce, em Coimbra Eugenio de Castro e Almeida (m. 17 Ago 1944). Poeta e escritor português (Oaristos).
• 1875 - Enrique Rodríguez Larreta was born. Argentine writer and politician.
• 1876 - US Congress ends "impeachment" of Minister of War Belknap.
• 1876 - Léon-Paul Fargue was born (d. 1947). Poet.
• 1877 - Emile Berliner invents the microphone.
• 1877 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake debuts.
• 1877 - Garrett Morgan was born (d. 1963). Inventor.
• 1879 - Josip Murn - Aleksandrov was born (d. 1901). Slovene poet.
• 1880 - New York Daily Graphic publishes the first half-tone engraving, by S H Horgan.
• 1881 - A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story, begins.
• 1881 - South African President Kruger accepts ceasefire.
• 1881 - James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th president .
• 1885 - Guatemala decide anexionarse El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica y Honduras y constituir una República Federal.
• 1885 - Gilbert & Sullivan's opera The Mikado premieres in London.
• 1887 - Test run of first Daimler car in Esslingen and Cannstatt, Germany.
• 1888 - Knute Rockne was born (d. 1931). American football star, coach.
• 1890 - The Prince of Wales, HRH Prince Albert Edward (later to become King Edward VII), eldest son of and heir apparent to Queen Victoria, opens the 1,710 foot Forth Bridge in Scotland.
• 1894 - Great fire in Shanghai. Over 1,000 buildings are destroyed.
• 1895 - Premiere of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony in Berlin.
• 1897 - Lefty O'Doul was born (d. 1969). Baseball star, restaurateur.
• 1897 - Moreira César dies (b. 7 Jul 1850). Brazilian militar
• 1894 - Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed .
• 1901 - Publicación del primer número del periódico "La Discusión", de La Habana, de tendencia nacionalista.
• 1901 - President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president .
• 1901 - Charles Goren was born. Bridge expert .
• 1902 - In Chicago, Illinois, the American Automobile Association is established.
• 1903 - Luis Carrero Blanco was born (d. 1973). Spanish statesman.
• 1904 - Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat toward Manchuria followed by 100,000 Japanese troops.
• 1905 - Gerhart Hauptmann's 'Elga' premieres in Berlin.
• 1906 - El tifus causa 4.000 muertos en México.
• 1908 - Collingwood Ohio Primary School catches fire; 180 die.
• 1909 - Harry Helmsley was born (d. 1997). Real estate entrepreneur.
• 1910 - Nascimento de Tancredo Neves (Tancredo de Almeida Neves), 43° Presidente do Brasil (1985/1990, embora não empossado), em São João Del Rei-MG. Faleceu vitimado por doença, em circunstâncias bastante estranhas, um dia antes de sua posse.
• 1911 - Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes the first socialist congressman in US.
• 1911 - Fialho de Almeida dies (b. 7 May 1857). Portuguese writer. / Morreu, na vila de Cuba, o escritor português Fialho de Almeida , nascido em 7 de Maio de 1857 em Vila de Frades, no Baixo Alentejo. Da sua obra fazem parte "Os Gatos" , "Os Contos", "A cidade do Vício", "O País das Uvas".
• 1913 - The United States Department of Commerce and United States Department of Labor are established by splitting the duties of the 10-year-old Dept. of Commerce and Labor.
• 1913 - First US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed.
• 1913 - John Garfield was born (d. 21 May1952) . Actor (Destination Tokyo, Gentlemmen's Agreement, The Postman Always Rings Twice)
• 1914 - Éxito médico en Francia: separación de dos hermanas siamesas .
• 1916 - Hans Eysenck was born (d. 1997). Psychologist.
• 1917 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
• 1921 - Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas.
• 1923 - Lenin's last article about Red bureaucracy was published in Pravda.
• 1924 - The song 'Happy Birthday To You' is published by Claydon Sunny.
• 1925 - Nascimento de Inezita Barroso (Inês Madalena Aranha de Lima), cantora da MPB, em São Paulo-SP.
• 1925 - Paul Mauriat was born. French musician
• 1926 - Iñigo Sanz was born, professor of Law .
• 1927 - Ira Remsen dies (b. 10 Feb 1846). American scientist.
• 1928 - Samuel Adler was born in Manheim. American composer .
• 1928 - Se inaugura el estadio del club Independiente, el primero de cemento en Argentina.
• 1928 - Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente was born. Naturalist.
• 1929 - Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st President .
• 1929 - Bernard Haitink was born. Dutch conductor.
• 1931 - O Vice-Rei britânico da Índia põe fim ao monopólio estatal do sal com o objetivo de evitar a continuação de um movimento de desobediência civil liderado por Gandhi.
• 1932 - Miriam Makeba was born in Johannesburg South Africa, singer (Grammy 1965) .
• 1933 - Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, first female member of the United States Cabinet.
• 1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlines his "New Deal" in his inauguration speech.
• 1933 - The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure - Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates authoritarian rule by decree (see Austrofascism)
• 1934 - Janez Strnad was born. Slovenian physicist.
• 1936 - First flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany.
• 1936 - Jim Clark was born (d. 1968). Scotish racing driver.
• 1937 - George Jessel, is the host in the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, for the 9th Annual Academy Awards show. The awards for the films of 1936 went : Outstanding Production/Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld (from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer); Best Director: Frank Capra for Mr. Deeds Goes To Town; Actor: Paul Muni (The Story Of Louis Pasteur); Actor in a Supporting Role: Walter Brennan (Come and Get It); Best Actress: Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld); Actress in a Supporting Role: Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse); Best Song: Dorothy Fields & Jerome Kern for The Way You Look Tonight from the movie, Swing Time.
• 1938 - Don Perkins was born. American football player .
• 1939 - José A. Muguerza dies in Monterrey. Mexican businessman and philantroper.
• 1941 - Great Britain launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II.
• 1941 - Ludwig Quidde dies. historiador y pacifista alemán, premio Nobel de la Paz en 1927.
• 1941 - Adrian Lyne was born. English director .
• 1942 - Charles C. Krulak, was born, 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps .
• 1943 - The 15th Academy Awards presentation drew Hollywood luminaries to the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles to celebrate the great work done during the year 1942. Everybody seemed to like Mrs. Miniver (from Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer) better than any other movie that year. That movie was so good that it won William Wyler the Best Director Oscar; Greer Garson the Best Actress statuette; Teresa Wright the Best Actress in a Supporting Role prize; Joseph Ruttenberg the Cinematography/black-and-white Oscar; and George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis the Writing/Screenplay award. James Cagney was presented the Best Actor Oscar for Yankee Doodle Dandy and Van Heflin was voted Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Johnny Eager. And one other award is worth mentioning: a guy named Irving Berlin picked up the Best Song Oscar for a little ditty he had written for the film, Holiday Inn: White Christmas.
• 1944 - In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing.
• 1944 - First US bombing of Berlin and Anti-Germany strikes in northern Italy.
• 1945 - In Britain, Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Army as a driver.
• 1945 - Finland declares war on nazi-Germany.
• 1946 - The Voice Of Frank Sinatra, the first Frank Sinatra album ever, is released by Columbia Records.
• 1947 - Jan Garbarek was born. Norwegian musician.
• 1948 - Acuerdo entre Argentina y Chile sobre la Antártida.
• 1949 - Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister.
• 1949 - Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel.
• 1950 - US Premiere of Walt Disney's animated film Cinderella.
• 1950 - Rick Perry, was born. Governor of Texas .
• 1951 - Kenny Dalglish was born. Scotish footballer (soccer) and football manager .
• 1951 - Chris Rea was born. British singer and musician.
• 1952 - Ernest Hemingway completes his short novel The Old Man and the Sea.
• 1952 - Umberto Tozzi was born. Italian singer.
• 1952 - Ronn Moss was born. American actor
• 1952 - Charles Scott Sherrington dies (b. ). Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1932
• 1953 - Emilio Estefan was born. Cuban percussionist.
• 1953 - Kay Lenz was born. Actress
• 1954 - Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston announces the first successful kidney transplant.
• 1954 - US warns Latin America against international communism.
• 1954 - Willie Thorne was born. English snooker player .
• 1955 - First radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent of America.
• 1958 - Patricia Heaton was born. Actress (Everybody Loves Raymond) .
• 1959 - US Pioneer IV misses Moon and becomes the second (US first) artificial planet.
• 1959 - Maxey Long dies. American athlete .
• 1960 - French freighter 'La Coubre' explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100. Fidel Castro blames the U.S.
• 1960 - Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz.
• 1960 - Mykelti Williamson was born. Actor .
• 1961 - Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary General of NATO.
• 1961 - Ray Mancini was born. Boxer .
• 1961 - Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary-General of NATO .
• 1962 - AEC announces that the first atomic power plant in Antarctica is in operation.
• 1962 - Friðrik Erlingsson was born. Iceland musician and writer.
• 1963 - Jason Newsted was born. Former bassist of Metallica.
• 1963 - In Paris six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle.
• 1963 - William Carlos Williams dies (b. 1883). Writer.
• 1965 - Gary Helms was born. Kickboxer.
• 1966 - North Sea Gas was first pumped ashore by BP (British Petroleum).
• 1966 - John Lennon says The Beatles are "more popular than Jesus" which sparks controversy in the United States.
• 1966 - Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, killing 64 people.
• 1966 - Kevin Johnson was born. Basketball player .
• 1966 - John Lennon says, "We (The Beatles) are more popular than Jesus" which sparks controversy in the United States.
• 1967 - Evan Dando was born. Musician.
• 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign.
• 1968 - Patsy Kensit was born. Actress .
• 1968 - Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title.
• 1970 - French submarine Eurydice explodes.
• 1972 - Last train run between Penrith to Keswick, UK.
• 1972 - Libya and USSR sign co-operation treaty.
• 1973 - 15th Grammy Awards: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
• 1974 - Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister following the resignation of his predecessor Edward Heath.
• 1974 - Inauguração da construção da Ponte Rio-Niterói (Brasil), com 12.9 quilómetros de extensão e vão central de 300 metros.
• 1974 - Gabriel, O Pensador ("the thinker") was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian rap musician.
• 1975 - Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of England. ~
• 1976 - The Maguire Seven were found guilty of the offence of possessing explosives and were subsequently jailed for 14 years.
• 1977 - The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
• 1977 - Anna Baitchik was born. Miss Russia-Universe (1997 )
• 1977 - Andrés Caicedo dies (b. 1951). Colombian writer.
• 1978 - Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue.
• 1979 - US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings.
• 1980 - Robert Mugabe ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe and forms Zimbabwe's first black government.
• 1982 - NASA launches Intelsat V.
• 1986 - First issue of Today newspaper in the UK.
• 1987 - Ding Junhui was born. Chinese snooker player .
• 1989 - Time, Inc. and Warner Communications announce plans for a merger forming Time-Warner.
• 1989 - Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43 meter) .
• 1989 - Six people die and 80 are injured, some of them seriously, in a train crash at Purley in Surrey, England.
• 1990 - Space Shuttle Program: STS-36 (Atlantis 6) US 65th manned space mission returns from space.
• 1991 - Bank of Credit & Commerce Internationall divests itself of First American Bank.
• 1993 - Authorities announce the capture of suspected World Trade Center bombing conspirator Mohammad Salameh.
• 1993 - Adelina Zendejas dies (b. 1909). Mexican journalist, writer and women rights activist.
• 1994 - Four terrorists are convicted for their roles in the World Trade Center bombing which killed six and injured more than a thousand.
• 1995 - Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec).
• 1995 - Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital.
• 1994 - John Candy dies (b. 1950). Comedian and actor.
• 1995 - George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker.
• 1995 - Michael Johnson runs world record 400 meter indoor (44.63 seconds) .
• 1995 - The World Summit on Social Development begins in Copenhagen.
• 1996 - A train carrying propane and sodium hydroxide derails in Weyauwega, Wisconsin and catches fire. 2,200 near the accident site are evacuated for 16 days.
• 1996 - Minnie Pearl dies. Country music performer .
• 1997 - United States President Bill Clinton bars federal funding for any research on human cloning.
• 1997 - In London, the match-fixing trial of footballers Bruce Grobbelar, John Fashanu and Hans Segers ends in deadlock with the jury failing to reach verdicts.
• 1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU).
• 1997 - Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia)
• 1998 - Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
• 1998 - Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
• 1998 - Government, naval and university computers running Windows NT across the United States crash as a result of a hacker. The crash affects computers running at MIT, Northwestern University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of California campuses at Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Diego.
• 1998 - O príncipe do Nepal, Dipendra, visitou a Alemanha .
• 1999 - Monica Lewinsky's book detailing her affair with Bill Clinton goes on sale in the United States.
• 1999 - In a military court, Captain Richard Ashby of the United States Marines is acquitted of the charge of reckless flying which resulted in the deaths of 20 skiers in the Italian Alps when his low-flying jet hit a gondola cable.
• 1999 - El director general de la UNESCO, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, y varios Premios Nóbel de la Paz presentan en París el "Manifiesto 2000", destinado a promover la paz en el mundo .
• 1999 - Harry Blackmun dies (b. 1908). Associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• 1999 - Karel van het Reve dies (b. 1921). Dutch writer.
• 2001 - Portugal: desastre com a queda de um autocarro de passageiros e alguns automóveis ao Rio Douro na sequência da queda da ponte Hintze Ribeiro, que ligava Entre-os-Rios e Castelo de Paiva. Cinquenta e nove pessoas morreram.
• 2001 - During the early hours a massive bomb located in a taxi explodes in front of BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to dissident Irish republicans.
• 2001 - Swiss referendum overwhelmingly rejects a proposal for immediate membership talks with the European Union.
• 2001 - Glenn Hughes dies. Leather dude of popular music group The Village People .
• 2001 - Harold Stassen dies (b. 1907). Politician.
• 2003 - Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn redebuts on Comedy Central .
• 2003 - Dschaba Iosseliani dies. Politician .
• 2003 - Celly Campello dies (b. 18 Jun 1942). Brazilian singer.
• 2004 - The files of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun are released to the public five years after his death.
• 2004 - FIFA reveals its list of 100 Greatest Living Footballers (otherwise known as the "FIFA 100") .
• 2004 - Fernando Lázaro Carreter dies. Spanish philologist.
• 2004 - The guilty verdict for Moroccan al-Qaeda suspect Mounir el Motassadeq's involvement in the September 11, 2001 attacks is overturned by the German appeals court, which orders a retrial.
• 2005 - The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of one passenger and injuring two more.
• 2005 - Carly Kirkwood begins her role as the new presenter of TV3 New Zealand's highly successful, late-night news show: Nightline.
• 2005 - United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by the HIV virus in the future without further action against the spread of the disease.