Historical Events of Today Tuesday, March 4, 2008.
Historical Events
Welcome to Today In History for Tuesday, March 4, 2008.
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1152 - Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king
1461 - Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha Edward IV recognized as king of England
1540 - Protestant count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife
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
1699 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany
1741 - English fleet under admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena
1774 - 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)
1789 - 1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps)
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)
1809 - Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes
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 Concepci¢n
1837 - City of Chicago incorporates
1837 - Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president
1837 - Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
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
1848 - Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution
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 - Pres Lincoln opens Govt Printing Office
1861 - Lincoln’s inaugurated as 16th pres; 1st time US has 5 former pres
1861 - Confederate States adopt “Stars and Bars” flag
1863 - Battle of Thompson’s Station, TN
1863 - Territory of Idaho established
1865 - President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as president
1865 - Confederate congress approves final design of “official flag”
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
1880 - NY Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S H Horgan
1881 - South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire
1881 - James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th president
1881 - Holmes and Watson begin “A Study in Scarlet,” 1st case together
1881 - California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
1883 - John Gordon Cashmans begins “Vicksburg Evening Post” in Mississippi
1885 - Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic pres since Civil War
1885 - Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera “Mikado,” premieres in London
1889 - Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president
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
1897 - William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US
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 primary school catches fire; 180 die
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 - Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president
1913 - NY Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda)
1913 - Gabriel Faur‚’s opera “P‚n‚lope,” premieres in Monte Carlo
1913 - Dept of Commerce and Labor split into separate departments
1913 - 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed
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)
1924 - “Happy Birthday To You” published by Claydon Sunny
1925 - Pres Coolidge’s inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
1925 - Swain’s Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US
1926 - De Geer govt in Netherlands takes office
1928 - “Bunion Run” race from LA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne
1929 - Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP
1929 - Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president
1930 - Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
1930 - Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
1931 - Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as W I win the Test
1931 - West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG
1933 - FDR inaugrated as 32nd pres, pledges to pull US out of Depression and says “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”
1933 - Noordwijk soccer team forms
1933 - Henderson, DeSylva and Brown’s “Strike Me Pink,” premieres in NYC
1933 - Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st US woman cabinet member
1933 - Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament
1934 - Easter Cross on Mt Davidson (SF) dedicated
1936 - 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
1941 - Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler
1941 - NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots
1941 - 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague
1943 - Transport nr 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 - Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister
1949 - Piet Van de Pol (Neth) becomes world champion billiard player
1949 - Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel
1954 - JE Wilkins, appointed 1st Black US sub-cabinet member
1955 - 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
1959 - US Pioneer IV misses Moon and becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet
1960 - French freighter “La Coubre” explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100
1960 - Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz
1961 - Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as sec-gen of NATO
1962 - AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
1964 - Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
1965 - David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2
1966 - Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die
1966 - John Lennon, says “We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus”
1966 - North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by BP
1967 - Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (US)
1967 - Men’s Fig Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT)
1967 - Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova and Protopopov (USSR)
1967 - Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler and Ford (GRB)
1968 - Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People’s Campaign
1968 - Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
1970 - NY Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
1970 - Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
1970 - French submarine “Eurydice” explodes
1971 - “City Command” kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey
1972 - Libya and USSR signs cooperation treaty
1972 - Last train run between Penrith to Keswick UK
1972 - Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5)
1973 - 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
1974 - David Hares’ “Knuckle,” premieres in London
1974 - Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier
1976 - John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
1976 - SF Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth
1977 - Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541
1977 - Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain
1977 - 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, NM
1978 - Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
1979 - US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter’s rings
1979 - Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1979 - 200th episode of “All in the Family”
1979 - “Grand Tour” closes at Palace Theater NYC after 61 performances
1980 - 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1980 - Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe
1982 - 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy and D Potvin
1982 - NASA launches Intelsat V
1984 - Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
1984 - Pee Wee Reese and Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball’s Hall of Fame
1985 - War veterans returned to the “Bridge over the River Kwai”
1985 - Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA
1985 - STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled
1986 - Border completes twin Test tons (140 and 114*) v NZ
1989 - Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
1989 - Eastern Airlines machinists strike
1989 - Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)
1990 - US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space
1990 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Women’s Kemper Golf Open
1990 - 20th Easter Seal Telethon
1991 - Bank of Credit and Commerce Intl divests itself of 1st American Bank
1991 - Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British and 1 Italian POW
1993 - Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion
1993 - “Goodbye Girl” opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 188 performances
1994 - 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
1994 - Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit
1995 - Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1
1995 - Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec)
1995 - George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker
1995 - Blind teenage boy receives a ‘Bionic Eye’ at a Washington Hospital
1995 - 1st NYC Mayor Trophy’s High school track meet in 19 years
1997 - Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU)
1997 - President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research
1997 - Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia)
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