Today in History
4 March
Antonio Vivaldi
Jean-François Champollion (1790 - 1832)
1831
Ulysses Grant
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| 1152 Frederick I Barbarossa was elected king of Germany in succession to his uncle Conrad III. He later became a crusader and opponent of the pope. | ||
| 1193 Saladin, sultan of Egypt and Syria, died; his forces captured Jerusalem in 1187, ending its 88-year occupation by the Franks. | ||
| 1394 Henry the Navigator, Prince/sponsors Portuguese voyages of discovery was born | ||
| 1461 Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha | ||
| 1461 In the English Wars of the Roses, Edward of York took the English throne as Edward IV. |
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| 1492 Francesco de Layolle, composer was born | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1678 Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer, was born. Best known for "The Four Seasons," he wrote more than 230 violin concertos and 120 concertos for other solo instruments. | Antonio Vivaldi |
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| 1681 King Charles II granted William Penn by charter almost all of what is now Pennsylvania. | ||
| 1699 Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany | ||
| 1719 Aert Schouman, Dutch bird/portrait painter was born | ||
| 1741 English fleet under admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena | ||
| 1789 Pavel P Gagarin, Russ monarch was born | ||
| 1789 The first U.S. Congress convened in New York City until September 29; 28 senators and 65 representatives sat for the 13 states. | ||
| 1791 Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies) | ||
| 1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii | ||
| 1793 George Washington was inaugurated in Philadelphia for a second term as president of the United States. | ||
| 1793 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Neth |
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| 1797 John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of US | ||
| 1798 Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews | ||
| 1801 Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated as the third president of the United States; he was the first to be inaugurated in the new capital of Washington. | ||
| 1825 John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president | ||
| 1832 Jean-Francois Champollion, French historian and Egyptologist, died. | ||
| 1835 HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion | ||
| 1835 Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italy, astronomer (discovered canals of Mars) was born | ||
| 1837 City of Chicago incorporates | ||
| 1848 Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution | ||
| 1853 Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands | Léon Cogniet Jean-François Champollion (1790 - 1832) 1831 |
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| 1863 Territory of Idaho established | ||
| 1869 Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th president | ||
| 1875 Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar/interpreter was born | ||
| 1876 US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap | ||
| 1877 Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" was first performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. | ||
| 1880 NY Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S H Horgan | ||
| 1881 Holmes & Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet," 1st case together | ||
| 1881 South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire | ||
| 1885 Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premieres in London | ||
| 1890 In Scotland the Forth Bridge was opened by the prince of Wales. The bridge, more than one mile long with the track 157 feet above the water, cost almost 3 million pounds. | ||
| 1893 Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe | ||
| 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) | ||
| 1902 American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago | ||
| 1908 Collingwood Ohio primary school catches fire; 180 die |
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| 1913 Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated as the 28th U.S. president, only the second Democrat since the American Civil War. | ||
| 1917 Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) becomes 1st female member of U.S. Congress | ||
| 1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece | ||
| 1921 Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas | ||
| 1925 Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US | ||
| 1927 Some 25,000 diggers participated in a rush to stake their claims in new diamond fields at Grasfontein, South Africa. | ||
| 1930 Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated | ||
| 1930 Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman | ||
| 1933 Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament | ||
| 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as 32nd U.S. president and the first to be elected for a third and fourth term. | Ulysses Grant |
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| 1936 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany | ||
| 1941 Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler | ||
| 1941 A British naval raid on the German-occupied Lofoten Islands off Norway sank 11 German ships. | ||
| 1944 1st US bombing of Berlin | ||
| 1944 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy | ||
| 1945 Finland declares war on nazi-Germany | ||
| 1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister | ||
| 1949 Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel | ||
| 1955 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent | ||
| 1960 French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1964 U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution to appoint a mediator and establish a U.N. peace-keeping force in Cyprus. | ||
| 1966 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die | ||
| 1966 North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by BP | ||
| 1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched | ||
| 1970 The French submarine Eurydice sank off the coast of Toulon. All 57 aboard died | ||
| 1971 Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau secretly married Margaret Sinclair. | ||
| 1972 Last train run between Penrith to Keswick UK | ||
| 1972 Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty | ||
| 1974 In Britain, Prime Minister Edward Heath resigned and Labour leader Harold Wilson formed a new government. | ||
| 1975 Actor Charlie Chaplin was knighted at Buckingham Palace. | ||
| 1976 In Northern Ireland, the Ulster Convention was formally dissolved and Northern Ireland came under direct rule from London. | ||
| 1977 Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain | ||
| 1977 More than 1,570 people were killed in Romania by an earthquake which registered 7.2 on the Richter scale; 35,000 families were made homeless. | ||
| 1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue | ||
| 1979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings | ||
| 1980 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy | ||
| 1980 Rhodesian Gov. Lord Soames invited Robert Mugabe to form a government after his ZANU-PF party won a decisive election victory. | ||
| 1982 NASA launches Intelsat V | ||
| 1985 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA | ||
| 1989 Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline | ||
| 1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike | ||
| 1990 20th Easter Seal Telethon | ||
| 1990 President Lennox Sebe was ousted in a military coup in the South African homeland of Ciskei. | ||
| 1991 Bank of Credit & Commerce International divests itself of 1st American Bank | ||
| 1991 Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW | ||
| 1991 Coup leader Idriss Deby was sworn in as Chad's new president. | ||
| 1991 The Soviet parliament ratified a six-nation treaty, setting the legal seal on German unification after two years of revolutionary change in central Europe. | ||
| 1991 Miners in the two largest Soviet coalfields went on strike to support demands for the resignation of President Mikhail Gorbachev and for pay raises. | ||
| 1991 Crown Prince Sheikh Saad al-Abdulla al-Sabah became the first senior member of the Kuwaiti ruling family to return to the homeland liberated from Iraqi occupation. | ||
| 1994 Four Muslim fundamentalists were found guilty of bombing the landmark World Trade Center in New York. | ||
| 1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit | ||
| 1994 Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi and white separatist Constand Viljoen signed up at the last moment to contest South Africa's multiracial elections. | ||
| 1996 A Muslim suicide bomber killed 13 people and wounded 100, including children, outside a crowded Tel Aviv shopping mall. | ||
| 1997 President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research | ||
| 1997 Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia) | ||
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