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04 Mar 1215
King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III.
04 Mar 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
04 Mar 1386
Wadysaw II Jagieo (Jogaila) crowned King of Poland
04 Mar 1492
King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England.
04 Mar 1611
George Abbot appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
04 Mar 1675
John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England
04 Mar 1741
British fleet under Rear Admiral of the Blue Sir Chaloner Ogle reaches Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)
04 Mar 1776
The American War of Independence The Americans capture Dorchester Heights dominating the port of Boston Massachusetts.
04 Mar 1789
US House of Representatives 1st full meeting NYC F Muhlenberg 1st speaker
04 Mar 1790
France is divided into 83 dpartements which cut across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.
04 Mar 1791
First Jewish member of US Congress Israel Jacobs (PA) takes office
04 Mar 1791
President Washington calls the US Senate into its first special session
04 Mar 1791
Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
04 Mar 1793
French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Netherlands
04 Mar 1793
Washingtons 2nd inauguration as US President shortest speech (133 words)
04 Mar 1798
Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews
04 Mar 1804
The Battle of Vinegar Hill colony of New South Wales (Australia) when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Irelands Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colonys only significant convict uprising.
04 Mar 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.
04 Mar 1826
1st US railroad chartered Granite Railway in Quincy Massachusetts
04 Mar 1829
Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball
04 Mar 1830
Vincenzo Bellinis opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi premieres in Venice
04 Mar 1837
Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
04 Mar 1841
Dion Boucicaults London Assurance premieres in London
04 Mar 1846
8th Grand National William Taylor aboard Pioneer wins
04 Mar 1848
Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno dItalia
04 Mar 1849
US possibly had no president Polks term ends on a Sunday Taylor couldnt be sworn-in Senator David Atchison (pres pro tem) may technically have assumed the office
04 Mar 1853
Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands
04 Mar 1853
William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US VP
04 Mar 1857
19th Grand National Charlie Boyce aboard Emigrant wins
04 Mar 1861
Confederate States adopt Stars & Bars flag (US Civil War)
04 Mar 1861
US President Abraham Lincoln opens Government Printing Office
04 Mar 1865
Confederate congress approves final design of official flag
04 Mar 1865
Abraham Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as US president
04 Mar 1868
30th Grand National Mr George Ede aboard The Lamb IRE wins
04 Mar 1876
US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap
04 Mar 1877
Tchaikovskis incomplete ballet Zwanenmeer premieres in Moscow
04 Mar 1880
NY Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving by S H Horgan
04 Mar 1881
California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
04 Mar 1881
Holmes & Watson begin A Study in Scarlet 1st case together
04 Mar 1881
South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire
04 Mar 1882
Britains first electric trams run in East London.
04 Mar 1890
The longest bridge in the Great Britain the Forth Bridge (railway) (1710 ft) in Scotland is opened by the Prince of Wales who later became King Edward VII.
04 Mar 1893
Francis Dhanis army attacks the Lualaba occupies Nyangwe
04 Mar 1893
Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th US President (2nd term)
04 Mar 1894
Great fire in Shanghai over 1000 buildings destroyed
04 Mar 1895
Gustav Mahlers 2nd Symphony premieres in Berlin
04 Mar 1899
Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown Queensland with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.
04 Mar 1901
1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-National Intelligencer)
04 Mar 1901
William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as US president Theodore Roosevelt serves as Vice President
04 Mar 1901
Term of George H White last of post-Reconstruction congressmen ends
04 Mar 1902
American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
04 Mar 1908
Primary school catches fire in Collingwood Ohio (180 killed)
04 Mar 1909
US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
04 Mar 1911
Victor Berger (Wisc) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US
04 Mar 1913
1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed
04 Mar 1913
US Department of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments
04 Mar 1913
Gabriel Faures opera Penelope premieres in Monte Carlo
04 Mar 1913
NY Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda)
04 Mar 1918
Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)
04 Mar 1918
First recorded case of Spanish flu at Funston Army Camp Kanas start of worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million
04 Mar 1924
Happy Birthday To You published by Claydon Sunny
04 Mar 1925
US President Coolidges inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
04 Mar 1925
Swains Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US
04 Mar 1926
De Geer government in Netherlands takes office
04 Mar 1928
Bunion Run race from LA to NYC begins It is won by Andy Payne
04 Mar 1929
Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP
04 Mar 1930
Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
04 Mar 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.
04 Mar 1931
West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time by 30 runs at SCG
04 Mar 1933
Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves Austrian parliament
04 Mar 1933
Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor 1st female member of the US Cabinet
04 Mar 1933
Henderson DeSylva & Browns Strike Me Pink premieres in NYC
04 Mar 1933
Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada
04 Mar 1934
Easter Cross on Mt Davidson (San Francisco) dedicated
04 Mar 1941
18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague
04 Mar 1941
Chicago Black Hawks goaltender Sam LoPresti faces NHL record 83 shots in a 3-2 loss to the Bruins in Boston
04 Mar 1941
The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands during World War II.
04 Mar 1943
Transport 50 departs with French Jews to MaidanekSobibor
04 Mar 1947
WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
04 Mar 1949
Piet Van de Pol (Neth) becomes world champion billiard player
04 Mar 1949
Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel
04 Mar 1954
James E. Wilkins appointed 1st black US sub-cabinet member
04 Mar 1954
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston Massachusetts announces the first successful kidney transplant.
04 Mar 1955
1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
04 Mar 1957
The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced replacing the S&P 90.
04 Mar 1959
US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet
04 Mar 1960
French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana Cuba killing 100
04 Mar 1961
Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary-General of NATO
04 Mar 1961
8th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament Wake Forest beats Duke 96-81
04 Mar 1962
AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
04 Mar 1965
David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2
04 Mar 1966
Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo 64 die
04 Mar 1967
Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler & Ford (GRB)
04 Mar 1967
Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova & Protopopov (USSR)
04 Mar 1967
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT)
04 Mar 1967
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (US)
04 Mar 1968
Italian boxer Nino Benvenuti regains world middleweight title with a 15-round points decision over American champion Emile Griffith at Madison Square Garden NY last of famous trilogy of fights
04 Mar 1969
London East End gang bosses twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are found guilty of murder. Both will die in captivity.
04 Mar 1970
French submarine Eurydice explodes off Cape Camarat in the Mediterranean all 57 crew lost
04 Mar 1970
Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100 pts per game
04 Mar 1970
NY Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
04 Mar 1971
City Command kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara Turkey
04 Mar 1972
Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (118.5)
04 Mar 1972
Abercorn Restaurant bombing a bomb explodes in a crowded restaurant in Belfast killing two civilians and wounding 130
04 Mar 1973
15th Grammy Awards 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face America
04 Mar 1976
John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo Ohio
04 Mar 1976
MLBs San Francisco Giants are bought for 8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth
04 Mar 1977
1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped to Los Alamos Laboratories NM
04 Mar 1977
Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain
04 Mar 1978
Chicago Daily News founded in 1875 publishes last issue
04 Mar 1978
25th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament Duke beats Wake Forest 85-77
04 Mar 1979
Grand Tour closes at Palace Theater NYC after 61 performances
04 Mar 1979
The Ordeal of Patty Hearst television movie directed by Paul Wendkos premieres on CBS
04 Mar 1982
2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy & D Potvin
04 Mar 1983
U.S. Public Health Services publishes its guidelines for blood donors and AIDS
04 Mar 1984
Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseballs Hall of Fame
04 Mar 1985
STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB mission cancelled
04 Mar 1985
WWII veterans returned to the Bridge over the River Kwai
04 Mar 1986
Border completes twin Test tons (140 & 114) v NZ
04 Mar 1846
8th Grand National William Taylor aboard outsider Pioneer wins by 3 lengths from Culverthorpe
04 Mar 1857
19th Grand National Charlie Boyce wins aboard Emigrant at 101
04 Mar 1868
30th Grand National George Ede victorious aboard Irish 91 shot The Lamb horse wins second GN in 1871
04 Mar 1903
Stanley Cup Montreal Arena Westmount Quebec Montreal HC beats Winnipeg Victorias 4-1 for a 2-1 challenge series victory
04 Mar 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
04 Mar 1934
Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson (San Francisco) dedicated
04 Mar 1789
US House of Representatives 1st full meeting NYC Fx. Muhlenberg 1st speaker
04 Mar 1829
Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Andrew Jacksons inaugural ball
04 Mar 1835
HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion (Chile)
04 Mar 1853
William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US vice-president
04 Mar 1865
US Confederate congress approves final design of official flag
04 Mar 1880
NY Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving by S. H. Horgan
04 Mar 1881
Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson begin their 1st case together in A Study in Scarlet
04 Mar 1893
Francis Dhanis Belgian Congo Free State army attacks the Lualaba occupies Nyangwe
04 Mar 1901
Term of George H. White last of post-Reconstruction US congressmen ends
04 Mar 1929
Charles Curtis American politician (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP
04 Mar 1977
1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped to Los Alamos Laboratories New Mexico
04 Mar 1977
Roger Sessions 6th Symphony premieres (in fully completed form) in New York City with Jos Serebrier conducting the Juilliard Orchestra
04 Mar 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
04 Mar 1830
Vincenzo Bellinis opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi premieres at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice Italy
04 Mar 1913
Gabriel Faures opera Pnlope based on Homers The Odyssey premieres at the Salle Garnie in Monte Carlo Monaco
04 Mar 1929
National Revolutionary Party founded in Mexico by Plutarco Elas Calles (will go on to hold power until 2000)
04 Mar 1957
Gold Coast officially changes its name to Ghana ahead of its independence
04 Mar 1964
Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
04 Mar 1974
Educational series The Letter People debuts on KETC-TV (PBS) in St. Louis Missouri
04 Mar 1570
King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students as part of his attempted suppression of Protestantism
04 Mar 1699
Jews are expelled from residing in Lbeck Germany
04 Mar 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]
04 Mar 1910
Avalanche at Bear Creek in Rogers Pass British Columbia kills 58 railway line workers - Canadas worst avalanche disaster [1]
04 Mar 1925
Swains Island a remote coral atoll is annexed by the United States and incorporated into American Samoa
04 Mar 1933
Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss dissolves Austrian parliament
04 Mar 1789
US House of Representatives 1st full meeting held at Federal Hall New York City. Frederick Muhlenberg is elected itss 1st speaker.
04 Mar 1793
George Washingtons 2nd inauguration as US President at the Senate Chamber of Congress Hall Philadelphia. The shortest inaugural speech of any president with only 133 words.
04 Mar 1822
Boston residents eligible to vote ratify the incorporation of the city and accept the charter to convert their town into a city [1]
04 Mar 1829
Unruly crowd mobs the White House during President Andrew Jacksons inaugural ball
04 Mar 1875
44th US Congress (-77) convenes with a Democratic majority
04 Mar 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
04 Mar 1924
The song Happy Birthday To You is published by Claydon Sunny
04 Mar 1949
Piet Van de Pol of the Netherlands crowned world champion in billiards
04 Mar 1959
NASAs scientific spacecraft Pioneer 4 misses moon enters heliocentric orbit and becomes 2nd (US 1st) earth-launched artificial planet [1]
04 Mar 1969
London East End gang bosses twins Ronnie Kray and Reggie Kray are found guilty of murder both will die in custody
04 Mar 1985
STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) mission cancelled
04 Mar 1699
Jews are expelled from residing in the Free Imperial City of Lbeck Holy Roman Empire
04 Mar 1789
US House of Representatives holds its first full meeting at Federal Hall in NYC. Frederick Muhlenberg is elected as first speaker.
04 Mar 1837
Village of Chicago becomes incorporated as a city
04 Mar 1881
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson begin their first case together in A Study in Scarlet
04 Mar 1902
American Automobile Association (AAA) is founded in Chicago
04 Mar 1913
Gabriel Faurs opera Pnlope based on Homers The Odyssey premieres at the Salle Garnier in Monte Carlo Monaco
04 Mar 1924
The song Happy Birthday to You is published by Clayton F. Summy Co
04 Mar 1959
NASAs scientific spacecraft Pioneer 4 misses the Moon enters a heliocentric orbit and becomes the second (and the first US) Earth-launched artificial planet [1]
04 Mar 1982
Second double hat trick in Islanders history Bossy and D. Potvin
04 Mar 1985
Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by US Environment Protection Agency