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Events on the 4th of March in history

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04 Mar 2051 Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
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04 Mar 0306 Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
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04 Mar 0852 Croatian Knyaz Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
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04 Mar 0932 Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
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04 Mar 1152 Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German King
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04 Mar 1152 Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany.
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04 Mar 1238 The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Rus'.
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04 Mar 1351 Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
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04 Mar 1386 Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
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04 Mar 1461 Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English Queen Margaretha Edward IV recognized as King of England
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04 Mar 1461 Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his House of York cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
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04 Mar 1493 Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
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04 Mar 1519 Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.
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04 Mar 1540 Protestant count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife
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04 Mar 1570 King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students
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04 Mar 1611 George Abbot appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
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04 Mar 1621 Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia
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04 Mar 1628 The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
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04 Mar 1665 English King Charles II declares war on Netherlands
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04 Mar 1665 English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
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04 Mar 1675 John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
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04 Mar 1681 King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn
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04 Mar 1681 Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
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04 Mar 1699 Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany
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04 Mar 1741 English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena
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04 Mar 1774 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)
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04 Mar 1776 American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
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04 Mar 1789 1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps)
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04 Mar 1789 In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect. The United States Bill of Rights is written and proposed to Congress.
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04 Mar 1790 France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
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04 Mar 1791 1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office
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04 Mar 1791 President Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session
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04 Mar 1791 Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
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04 Mar 1791 Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
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04 Mar 1791 The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
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04 Mar 1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii
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04 Mar 1793 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Neth
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04 Mar 1794 The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
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04 Mar 1797 John Adams inaugurated as 2nd President of US
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04 Mar 1798 Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews
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04 Mar 1801 1st President inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson)
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04 Mar 1804 Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
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04 Mar 1809 Madison becomes 1st President inaugurated in American-made clothes
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04 Mar 1814 Americans defeat British forces at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
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04 Mar 1825 John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th President
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04 Mar 1826 1st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachusetts
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04 Mar 1829 Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th President
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04 Mar 1829 Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball
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04 Mar 1837 Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th President
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04 Mar 1837 Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
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04 Mar 1837 The city of Chicago is incorporated.
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04 Mar 1841 Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison
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04 Mar 1845 James K Polk inaugrated at 11th President
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04 Mar 1848 Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution
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04 Mar 1848 Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia.
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04 Mar 1853 Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in the Netherlands
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04 Mar 1853 William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US VP
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04 Mar 1861 Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag
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04 Mar 1861 President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office
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04 Mar 1861 The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted.
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04 Mar 1863 Territory of Idaho established
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04 Mar 1865 Confederate Congress approves final design of "official flag"
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04 Mar 1865 President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as President
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04 Mar 1865 The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
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04 Mar 1869 Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th President
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04 Mar 1876 US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap
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04 Mar 1880 New York Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S H Horgan
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04 Mar 1881 California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
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04 Mar 1881 Holmes and Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet, " 1st case together
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04 Mar 1881 James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th President
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04 Mar 1881 South African President Kruger accepts ceasefire
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04 Mar 1882 Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
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04 Mar 1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi
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04 Mar 1885 Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War
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04 Mar 1889 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd President
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04 Mar 1890 The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII.
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04 Mar 1893 Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th US President (2nd term)
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04 Mar 1894 Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
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04 Mar 1897 William McKinley inaugurated as 25th President of US
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04 Mar 1899 Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.
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04 Mar 1901 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer)
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04 Mar 1901 President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as President
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04 Mar 1901 Term of George H White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends
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04 Mar 1902 American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
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04 Mar 1908 Collingwood Ohio primary school catches fire; 180 die
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04 Mar 1908 The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
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04 Mar 1909 President Taft inaugrated at 27th President during 10" snowstorm
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04 Mar 1909 US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
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04 Mar 1909 U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State
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04 Mar 1911 Victor Berger (Wisc) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US
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04 Mar 1913 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed
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04 Mar 1913 Department of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments
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04 Mar 1913 New York Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda)
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04 Mar 1913 Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th President
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04 Mar 1913 The United States Department of Labor is formed.
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04 Mar 1913 First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
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04 Mar 1917 Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) becomes 1st female member of Congress
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04 Mar 1917 Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
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04 Mar 1918 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)
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04 Mar 1918 The USS Cyclops departs from Barbados and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle.
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04 Mar 1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
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04 Mar 1921 Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas
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04 Mar 1924 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
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04 Mar 1926 De Geer government in the Netherlands takes office
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04 Mar 1928 "Bunion Run" race from LA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne
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04 Mar 1929 Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP
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04 Mar 1929 Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st President
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04 Mar 1930 Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
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04 Mar 1930 Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
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04 Mar 1931 Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as West Indies win the Test
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04 Mar 1931 West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG
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04 Mar 1933 Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament
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04 Mar 1933 FDR inaugrated as 32nd pres, pledges to pull US out of Depression and says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
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04 Mar 1933 Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, 1st US woman cabinet member
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04 Mar 1933 Noordwijk soccer team forms
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04 Mar 1933 The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
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04 Mar 1933 Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
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04 Mar 1934 Easter Cross on Mt Davidson (San Francisco) dedicated
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04 Mar 1936 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
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04 Mar 1941 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague
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04 Mar 1941 NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots
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04 Mar 1941 Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler
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04 Mar 1941 World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands; the first large scale British Commando raid.
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04 Mar 1943 Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek / Sobibor
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04 Mar 1943 World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the south-west Pacific comes to an end.
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04 Mar 1944 1st US bombing of Berlin
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04 Mar 1944 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
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04 Mar 1944 World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
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04 Mar 1945 Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
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04 Mar 1947 WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
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04 Mar 1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister
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04 Mar 1949 Piet Van de Pol (Neth) becomes world champion billiard player
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04 Mar 1949 Security Council of the UN recommends membership for Israel
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04 Mar 1954 JE Wilkins, appointed 1st Black US sub-cabinet member
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04 Mar 1955 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
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04 Mar 1957 The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
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04 Mar 1959 US Pioneer IV misses Moon and becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet
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04 Mar 1960 Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz
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04 Mar 1960 The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100.
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04 Mar 1961 Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary General of NATO
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04 Mar 1962 AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
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04 Mar 1962 A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 – the worst crash of a DC-7.
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04 Mar 1964 Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
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04 Mar 1965 David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2
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04 Mar 1966 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die
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04 Mar 1966 John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
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04 Mar 1966 North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by BP
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04 Mar 1966 A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
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04 Mar 1967 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler and Ford (GRB)
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04 Mar 1967 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova and Protopopov (USSR)
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04 Mar 1967 Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (US)
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04 Mar 1968 Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
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04 Mar 1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
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04 Mar 1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes
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04 Mar 1970 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to average 100+ pts per game
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04 Mar 1970 New York Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
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04 Mar 1970 French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
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04 Mar 1971 "City Command" kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey
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04 Mar 1972 Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5)
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04 Mar 1972 Last train run between Penrith to Keswick UK
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04 Mar 1972 Libya and the USSR signs cooperation treaty
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04 Mar 1973 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
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04 Mar 1974 Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British Premier
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04 Mar 1974 People magazine is published for the first time in the United States as People Weekly.
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04 Mar 1976 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
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04 Mar 1976 San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth
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04 Mar 1976 The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
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04 Mar 1977 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico
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04 Mar 1977 Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain
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04 Mar 1977 Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541
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04 Mar 1977 The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in the seriously damaged city of Bucharest, Romania.
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04 Mar 1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
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04 Mar 1979 "Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 61 performances
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04 Mar 1979 200th episode of "All in the Family"
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04 Mar 1979 Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
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04 Mar 1980 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
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04 Mar 1980 Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
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04 Mar 1982 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy and D Potvin
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04 Mar 1983 Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
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04 Mar 1984 Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
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04 Mar 1985 STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled
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04 Mar 1985 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA
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04 Mar 1985 War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"
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04 Mar 1985 The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
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04 Mar 1986 The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
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04 Mar 1989 Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
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04 Mar 1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike
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04 Mar 1989 Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)
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04 Mar 1990 20th Easter Seal Telethon
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04 Mar 1990 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space
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04 Mar 1991 Bank of Credit and Commerce International divests itself of 1st American Bank
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04 Mar 1991 Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British and 1 Italian POW
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04 Mar 1991 Sheikh Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.
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04 Mar 1993 "Goodbye Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 188 performances
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04 Mar 1993 Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion
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04 Mar 1994 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
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04 Mar 1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit
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04 Mar 1995 George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker
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04 Mar 1995 Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 seconds)
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04 Mar 1995 Replacement New York Yankees beat the New York Mets 2-1
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04 Mar 1996 A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, US, causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
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04 Mar 1997 Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks
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04 Mar 1997 Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU)
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04 Mar 1997 President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research
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04 Mar 1997 Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia)
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04 Mar 1998 Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: 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.
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04 Mar 2001 Hintze Ribeiro disaster: A bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
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04 Mar 2001 BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
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04 Mar 2002 Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah-i-Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
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04 Mar 2009 The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
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04 Mar 2015 At least 34 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine.
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