March 4
1681 - England's King Charles II granted a charter to William Penn for an area of land that later became Pennsylvania.
1789 - The United States Constitution was declared in effect as the first Congress convened in New York City.
1791 - Vermont became the 14th state.
1793 - President George Washington was sworn into a second term in office.
1797 - John Adams was sworn in as the nation's second president.
1801 - Thomas Jefferson was sworn in as the nation's third president.
1805 - President Thomas Jefferson was sworn into a second term in office.
1809 - James Madison took the oath of office as the nation's fourth president.
1813 - President James Madison was sworn into a second term in office.
1817 - James Monroe was sworn in as the fifth president of the United States.
1825 - John Quincy Adams, son of former President John Adams, was sworn in as the nation's sixth president.
1829 - Andrew Jackson was sworn in as the nation's seventh president.
1833 - President Andrew Jackson was sworn into a second term in office.
1837 - The Illinois state legislature granted a city charter to Chicago.
1837 - Martin Van Buren was sworn in as the eighth president of the United States.
1841 - William Henry Harrison was sworn in as the ninth president of the United States.
1845 - James K. Polk was inaugurated as the 11th president of the United States.
1853 - Franklin Pierce was inaugurated as the 14th president of the United States.
1857 - James Buchanan was sworn in as the 15th president of the United States.
1861 - Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the nation's 16th president.
1863 - The Idaho Territory was created.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was sworn into a second term in office.
1869 - Ulysses S. Grant was inaugurated as the 18th president of the United States.
1873 - President Ulysses S. Grant is sworn into a second term in office.
1881 - James A. Garfield is inaugurated as the 20th president of the United States.
1885 - Grover Cleveland is inaugurated as the 22nd president of the United States.
1889 - Benjamin Harrison, grandson of former President William Henry Harrison, is sworn in as the 23rd president of the United States.
1893 - Grover Cleveland is inaugurated as the 24th president of the United States and the only president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive terms.
1897 - William McKinley is sworn in as the 25th president of the United States.
1901 - President William McKinley is sworn into a second term in office.
1905 - President Theodore Roosevelt is sworn into a second term in office as the nation's 26th chief executive.
1909 - William Howard Taft is inaugurated as the 27th president of the United States.
1913 - Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th president of the United States.
1917 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana took her seat as the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
1921 - Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th president of the United States.
1925 - President Calvin Coolidge is sworn into a second term as the 30th president of the United States.
1929 - Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st president of the United States.
1933 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States.
1933 - Frances Perkins, appointed Secretary of Labor, became the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet.
1952 - Actors Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis were married in North Hollywood, California.
1964 - Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa and three co-defendants were found guilty in a federal court in Chattanooga, Tennessee of jury tampering.
1974 - The first issue of "People" magazine, then called People Weekly, was published by Time-Life Inc.; actress Mia Farrow was on the cover of the debut issue.
1981 - A jury in Salt Lake City convicted Joseph Paul Franklin, an avowed racist and serial killer, of violating the civil rights of two Black men, Ted Fields and David Martin, who'd been shot to death. (Franklin received two life sentences for this crime; he was executed in 2013 for the 1977 murder of a Jewish man, Gerald Gordon.)
1987 - President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation on the Iran-Contra affair, acknowledging his overtures to Iran had "deteriorated" into an arms-for-hostages deal.
1989 - Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. announced plans to merge.
1994 - Actor-comedian John Candy died in Durango, Mexico at age 43.
1994 - Four Muslim fundamentalists were found guilty in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York.
1997 - President Bill Clinton barred spending federal money on human cloning.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that sexual harassment at work can be illegal even when the offender and victim are of the same gender.
1999 - Retired Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun died in Arlington, Virginia at age 90.
2012 - Vladimir Putin scored a decisive victory in Russia's presidential election to return to the Kremlin and extend his hold on power for six more years.
2015 - The Justice Department cleared Darren Wilson, a white former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer, in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a Black 18-year-old, but also issued a scathing report calling for sweeping changes in city law enforcement practices.
2016 - The U.S. Supreme Court blocked enforcement of a Louisiana clinic regulation law placing new restrictions on abortion.
2018 - Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found unconscious on a bench in the southwestern English city of Salisbury; both survived what British authorities said was a murder attempt using a nerve agent.
2020 - The House easily passed an $8.3 billion measure aimed at speeding the development of coronavirus vaccines, paying for containment operations and beefing up preparedness. Federal health officials investigated a suburban Seattle nursing home at the center of a coronavirus outbreak. Italy closed all schools and universities and barred fans from sporting events. The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared more than 1,100 points as governments and central banks around the globe took more aggressive measures to deal with the virus and its effects on the economy.
2020 - After spending more than $500 million of his own fortune in a bid for the presidency, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg dropped out of the Democratic race but pledged to keep spending in an effort to defeat President Donald Trump.
Birthdays
28 - Jenna Boyd (actress)
31 - Andrea Bowen (actress)
31 - Draymond Green (basketball player)
33 - Josh Bowman (actor)
35 - Margo Harshman (actress)
35 - Park Min-young (actress)
35 - Audrey Esparza (actress)
35 - K Michelle (singer)
36 - Whitney Port (TV personality)
36 - Scott Michael Foster (actor)
38 - Jessica Heap (actress)
44 - Jason Marsalis (musician)
50 - Jason Sellers (country singer)
51 - Nick Stabile (actor)
51 - Andrea Brendewald (actress)
52 - Chaz Bono (reality star)
53 - Patsy Kensit (actress)
56 - Stacy Edwards (actress)
60 - Steven Weber (actor)
63 - Patricia Heaton (actress)
64 - Mykelti Williamson (actor)
67 - Catherine O'Hara (actress)
68 - Emilio Estefan (musician)
68 - Kay Lenz (actress)
73 - James Ellroy (author)
83 - Paula Prentiss (actress)
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Today in Sports History - March 4
1913 - The New York Yankees traveled to Bermuda for spring practice. They were the first team to leave the U.S. to train.
1927 - Babe Ruth became baseball's highest-paid player, signing a three-year contract with the New York Yankees worth $70,000 a year.
1970 - The New York Rangers set an NHL record of 126 games without being shutout.
1981 - Guy LaFleur of the Montreal Canadiens scores his 1,000th career point.
1993 - ESPN formed "The V Foundation" with Jim Valvano; the company also held the first ESPY Awards ceremony.
1995 - George Foreman is stripped of the WBA heavyweight title after refusing to fight Tony Tucker.
1681 - England's King Charles II granted a charter to William Penn for an area of land that later became Pennsylvania.
1789 - The United States Constitution was declared in effect as the first Congress convened in New York City.
1791 - Vermont became the 14th state.
1793 - President George Washington was sworn into a second term in office.
1797 - John Adams was sworn in as the nation's second president.
1801 - Thomas Jefferson was sworn in as the nation's third president.
1805 - President Thomas Jefferson was sworn into a second term in office.
1809 - James Madison took the oath of office as the nation's fourth president.
1813 - President James Madison was sworn into a second term in office.
1817 - James Monroe was sworn in as the fifth president of the United States.
1825 - John Quincy Adams, son of former President John Adams, was sworn in as the nation's sixth president.
1829 - Andrew Jackson was sworn in as the nation's seventh president.
1833 - President Andrew Jackson was sworn into a second term in office.
1837 - The Illinois state legislature granted a city charter to Chicago.
1837 - Martin Van Buren was sworn in as the eighth president of the United States.
1841 - William Henry Harrison was sworn in as the ninth president of the United States.
1845 - James K. Polk was inaugurated as the 11th president of the United States.
1853 - Franklin Pierce was inaugurated as the 14th president of the United States.
1857 - James Buchanan was sworn in as the 15th president of the United States.
1861 - Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the nation's 16th president.
1863 - The Idaho Territory was created.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was sworn into a second term in office.
1869 - Ulysses S. Grant was inaugurated as the 18th president of the United States.
1873 - President Ulysses S. Grant is sworn into a second term in office.
1881 - James A. Garfield is inaugurated as the 20th president of the United States.
1885 - Grover Cleveland is inaugurated as the 22nd president of the United States.
1889 - Benjamin Harrison, grandson of former President William Henry Harrison, is sworn in as the 23rd president of the United States.
1893 - Grover Cleveland is inaugurated as the 24th president of the United States and the only president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive terms.
1897 - William McKinley is sworn in as the 25th president of the United States.
1901 - President William McKinley is sworn into a second term in office.
1905 - President Theodore Roosevelt is sworn into a second term in office as the nation's 26th chief executive.
1909 - William Howard Taft is inaugurated as the 27th president of the United States.
1913 - Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th president of the United States.
1917 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana took her seat as the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
1921 - Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th president of the United States.
1925 - President Calvin Coolidge is sworn into a second term as the 30th president of the United States.
1929 - Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st president of the United States.
1933 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States.
1933 - Frances Perkins, appointed Secretary of Labor, became the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet.
1952 - Actors Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis were married in North Hollywood, California.
1964 - Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa and three co-defendants were found guilty in a federal court in Chattanooga, Tennessee of jury tampering.
1974 - The first issue of "People" magazine, then called People Weekly, was published by Time-Life Inc.; actress Mia Farrow was on the cover of the debut issue.
1981 - A jury in Salt Lake City convicted Joseph Paul Franklin, an avowed racist and serial killer, of violating the civil rights of two Black men, Ted Fields and David Martin, who'd been shot to death. (Franklin received two life sentences for this crime; he was executed in 2013 for the 1977 murder of a Jewish man, Gerald Gordon.)
1987 - President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation on the Iran-Contra affair, acknowledging his overtures to Iran had "deteriorated" into an arms-for-hostages deal.
1989 - Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. announced plans to merge.
1994 - Actor-comedian John Candy died in Durango, Mexico at age 43.
1994 - Four Muslim fundamentalists were found guilty in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York.
1997 - President Bill Clinton barred spending federal money on human cloning.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that sexual harassment at work can be illegal even when the offender and victim are of the same gender.
1999 - Retired Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun died in Arlington, Virginia at age 90.
2012 - Vladimir Putin scored a decisive victory in Russia's presidential election to return to the Kremlin and extend his hold on power for six more years.
2015 - The Justice Department cleared Darren Wilson, a white former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer, in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a Black 18-year-old, but also issued a scathing report calling for sweeping changes in city law enforcement practices.
2016 - The U.S. Supreme Court blocked enforcement of a Louisiana clinic regulation law placing new restrictions on abortion.
2018 - Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found unconscious on a bench in the southwestern English city of Salisbury; both survived what British authorities said was a murder attempt using a nerve agent.
2020 - The House easily passed an $8.3 billion measure aimed at speeding the development of coronavirus vaccines, paying for containment operations and beefing up preparedness. Federal health officials investigated a suburban Seattle nursing home at the center of a coronavirus outbreak. Italy closed all schools and universities and barred fans from sporting events. The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared more than 1,100 points as governments and central banks around the globe took more aggressive measures to deal with the virus and its effects on the economy.
2020 - After spending more than $500 million of his own fortune in a bid for the presidency, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg dropped out of the Democratic race but pledged to keep spending in an effort to defeat President Donald Trump.
Birthdays
28 - Jenna Boyd (actress)
31 - Andrea Bowen (actress)
31 - Draymond Green (basketball player)
33 - Josh Bowman (actor)
35 - Margo Harshman (actress)
35 - Park Min-young (actress)
35 - Audrey Esparza (actress)
35 - K Michelle (singer)
36 - Whitney Port (TV personality)
36 - Scott Michael Foster (actor)
38 - Jessica Heap (actress)
44 - Jason Marsalis (musician)
50 - Jason Sellers (country singer)
51 - Nick Stabile (actor)
51 - Andrea Brendewald (actress)
52 - Chaz Bono (reality star)
53 - Patsy Kensit (actress)
56 - Stacy Edwards (actress)
60 - Steven Weber (actor)
63 - Patricia Heaton (actress)
64 - Mykelti Williamson (actor)
67 - Catherine O'Hara (actress)
68 - Emilio Estefan (musician)
68 - Kay Lenz (actress)
73 - James Ellroy (author)
83 - Paula Prentiss (actress)
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Today in Sports History - March 4
1913 - The New York Yankees traveled to Bermuda for spring practice. They were the first team to leave the U.S. to train.
1927 - Babe Ruth became baseball's highest-paid player, signing a three-year contract with the New York Yankees worth $70,000 a year.
1970 - The New York Rangers set an NHL record of 126 games without being shutout.
1981 - Guy LaFleur of the Montreal Canadiens scores his 1,000th career point.
1993 - ESPN formed "The V Foundation" with Jim Valvano; the company also held the first ESPY Awards ceremony.
1995 - George Foreman is stripped of the WBA heavyweight title after refusing to fight Tony Tucker.
