March 4
1789 - The Constitution of the United States was declared to be in effect.
1791 - Vermont became the 14th state.
1861 - Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States.
1863 - The Idaho Territory was established.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term in office; with the end of the Civil War in sight, Lincoln declared: "With malice toward none, with charity for all."
1917 - Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana took her seat as the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
1917 - President Woodrow Wilson was sworn in to a second term in office. (Being a Sunday, a private ceremony was held inside the U.S. Capitol; a second, public swearing-in took place the next day.)
1933 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as the nation's 32nd president.
1933 - Frances Perkins, appointed Secretary of Labor, became the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet.
1966 - John Lennon of The Beatles was quoted in the London Evening Standard as saying, “We’re more popular than Jesus now,” a comment that caused an angry backlash in the United States.
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 that his overtures to Iran had “deteriorated” into an arms-for-hostages deal.
1994 - Four Muslim fundamentalists were found guilty in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York.
1994 - Actor-comedian John Candy died in Durango, Mexico, at age 43.
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.
2013 - Cardinals from around the world gathered inside the Vatican for their first round of meetings before the conclave to elect the next pope, following the retirement of Benedict XVI.
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.
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.
2022 - Russian troops seized the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe after a middle-of-the-night attack that set it on fire and briefly raised worldwide fears of a catastrophe in the most chilling turn in Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine to that point.
Birthdays
30 - Jenna Boyd (actress)
33 - Andrea Bowen (actress)
33 - Draymond Green (basketball player)
35 - Josh Bowman (actor)
37 - Margo Harshman (actress)
37 - Audrey Esparza (actress)
38 - Whitney Port (TV personality)
38 - Scott Michael Foster (actor)
40 - Jessica Heap (actress)
52 - Jason Sellers (singer)
53 - Nick Stabile (actor)
53 - Andrea Bendewald (actress)
55 - Patsy Kensit (actress)
58 - Stacy Edwards (actress)
62 - Steven Weber (actor)
65 - Patricia Heaton (actress)
69 - Catherine O'Hara (actress)
70 - Emilio Estefan (musician)
70 - Kay Lenz (actress)
85 - 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.
1930 - Emma Fahning became the first woman bowler to make a perfect score in competition sanctioned by the Women's International Bowling Congress.
1970 - Jacksonville becomes the first college basketball team to average 100 points per game.
1981 - Guy LaFleur (Montreal Canadiens) scored his 1000th career point.
1993 - In New York, the first ESPY Awards were held.
1993 - ESPN formed "The V Foundation" with Jim Valvano.
1995 - George Foreman is stripped of the WBA heavyweight boxing championship after refusing to fight Tony Tucker.
1789 - The Constitution of the United States was declared to be in effect.
1791 - Vermont became the 14th state.
1861 - Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States.
1863 - The Idaho Territory was established.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term in office; with the end of the Civil War in sight, Lincoln declared: "With malice toward none, with charity for all."
1917 - Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana took her seat as the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
1917 - President Woodrow Wilson was sworn in to a second term in office. (Being a Sunday, a private ceremony was held inside the U.S. Capitol; a second, public swearing-in took place the next day.)
1933 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as the nation's 32nd president.
1933 - Frances Perkins, appointed Secretary of Labor, became the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet.
1966 - John Lennon of The Beatles was quoted in the London Evening Standard as saying, “We’re more popular than Jesus now,” a comment that caused an angry backlash in the United States.
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 that his overtures to Iran had “deteriorated” into an arms-for-hostages deal.
1994 - Four Muslim fundamentalists were found guilty in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York.
1994 - Actor-comedian John Candy died in Durango, Mexico, at age 43.
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.
2013 - Cardinals from around the world gathered inside the Vatican for their first round of meetings before the conclave to elect the next pope, following the retirement of Benedict XVI.
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.
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.
2022 - Russian troops seized the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe after a middle-of-the-night attack that set it on fire and briefly raised worldwide fears of a catastrophe in the most chilling turn in Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine to that point.
Birthdays
30 - Jenna Boyd (actress)
33 - Andrea Bowen (actress)
33 - Draymond Green (basketball player)
35 - Josh Bowman (actor)
37 - Margo Harshman (actress)
37 - Audrey Esparza (actress)
38 - Whitney Port (TV personality)
38 - Scott Michael Foster (actor)
40 - Jessica Heap (actress)
52 - Jason Sellers (singer)
53 - Nick Stabile (actor)
53 - Andrea Bendewald (actress)
55 - Patsy Kensit (actress)
58 - Stacy Edwards (actress)
62 - Steven Weber (actor)
65 - Patricia Heaton (actress)
69 - Catherine O'Hara (actress)
70 - Emilio Estefan (musician)
70 - Kay Lenz (actress)
85 - 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.
1930 - Emma Fahning became the first woman bowler to make a perfect score in competition sanctioned by the Women's International Bowling Congress.
1970 - Jacksonville becomes the first college basketball team to average 100 points per game.
1981 - Guy LaFleur (Montreal Canadiens) scored his 1000th career point.
1993 - In New York, the first ESPY Awards were held.
1993 - ESPN formed "The V Foundation" with Jim Valvano.
1995 - George Foreman is stripped of the WBA heavyweight boxing championship after refusing to fight Tony Tucker.
