March 4
March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (64th in
leap years). There are 302 days remaining.
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303 or
304 -
Martyrdom of
Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
*
852 - Croatian Duke
Trpimir I issued a
statute, a document with the first known written mention of the
Croats name in Croatian sources.
*
1152 -
Frederick I Barbarossa is elected
King of the
Germans.
*
1215 - King
John of England makes an
oath to the
Pope as a
crusader to gain the support of
Innocent III.
*
1238 - The
Battle of the Sit River was 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
Russia.
*
1275 -
Chinese astronomers observe a
total eclipse of the
sun.
*
1351 -
Ramathibodi becomes King of
Siam.
*
1386 -
Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) was crowned
King of Poland.
*
1461 -
Wars of the Roses in
England:
Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his
Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King
Edward IV.
*
1492 - King
James IV of Scotland concludes an
alliance with
France against
England.
*
1493 - Explorer
Christopher Columbus arrives in
America aboard his ship
Niña.
*
1570 - King
Philip II of Spain bans foreign
Dutch students.
*
1611 -
George Abbot is appointed
Archbishop of Canterbury.
*
1621 -
Jakarta,
Java is renamed
Batavia.
*
1629 -
Massachusetts Bay Colony, which had the role of colonizing the Americas, is granted a
Royal charter.
*
1634 - Samuel Cole opens the first
tavern in
Boston, Massachusetts.
*
1665 -
English King
Charles II declares war on
The Netherlands which marked the start of the
Second Anglo-Dutch War.
*
1675 -
John Flamsteed appointed first
Astronomer Royal of
England.
*
1681 -
Charles II of England grants a land charter to
William Penn for the area that will later become
Pennsylvania.
*
1774 - First sighting of
Orion Nebula by
William Herschel.
*
1776 - The American
War of Independence: The Americans capture "
Dorchester Heights" dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts.
*
1778 - The
Continental Congress voted to
ratify both the
Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the
Treaty of Alliance with
France. The two treaties were the first entered into by the
U.S. government.
*
1789 - In
New York City, the first
U.S. Congress meets and declares the new
Constitution of the United States is in effect.
*
1790 -
France is divided into 83
départements, which cut across the
former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.
*
1791 -
Vermont is admitted as the 14th
U.S. state.
* 1791 - A
Constitutional Act is introduced by the British
House of Commons in
London which envisages the separation of
Canada into Lower
Canada (
Quebec) and Upper
Canada (
Ontario).
*
1792 -
Oranges were introduced into
Hawaii.
*
1793 -
French troops conquer
Geertruidenberg,
Netherlands.
*
1794 - The
11th Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution was passed by the
U.S. Congress. The
Amendment limited the
jurisdiction of the
federal courts to automatically hear cases brought against a
state by the citizens of another state. Later interpretations expanded this to include citizens of the state being sued, as well.
*
1797 - Inauguration of
John Adams as 2nd
President of the
USA.
*
1801 -
Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd
President of the
USA, becomes the first
U.S. president inaugurated in
Washington, D.C..
*
1804 - The
Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of
New South Wales (
Australia). [
1]
* 1804 - The
British and Foreign Bible Society (
BFBS) was founded at a large interdenominational meeting in
London.
*
1809 - Inauguration of
James Madison as 4th
President of the
USA.
*
1813 -
Russian troops fighting the army of
Napoleon reach
Berlin in
Germany and the
French garrison
evacuate the city without a fight.
*
1814 -
Americans defeat the
British at the
Battle of Longwoods between
London and
Thamesville near present-day
Wardsville,
Ontario.
*
1817 - Inauguration of
James Monroe as 5th
President of the
USA.
*
1824 - The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" was founded in the
United Kingdom, later to be renamed The
Royal National Lifeboat Institution in
1858.
*
1825 - Inauguration of
John Q. Adams as 6th
President of the
USA.
*
1829 - Inauguration of
Andrew Jackson as 7th
President of the
USA. Subsequently, an unruly crowd mobs the
White House during the inaugural ball.
*
1837 - Inauguration of
Martin Van Buren as 8th
President of the
USA.
* 1837 -
Chicago is granted a city charter by
Illinois.
*
1841 - Inauguration of
William Henry Harrison as 9th
President of the
USA.
Harrison died exactly one month into his term â€" the briefest
presidency in the history of the office - and was the first
president to die in office.
*
1845 - Inauguration of
James Polk as 11th
President of the United States of America.
*
1848 -
Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the
Statuto Albertino that will represent the first
constitution of the
Regno d'Italia*
1849 -
Zachary Taylor refuses to be sworn in office as 12th
President of the
USA on a
Sabbath (
Sunday). Consequently the office of
President of the United States of America is vacant for a single day.
Urban legend instead holds that
David Rice Atchison,
President pro tempore of the United States Senate was
President de jure for a single day.
*
1853 -
Pope Pius IX recovers
Catholic hierarchy in
Netherlands.
* 1853 - Inauguration of
Franklin Pierce as 14th
President of the
USA.
* 1853 - An oncoming
mail train shatters the rear car of a stalled
Pennsylvania Railroad emigrant train in the
Allegheny Mountains near
Mount Union, Pennsylvania, killing seven. This was the highest single
U.S. accident toll up to this time.
*
1857 - Inauguration of
James Buchanan as 15th
President of the
USA.
*
1859 -
Charter of the
French Opera House in
New Orleans is granted, which opens on
December 1 of the same year with a gala performance of
Rossini's "
William Tell".
*
1861 -
President Lincoln opens
Government Printing Office.
* 1861 -
Confederate States adopt "
Stars and Bars" flag, on the same day that
Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as 16th
President of the
USA.
*
1863 -
Territory of
Idaho established.
*
1869 - Inauguration of
Ulysses Grant as 18th
President of the
USA.
*
1877 -
Emile Berliner invents the
microphone.
* 1877 -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's
ballet Swan Lake debuts.
* 1877 - Inauguration of
Rutherford Hayes as 19th
President of the
USA.
*
1880 -
New York Daily Graphic publishes the first half-tone engraving.
*
1881 -
St. Thomas, Ontario,
Canada receives its city
charter.
* 1881 - Inauguration of
James Garfield as 20th
President of the
USA.
*
1885 -
Gilbert & Sullivan's
opera The Mikado premieres in
London.
* 1885 - Inauguration of
Grover Cleveland as 22nd
President of the
USA.
*
1887 -
Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first
automobile which he test runs in
Esslingen and
Cannstatt,
Germany.
*
1889 - Inauguration of
Benjamin Harrison as 23rd
President of the
USA.
*
1890 - The longest bridge in the
United Kingdom, the
Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in
Scotland is opened by the
Prince of Wales, who later became King
Edward VII. [
2]
*
1893 -
Congo Free State: The army of
Francis, Baron Dhanis attacks the
Lualaba, enabling him to transport his troops across the Upper
Congo and, capture
Nyangwe almost without an effort.
* 1893 - Second time inauguration of
Grover Cleveland as 24th
President of the
USA.
*
1894 - Great fire in
Shanghai. Over 1,000 buildings are destroyed.
*
1895 -
Premiere of
Gustav Mahler's second
symphony in
Berlin.
*
1897 - Inauguration of
William McKinley as 25th
President of the
USA.
*
1899 -
Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of
Cooktown,
Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.
*
1902 - In
Chicago, the
American Automobile Association is established.
*
1904 -
Russo-Japanese War:
Russian troops in
Korea retreat toward
Manchuria followed by 100,000
Japanese troops.
*
1905 -
Gerhart Hauptmann's '
Elga' premieres in
Berlin.
*
1907 -
Louis Botha is appointed
Prime Minister of the
Transvaal,
South Africa.
*
1908 - Collingwood Primary School,
Ohio catches fire; 180 die.
*
1909 - Inauguration of
William Taft as 27th
President of the
USA.
*
1911 -
Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes the first
socialist congressman in
U.S..
*
1913 - Inauguration of
Woodrow Wilson as 28th
President of the
USA.
* 1913 - The
United States Department of Commerce and
United States Department of Labor are established by splitting the duties of the 10-year-old
Department of Commerce and Labor.
* 1913 - First
U.S. law regulating the shooting of
migratory birds passed.
*
1917 -
Jeannette Rankin of
Montana becomes the first female member of the
United States House of Representatives.
* 1917 -
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia's renunciation of the
throne is made public, and Tsar
Nicholas II of
Russia publicly issues his
abdication manifesto.
*
1921 - Inauguration of
Warren Harding as 29th
President of the
USA.
* 1921 -
Hot Springs National Park created in
Arkansas.
*
1923 -
Lenin's last article about
Red bureaucracy was published in
Pravda.
*
1924 - The song '
Happy Birthday To You' is published by
Clayton F. Summy.
*
1925 -
Calvin Coolidge becomes the first
President of the United States to have his
inauguration broadcasted on
radio.
*
1926 - The government of
Dirk Jan de Geer takes office in The
Netherlands.
*
1929 - Inauguration of
Herbert Hoover as 31st
President of the
USA.
* 1929 -
Charles Curtis becomes the first
native-American Vice President.
*
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.
*
1931 - The British
Viceroy of
India,
Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and
Mohandas Gandhi (
Mahatma Gandhi) meet to sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing that
salt is freely used by the poorest layers of the population.
*
1933 -
Frances Perkins becomes
United States Secretary of Labor, first female member of the
United States Cabinet.
* 1933 -
Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the
Supreme Court of Canada.
* 1933 - The 32nd
President of the
USA,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, outlines his "
New Deal" in his inauguration speech.
* 1933 - The
Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure -
Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates
authoritarian rule by decree (see
Austrofascism).
*
1936 - First flight of
airship Hindenburg,
Germany.
*
1941 - The
United Kingdom launches
Operation Claymore on the
Lofoten Islands, during
World War II.
* 1941 -
Adolf Hitler applies pressure on
Yugoslavia to join the
Tripartite Pact.
*
1944 - First
U.S. bombing of
Berlin and Anti-
Germany strikes in northern
Italy.
* 1944 - In
Ossining, New York,
Louis Buchalter, the leader of
1930s crime syndicate
Murder, Inc., is executed at
Sing Sing.
*
1945 - In the
United Kingdom,
Princess Elizabeth, later to become
Queen Elizabeth II, joins the
British Army as a driver.
* 1945 -
Lapland War:
Finland declares
war on
nazi-Germany.
*
1946 -
The Voice Of Frank Sinatra, the first
Frank Sinatra album ever, is released by
Columbia Records.
* 1946 -
C.G.E. Mannerheim resigns from the post of
President of Finland.
* 1946 - The
United States,
France and the
United Kingdom launch a call with the
Spaniards in favour of the inversion of the
pro-Franco mode.
* 1949 -
Security Council of
UN recommends membership for
Israel.
*
1950 -
U.S. Premiere of
Walt Disney's animated film
Cinderella.
*
1952 -
Ernest Hemingway completes his short novel
The Old Man and the Sea.
* 1952 -
Ronald Reagan marries his second wife
Nancy Davis in the
San Fernando Valley of
Los Angeles.
*
1954 -
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful
kidney transplant.
* 1954 -
U.S. warns
Latin America against international
communism.
*
1955 - First radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent of
America.
*
1959 -
U.S. Pioneer IV misses
Moon and becomes the second (
U.S. first) artificial planet.
*
1960 -
French freighter 'La Coubre' explodes in
Havana,
Cuba killing 100.
Fidel Castro blames the
U.S.
*
1961 -
Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as
Secretary General of
NATO.
*
1962 -
AEC announces that the first atomic power plant at
McMurdo Station in
Antarctica is in operation.
*
1963 - In
Paris six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate
President Charles de Gaulle.
*
1964 -
Jimmy Hoffa, President of the
Teamsters, is convicted by a Federal jury of tampering with a Federal jury.
* 1966 -
John Lennon says
The Beatles are
"more popular than Jesus" which sparks controversy in the
United States.
* 1966 -
Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at
Tokyo, killing 64 people.
*
1967 - The first
North Sea gas is pumped ashore at
Easington,
County Durham by
BP (
British Petroleum).
*
1969 - The
Kray twins, Ronald and Reginald, face life sentences after being found guilty of the murder of
Jack McVitie at the
Central Criminal Court.
*
1970 -
French submarine
Eurydice explodes.
*
1971 -
Pierre Elliott Trudeau marries
Margaret Sinclair in St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church,
Vancouver and becomes the first
Canadian Prime Minister to marry while in office. The couple divorced in
1984.
*
1972 -
Libya and the
Soviet Union sign a co-operation treaty.
*
1974 -
Harold Wilson becomes
British Prime Minister following the resignation of his predecessor
Edward Heath.
*
1975 -
Charlie Chaplin is knighted by
Queen Elizabeth II of England.
* 1975 - First television coverage of a
Canadian parliamentary committee.
*
1976 - The
Maguire Seven were found guilty of the offence of possessing explosives and were subsequently jailed for 14 years.
* 1976 - The
Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in
Northern Ireland resulting in
direct rule of
Northern Ireland from
London via the
British parliament.
*
1977 - The
1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern
Europe kills more than 1,500.
* 1977 - First
Cray-1 supercomputer shipped to the
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
New Mexico.
*
1978 -
Chicago Daily News, founded in
1875, publishes last issue.
*
1979 -
U.S. Voyager I photo reveals
Jupiter's rings.
*
1980 -
Nationalist leader
Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become
Zimbabwe's first black
prime minister.
*
1982 -
NASA launches "Intelsat V".
*
1985 - The
Food and Drug Administration approves a
blood test for
AIDS, used since then for screening all
blood donations in the
United States.
*
1986 - Launch of the
Today UK tabloid newspaper, now defunct, that pioneered the use of computer photosetting and full-colour
offset printing at a time when British national newspapers were still using
Linotype machines and
letterpress.
*
1987 -
President Reagan addressed the American nation on the
Iran-Contra Affair, acknowledging his overtures to
Iran had "deteriorated" into an arms-for-hostages deal.
*
1988 - Building of the
Louvre Pyramid begins at the Napoleon court of the
Louvre, in
Paris,
France.
*
1989 - Six people die and 80 are injured, some of them seriously, at the
Purley Station rail crash in
Surrey,
England.
* 1989 -
Time, Inc. and
Warner Communications announce plans for a merger forming
Time-Warner.
*
1990 -
Space Shuttle program:
STS-36 (
Space Shuttle Atlantis)
U.S. 65th manned space mission returns from space.
*
1991 - Most primitive form of
World Wide Web is put
online.
* 1991 -
Bank of Credit and Commerce International divests itself of
First American National Bank.
* 1991 - The
Soviet parliament in
Moscow,
Russia ratifies a six-nation
treaty on
German unification.
* 1991 - In
Iraq,
Saddam Hussein releases 6
U.S., 3
British and 1
Italian prisoner of war.
* 1991 -
Sheik Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the
Prime Minister of Kuwait, returned to his country for the first time since
Iraq's invasion.
*
1993 - Authorities announce the capture of suspected
World Trade Center bombing conspirator
Mohammad Salameh.
*
1994 - Four
terrorists are convicted for their roles in the
World Trade Center bombing which killed six and injured more than a thousand.
* 1994 -
Bosnia's
Croats and
Moslems signed an agreement to form a
federation in a loose economic union with
Croatia.
*
1995 -
Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec).
* 1995 -
George Foreman loses
WBA boxing title, refusing to fight
Tony Tucker.
*
1996 - A train carrying
propane and
sodium hydroxide derails in
Weyauwega, Wisconsin and catches fire. 2,200 homes near the accident site are evacuated for 16 days.
*
1997 -
President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.
* 1997 - In
London, the match-fixing trial of footballers
Bruce Grobbelaar,
John Fashanu and
Hans Segers ends in deadlock with the jury failing to reach verdicts.
*
1997 -
Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the
Sun (1.04 AU).
* 1997 - "Zeya Start-1" is launched in (
Russia).
*
1998 -
Gay rights: 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.
* 1998 -
Government, naval and university computers running
Windows NT across the
United States crash as a result of a
hacker. The crash affects computers running at
MIT,
Northwestern University, the
University of Minnesota, and the
University of California campuses at
Berkeley,
Irvine,
Los Angeles, and
San Diego.
*
1999 - In a military court, Captain Richard Ashby of the
United States Marines is acquitted of the charge of reckless flying which resulted in the deaths of 20 skiers in the Italian
Alps when his low-flying jet hit a
gondola cable.
*
2000 - The 22nd
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is held in
Sydney,
Australia.
*
2001 - During the early hours a massive bomb located in a taxi explodes in front of
BBC Television Centre in
London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to dissident
Irish republicans.
* 2001 -
U.S. Attack on Afghanistan: Seven American
Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the
Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
* 2001 -
Swiss referendum overwhelmingly rejects a proposal for immediate membership talks with the
European Union.
* 2001 -
Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern
Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
*
2002 -
Canada banned
human embryo cloning but permitted government-funded scientists to use
embryos left over from
fertility treatment or
abortions.
* 2002 - The moderate leader albanophone
Ibrahim Rugova is elected
President of Kosovo by the Parliament of the Serb province that had been under international control since 1999.
*
2003 - In the southern
Philippines, a bomb hidden in a backpack exploded and killed 21 people at an airport in
Davao City.
* 2003 - In the Indian-controlled portion of
Kashmir, at least 9 people were killed and 52 were injured when a bus fell into a deep gorge.
*
2004 - The guilty verdict for
Moroccan al-Qaeda suspect
Mounir el Motassadeq's involvement in the
September 11, 2001 attacks is overturned by the
German appeals court, which orders a retrial.
* 2004 - The files of
Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun are released to the public five years after his death.
*
2005 - The car of released
Italian hostage
Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by
US soldiers in
Iraq, causing the death of one passenger and injuring two more.
* 2005 -
United Nations warns that about 90 million
Africans could be infected by the
HIV virus in the future without further action against the spread of the disease.
* 2005 -
Wookiepedia [
3]: The
Star Wars Wiki is founded.
*
2006 - The central
Papeete power station is damaged by a fire, resulting in limited power for some areas of
Tahiti for a couple of weeks. [
4]
* 2006 -
Anti-war campaigners criticized
British Prime Minister Tony Blair after he suggested his decision to go to
war in
Iraq would ultimately be judged by
God. [
5]
* 2006 - A new species of
shark,
Mustelus hacat, is discovered in
Mexico's
Sea of Cortez, bringing the number of
Mustelus species found in the eastern
North Pacific to five.
* 2006 - The
Deep Space Network tries one final contact attempt to
Pioneer 10. [
6]
* 2006 - The 28th
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is held in
Sydney,
Australia.
*
1188 -
Blanche of Castile, Queen of
France, wife of King
Louis VIII (d.
1252)
*
1394 - Prince
Henry the Navigator, Portuguese patron of exploration (d.
1460)
*
1492 -
Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer (d. c.
1540)
*
1651 -
John Somers, 1st Baron Somers,
Lord Chancellor of England (d.
1716)
*
1665 -
Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (d.
1694)
*
1678 -
Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d.
1741)
*
1719 -
George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d.
1777)
*
1745 -
Charles Dibdin, English composer and author, Sea Songs (d.
1814)
*
1747 -
Kazimierz Pułaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general (d.
1779)
*
1754 -
Benjamin Waterhouse, Cambridge physician and medical professor (
smallpox vaccine pioneer) (d.
1846)
*
1756 -
Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d.
1823)
*
1782 -
Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist/writer,
Swiss Family Robinson (d.
1830)
*
1792 -
Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d.
1861)
*
1793 -
Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d.
1851)
*
1819 -
Charles Oberthur, Munich-born harp virtuoso and composer (d.
1895)
*
1822 -
Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician, inventor of the
harmonograph (d.
1880)
*
1826 -
Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d.
1863)
*
1835 -
John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d.
1911)
*
1847 -
Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d.
1904).
*
1859 -
Alexander Popov, Russian physicist (d.
1905)
*
1864 - Rear Admiral
David W. Taylor, Naval architect and engineer of the United States Navy (d.
1940)
*
1870 -
Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet, author and artist (d.
1944)
*
1876 -
Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d.
1947)
*
1877 -
Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, Russian composer (d.
1957)
* 1877 -
Garrett Morgan, American inventor (d.
1963)
*
1881 -
Maude Fealy, American stage and film actor (d.
1971)
* 1881 -
Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d.
1948)
* 1881 -
Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer and lawyer (d.
1965)
*
1883 -
Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (d.
1956)
*
1888 -
Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (d.
1931)
*
1889 -
Pearl White, [Victoria], U.S. actress/stunt woman, Perils of Pauline (d.
1938)
*
1895 -
Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian violinist, composer and teacher (d.
1978)
* 1895 -
Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (d.
1953)
*
1897 -
Lefty O'Doul, baseball player and restaurateur (d.
1969)
*
1898 -
Georges Dumézil, philologist, French academic (d.
1940)
*
1900 -
Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (d.
1971)
*
1901 -
Charles Goren, bridge expert (d.
1991)
*
1903 -
Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish statesman (d.
1973)
* 1903 -
Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (d.
1990)
* 1903 -
John Scarne, American magician and card expert (d.
1985)
*
1904 -
George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (d.
1968)
*
1906 -
Meindert DeJong American author of children's books (d.
1991)
*
1908 -
T.R.M. Howard Civil rights leader, surgeon, entrepreneur (d.
1976)
*
1909 -
Harry Helmsley, American real estate entrepreneur(d.
1997)
*
1910 -
Tancredo Neves, civil rights activist (d.
1985)
*
1912 -
Carl Marzani, American political documentary filmmaker, author, editor and publisher (d.
1994)
*
1913 -
John Garfield, American actor (d.
1952)
*
1914 -
Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d.
2002)
*
1915 -
Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer, Monte Carlo (d.
1997)
*
1916 -
Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (d.
2000)
* 1916 -
Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist (d.
1997)
*
1920 -
Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d.
1993)
* 1920 -
Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d.
2002)
*
1921 -
Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born U.S. composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and educator
* 1921 -
Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (d.
1987)
*
1923 -
Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer and broadcaster
*
1925 -
Paul Mauriat, French musician
*
1926 -
Fran Warren, American popular singer
*
1927 -
Thayer David, actor (d.
1978)
* 1927 -
Robert Orben, U.S. magician and comedy writer
*
1928 -
Alan Sillitoe, English writer
* 1928 -
Samuel Adler, composer
*
1929 -
Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor, conductor of
London Philharmonic Orchestra 1969-78
*
1932 -
Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist
* 1932 -
Miriam Makeba, South African singer, Grammy 1965
* 1932 -
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, American custom car designer (d.
2001)
*
1934 -
Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist
* 1934 -
Mario Davidovsky, Argentinian composer, Synchronisms
* 1934 -
John Duffey, bluegrass musician (d.
1996)
* 1934 -
Anne Haney, American actress (d.
2001)
*
1935 -
Bent Larsen, Danish chess player
*
1936 -
Jim Clark Scottish race car driver, Indianapolis 500 (d.
1968)
* 1936 -
David Thompson, British food magnate and multi-millionaire
* 1936 -
Aribert Reimann, German opera composer
*
1937 -
Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer
* 1937 -
Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus of the
Council on Foreign Relations* 1937 -
Yuri Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut (d.
2003)
*
1938 -
Don Perkins, American football player
* 1938 -
Angus MacLise, American percussionist, composer, mystic, shaman, poet, occultist, calligrapher and original drummer for the
Velvet Underground (d.
1979)
*
1939 -
Paula Prentiss, American actress
*
1941 -
Adrian Lyne, English film director
* 1941 -
John Aprea, Italian-American actor
*
1942 -
Charles C. Krulak, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
*
1943 -
Zoltan Jeney, Hungarian composer
* 1943 -
Lucio Dalla, Italian singer-songwriter
*
1944 -
Bobby Womack, American R&B singer and songwriter and guitarist
*
1945 -
Dieter Meier, Swiss singer and children book writer
* 1945 -
Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager and former player
* 1945 -
Gary Williams, Head coach of the University of Maryland's Men's basketball team
*
1946 -
Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker, Professor of Film at Howard University, Washington, DC
* 1946 -
Harvey Goldsmith, British impresario
* 1946 -
Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur/multi-millionaire
*
1947 -
Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
*
1948 -
Chris Squire, British bassist (
Yes)
* 1948 -
Shakin' Stevens (Michael Barratt), Welsh rocker
* 1948 -
James Ellroy, American writer
* 1948 -
Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author
* 1948 -
Tom Grieve, baseball player
* 1948 -
Leron Lee, baseball player
*
1950 -
Rick Perry,
Governor of Texas*
1951 -
Kenny Dalglish Scottish footballer and football manager
* 1951 -
Chris Rea, British singer, rock guitarist and musician
*
1952 -
Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
* 1952 -
Ronn Moss, American actor
* 1952 -
Scott Hicks, Ugandan-born Australian movie director
*
1953 -
Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussianist
* 1953 -
Kay Lenz, American actress
*
1954 -
Willie Thorne, English snooker player
* 1954 -
Adrian Zmed, American actor and dancer
* 1954 -
Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress and comedienne
* 1954 -
Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer
*
1955 -
Dominique Pinon, French actor
*
1958 -
Patricia Heaton, American actress
* 1958 -
Lennie Lee, British performance artist
*
1960 -
Mykelti Williamson, American actor
* 1960 -
Mikko Kuustonen, Finnish singer-songwriter, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador
*
1961 -
Ray Mancini, American boxer
* 1961 -
Steven Weber, American actor
*
1963 -
Jason Newsted, American bassist (
Metallica)
*
1964 -
Tom Lampkin, baseball player
*
1965 -
Gary Helms, American kickboxer
* 1965 -
Paul W.S. Anderson, British filmmaker, producer and screenwriter
*
1966 -
Kevin Johnson, American basketball player
* 1966 -
Grand Puba (Brand Nubian), American rapper
* 1966 -
Dav Pilkey, American author and illustrator
* 1966 -
Patrick Hannan, English pop drummer (The Sundays)
*
1967 -
Evan Dando, American musician (
The Lemonheads)
*
1968 -
Patsy Kensit, English actress
* 1968 -
Brian Hunter, baseball player
*
1969 -
Chastity Bono, American actress, advocate for
human rights and
gay rights, daughter of
Sonny and Cher*
1971 -
Fergal Lawler, Irish drummer (
The Cranberries)
* 1971 -
Nick Stabile, American actor
*
1972 -
Jos Verstappen, former Dutch
Formula 1 driver
* 1972 -
Pae Gil-Su, North Korean Olympic gymnast
*
1974 -
Karol Kucera, Slovak tennis player
* 1974 -
Ariel Ortega, Argentine football player
*
1975 -
Myrna Veenstra, former Dutch Olympic field hockey player
*
1976 -
Vic Wunderle, American Olympic archer
*
1977 -
Jason Marsalis, American jazz musician
*
1979 -
Geoff Huegill, Australian Olympic swimmer
*
1982 -
Landon Donovan, American soccer player
*
1986 -
Margo Harshman, American actress
*
1990 -
Andrea Bowen, American actress
*
1993 -
Jenna Boyd, American actress
*
1999 -
Brooklyn Beckham, son of English footballer
David Beckham and singer and former
Spice Girl Victoria Beckham*
1172 - King
Stephen III of Hungary (b.
1147).
*
1193 -
Saladin, Turkish sultan (b.
1137)
*
1238 -
Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of King
Alexander II of Scotland (b.
1210)
* 1238 -
Yuri II of
Vladimir-Suzdal,
Grand Prince of
Vladimir (b.
1189)
*
1484 -
Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b.
1458)
*
1496 - Archduke
Sigismund of Austria (b.
1427)
*
1604 -
Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b.
1539)
*
1615 -
Hans von Aachen, German painter (b.
1552)
*
1619 -
Anne of Denmark, wife of King
James I of England (b.
1574)
*
1710 -
Louis III, Prince of Condé (b.
1668)
*
1733 -
Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b.
1656)
*
1793 -
Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre, French admiral (b.
1725)
*
1795 -
John Collins, American politician (b.
1717)
*
1805 -
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b.
1725)
*
1827 -
Ira Remsen American chemist, discoverer of the
artificial sweetener saccharin (b.
1762)
*
1832 -
Jean-François Champollion, French classical scholar, philologist, orientalist, and Egyptologist. (b.
1790)
*
1852 -
Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (b.
1809)
*
1853 -
Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b.
1774)
*
1858 -
Matthew Perry, U.S. naval officer (b.
1794)
*
1866 -
Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder of the
Disciples of Christ (b.
1788)
*
1868 -
Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the
Chisholm Trail (b.
1805)
*
1888 -
Amos Bronson Alcott, American reformer, philosopher and teacher (b.
1799)
*
1903 -
Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b.
1834)
*
1915 -
William Willett, Inventor of
Daylight Saving Time (b.
1856)
*
1916 -
Franz Marc, German artist (b.
1880)
*
1922 -
Bert Williams [Egbert Austin Williams], African American entertainer (b.
1874)
*
1925 -
Monte Ward, baseball player (b.
1860)
* 1925 -
Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (b.
1854)
*
1927 -
Ira Remsen American chemist, discoverer of the
artificial sweetener saccharin (b.
1846)
*
1940 -
Hamlin Garland [Hamlin Hannibal Garland], American novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer (b.
1860)
*
1941 -
Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1858)
*
1944 -
Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster, head of Murder, Inc. (b.
1897)
*
1946 -
Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b.
1886)
*
1948 -
Antonin Artaud, French actor, director, and author (b.
1896)
*
1952 -
Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1857)
*
1954 -
Noel Gay, English composer, (b.
1898)
*
1959 -
Maxey Long, American athlete, (b.
1878)
*
1960 -
Leonard Warren, American operatic baritone (b.
1911)
*
1963 -
William Carlos Williams, American poet (b.
1883)
*
1969 -
Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)
*
1974 -
Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter (b.
1903)
*
1976 -
Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b.
1886)
*
1977 -
Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b.
1951)
*
1979 -
Willi Unsoeld, American mountain climber (b.
1926)
*
1986 -
Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (
The Band) (b.
1943)
* 1986 -
Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b.
1936)
*
1990 -
Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b.
1967)
*
1992 -
Art Babbitt, animator (
Mister Magoo,
Goofy) (b.
1907)
*
1994 -
John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (b.
1950)
*
1995 -
Eden Ahbez [Alexander Aberle], composer, unique character of pre-rock American popular music (b.
1908)
*
1996 -
Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b.
1912)
*
1997 -
Robert H. Dicke, American experimental physicist (b.
1916)
* 1997 -
Carey Loftin, American actor and stuntman (b.
1914)
*
1999 -
Harry A. Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b.
1908)
* 1999 -
Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (b.
1921)
* 1999 -
Del Close, American actor, improviser, writer, and teacher (b.
1934)
*
2001 -
Glenn Hughes (singer), American musician (
The Village People)
* 2001 -
Harold Stassen, American politician (b.
1907)
* 2001 -
Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b.
1916)
*
2002 -
Claire Davenport, British actress (b.
1933)
* 2002 -
Elyne Mitchell, Australian author of children's novels (b.
1913)
* 2002 -
Eric Flynn, British actor and singer (b.
1939)
*
2003 -
Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian politician and bank robber (b.
1926)
*
2004 -
John McGeoch, Scottish musician (
Siouxsie and the Banshees and
Public Image Ltd.) (b.
1955)
* 2004 -
Claude Nougaro, French singer (b.
1929)
* 2004 -
Stephen Sprouse, fashion designer, artist, and photographer (b.
1953)
*
2005 -
Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent (b.
1953)
* 2005 -
Una Hale, Australian soprano (b.
1922)
* 2005 -
Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman (b.
1951)
* 2005 -
Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-born Belarusian translator and writer (b.
1934)
*
2006 -
Roman Ogaza, Polish football player (b.
1952)
* 2006 -
Edgar Valter, Estonian children's book illustrator and cartoonist (b.
1929)
* 2006 -
John Reynolds Gardiner, American author and engineer (b.
1944)
*
Wales - Feast day of
Rhiannon, Celtic Moon Goddess.
*
Pennsylvania -
Charter Day (
1681).
*
Vermont -
Admission Day (
1791).
*
St. Thomas,
Ontario,
Canada -
Charter Day (
1881)
*
United States -
Inauguration Day (
1789 -
1933)
Liturgical feasts
*
Catholicism - Feast day of
Saint Casimir,
patron saint of
Lithuania.
*
Saint Adrian of Nicomedia,
bishop of
Saint Andrew's, and his Companions.
*
Saint Basil and his Companions.
*
Saint Efrem * Feast day of
Humbert III of Savoy.
* Feast day of Saint
Placide Viel.
* Saint
Pierre de Cluny.
* Saint
Lucius I.
* Saint
Peter of Pappacarbone.
*
Catholicism - Commemoration of
Saint Lucius I,
pope,
martyr.
*
BBC: On This Day*
The New York Times: On This Day*
On This Day in CanadaMarch 3 -
March 5 -
February 4 -
April 4 --
listing of all days
