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March 4
1789 - The U.S. Constitution went into effect as the first Congress met in New York.
1791 - Vermont became the 14th state.
1861 - Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the nation's 16th president.
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, with firmness in the fight as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
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 took the oath of office for a second term in office. (Since March 4 was on 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 32nd president of the United States.
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 City.
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.
2012 - Vladimir Putin scored a decisive victory in Russia’s presidential election to return to the Kremlin and extend his hold on power.
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.
2017 - President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of tapping his telephones during the 2016 election; an Obama spokesman declared that the assertion was “simply false.”
2020 - Federal health officials investigated a suburban Seattle nursing home at the center of a coronavirus outbreak.
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
31 - Jenna Boyd (actress)
34 - Andrea Bowen (actress)
34 - Draymond Green (basketball player)
36 - Josh Bowman (actor)
37 - Tamzin Merchant (actress)
38 - Margo Harshman (actress)
38 - Audrey Esparza (actress)
38 - Park Min-young (actress)
39 - Whitney Port (TV personality)
39 - Scott Michael Foster (actor)
41 - Jessica Heap (actress)
47 - Jason Marsalis (musician)
53 - Jason Sellers (singer)
54 - Nick Stabile (actor)
54 - Andrea Bendewald (actress)
56 - Patsy Kensit (actress)
63 - Steven Weber (actor)
66 - Patricia Heaton (actress)
70 - Catherine O'Hara (actress)
71 - Emilio Estefan (singer)
71 - Kay Lenz (actress)
73 - Chris Rea (singer)
86 - 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, $70,000-per-year contract with the New York Yankees.
1967 - American Peggy Fleming wins the ladies world figure skating championship.
1970 - Jacksonville becomes the first college basketball team to average 100+ points per game.
1970 - The New York Rangers set an NHL record of 126 games without being shutout.
1981 - Guy LaFleur (Montreal Canadiens) scored his 1000th career point.
1989 - Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor becomes the first man to clear 8-feet in the high jump.
1993 - ESPN formed "The V Foundation" with Jim Valvano.
1993 - The first ESPY Awards ceremony was held.
1789 - The U.S. Constitution went into effect as the first Congress met in New York.
1791 - Vermont became the 14th state.
1861 - Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the nation's 16th president.
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, with firmness in the fight as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
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 took the oath of office for a second term in office. (Since March 4 was on 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 32nd president of the United States.
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 City.
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.
2012 - Vladimir Putin scored a decisive victory in Russia’s presidential election to return to the Kremlin and extend his hold on power.
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.
2017 - President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of tapping his telephones during the 2016 election; an Obama spokesman declared that the assertion was “simply false.”
2020 - Federal health officials investigated a suburban Seattle nursing home at the center of a coronavirus outbreak.
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
31 - Jenna Boyd (actress)
34 - Andrea Bowen (actress)
34 - Draymond Green (basketball player)
36 - Josh Bowman (actor)
37 - Tamzin Merchant (actress)
38 - Margo Harshman (actress)
38 - Audrey Esparza (actress)
38 - Park Min-young (actress)
39 - Whitney Port (TV personality)
39 - Scott Michael Foster (actor)
41 - Jessica Heap (actress)
47 - Jason Marsalis (musician)
53 - Jason Sellers (singer)
54 - Nick Stabile (actor)
54 - Andrea Bendewald (actress)
56 - Patsy Kensit (actress)
63 - Steven Weber (actor)
66 - Patricia Heaton (actress)
70 - Catherine O'Hara (actress)
71 - Emilio Estefan (singer)
71 - Kay Lenz (actress)
73 - Chris Rea (singer)
86 - Paula Prentiss (actress)
=====================================
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, $70,000-per-year contract with the New York Yankees.
1967 - American Peggy Fleming wins the ladies world figure skating championship.
1970 - Jacksonville becomes the first college basketball team to average 100+ points per game.
1970 - The New York Rangers set an NHL record of 126 games without being shutout.
1981 - Guy LaFleur (Montreal Canadiens) scored his 1000th career point.
1989 - Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor becomes the first man to clear 8-feet in the high jump.
1993 - ESPN formed "The V Foundation" with Jim Valvano.
1993 - The first ESPY Awards ceremony was held.
