Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 4
This is a list of selected March 4 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Ineligible
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| 1789 – As per the Constitution, the U.S. Congress officially replaced the Congress of the Confederation as the legislative body of the federal government. | refimprove section |
| 1877 – Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake debuted at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. | refimprove section |
| 1982 – Bertha Wilson became the first female Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 306 – Roman Herculian guard Adrian of Nicomedia, who had converted to Christianity after being impressed with the faith of Christians that he had been torturing, was martyred.
- 856 – Trpimir I, founder of the Trpimirović dynasty of Croatia, issued a document that contained the first known usage of the name "Croats".
- 1386 – Grand Duke of Lithuania Jogaila was crowned Władysław II Jagiełło, King of Poland, beginning the Jagiellonian dynasty.
- 1675 – John Flamsteed was appointed as the first Astronomer Royal of England.
- 1681 – King Charles II of England granted Quaker William Penn a charter for the Pennsylvania Colony.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Using artillery transported from Ticonderoga, the Continental Army occupied Dorchester Heights, forcing the British to abandon Boston two weeks later.
- 1804 – Irish convicts who were involved at the Battle of Vinegar Hill during the 1798 Irish Rebellion began an uprising against British colonial authorities in New South Wales, Australia.
- 1814 – War of 1812: An American raiding party defeated an attempt by British regulars, volunteers from the Canadian militia and Native Americans to intercept them near present-day Wardville, Ontario.
- 1824 – The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, a charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the British Isles, was founded as the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck by author and philanthropist William Hillary.
- 1837 – After its population increased in seven years to from 200 to over 4,000, Chicago, Illinois, was incorporated.
- 1899 – Cyclone Mahina struck Bathurst Bay, Queensland, killing over 300 people in the deadliest natural disaster in Australian history.
- 1918 – The United States Navy suffered its largest non-combat loss of life when the collier USS Cyclops set sail from Barbados to Baltimore and was never seen again, presumably disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle.
- 1918 – The first known case of the so-called "Spanish flu" was first observed at Fort Riley, Kansas.
- 1933 – Frances Perkins was appointed United States Secretary of Labor, making her the first female member of the Cabinet.
- 1933 – All three presidents of the Austrian National Council resigned, and Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss later used that pretext to create an authoritarian government.
- 1941 – Second World War: British Commandos successfully executed Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands of Norway.
- 1944 – Murder, Inc. leader Lepke Buchalter was executed, becoming the only American mob boss to receive the death penalty after being convicted of murder.
- 1987 – U.S. president Ronald Reagan made a nationally televised address in which he accepted full responsibility for illegal actions in the Iran–Contra affair.
- 2012 – A series of blasts occurred at an arms dump in Brazzaville, Congo, killing at least 250 people, injuring 2,300 others, and leaving more than 13,800 people homeless.
- 2007 – Fourteen-year-old English schoolgirl Charlotte Shaw drowned on Dartmoor, becoming the first person to die in connection with the annual Ten Tors challenge.
- 2009 – The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity regarding his actions during the War in Darfur.
- Born/died: Hindal Mirza (b. 1519) · Jack Sheppard (b. 1702) · Mariano Moreno (d. 1811) · Edwards Pierrepont (b. 1817) · Miriam Makeba (b. 1932) · Harold Barrowclough (d. 1972) · Bobbi Kristina Brown (b. 1993) · Izaak Kolthoff (d. 1993)
March 4: Feast day of Saint Casimir (Catholicism)
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- 1461 – Wars of the Roses: Henry VI, the Lancastrian king of England, was deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who succeeded him as Edward IV.
- 1890 – The Forth Bridge (pictured), a railway bridge connecting Edinburgh to Fife over the Firth of Forth, opened, eventually becoming an internationally recognised Scottish landmark.
- 1966 – During an interview, John Lennon of the Beatles argued that the band had become "more popular than Jesus".
- 1990 – College basketball player Hank Gathers died after collapsing during a West Coast Conference Tournament semifinal game in Los Angeles.
Hans von Aachen (d. 1615) · Paul Lacôme (b. 1838) · Gary Gygax (d. 2008)