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March 4 Historical Events

The following events took place on March 4. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 63 events. Showing 31 - 60.

  • 1908
    The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
  • 1909
    U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution’s Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State
  • 1913
    First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
  • 1913
    The United States Department of Labor is formed.
  • 1917
    Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
  • 1918
    The USS Cyclops departs from Barbados and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle.
  • 1933
    Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
  • 1933
    The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
  • 1941
    World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands; the first large scale British Commando raid.
  • 1943
    World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the south-west Pacific comes to an end.
  • 1944
    World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
  • 1945
    Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
  • 1957
    The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
  • 1960
    The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100.
  • 1962
    A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 – the worst crash of a DC-7.
  • 1966
    A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
  • 1970
    French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
  • 1974
    People magazine is published for the first time in the United States as People Weekly.
  • 1976
    The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
  • 1977
    The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in the seriously damaged city of Bucharest, Romania.
  • 1980
    Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe’s first black prime minister.
  • 1983
    Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
  • 1985
    The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
  • 1986
    The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley’s Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
  • 1991
    Sheikh Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq’s invasion.
  • 1996
    A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, US, causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
  • 1998
    Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: 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.
  • 2001
    BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
  • 2001
    Hintze Ribeiro disaster: A bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
  • 2002
    Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah-i-Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.

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