WillDekkard
03-05-2010, 05:18 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- March 4th
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# 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.
# 1908 The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
# 1911 Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes the first socialist congressman in U.S..
# 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. The victory of the February Revolution.
# 1918 The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
# 1925 Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.
# 1929 Charles Curtis becomes the first native-American Vice President of the United States.
# 1930 Floods hit Languedoc and the surrounding area in south-west France, resulting in twelve dιpartements being submerged 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 salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
# 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.
# 1944 World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
# 1945 In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service as a driver.
# 1945 Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
# 1954 Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant.
# 1957 The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
# 1960 French freighter 'La Coubre' explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100. Fidel Castro blames the U.S.
# 1962 The United States Atomic Energy Commission announces that the first atomic power plant at McMurdo Station in Antarctica is in operation.
# 1966 Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
# 1970 French submarine Eurydice explodes.
# 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.
# 1976 The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.
# 1977 The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
# 1980 Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
# 1982 NASA launches the Intelsat V-508 satellite.
# 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, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
# 1986 The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Comet Halley and the first images ever of its nucleus.
# 1990 Loyola Marymount University, All-American basketball player Hank Gathers dies on the court of a heart attack during a conference semifinal game.
# 1991 Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.
# 1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16) launches into orbit.
# 1994 Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign an agreement to form a federation in a loose economic union with Croatia.
# 1997 U.S. President Bill Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.
# 1998 Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: 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 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 1 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 Canada bans human cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
# 2002 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.
# 2005 The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers after it runs a roadblock in Iraq, causing the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers.
# 2005 The United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by the HIV virus in the future if further action is not take against the spread of the disease.
# 2006 No response is received in the final attempt to contact Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network.
# 2007 Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
# 2009 The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
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- March 4th
c/p from Wikipedia
# 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.
# 1908 The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
# 1911 Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes the first socialist congressman in U.S..
# 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. The victory of the February Revolution.
# 1918 The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
# 1925 Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.
# 1929 Charles Curtis becomes the first native-American Vice President of the United States.
# 1930 Floods hit Languedoc and the surrounding area in south-west France, resulting in twelve dιpartements being submerged 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 salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
# 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.
# 1944 World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
# 1945 In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service as a driver.
# 1945 Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
# 1954 Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant.
# 1957 The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
# 1960 French freighter 'La Coubre' explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100. Fidel Castro blames the U.S.
# 1962 The United States Atomic Energy Commission announces that the first atomic power plant at McMurdo Station in Antarctica is in operation.
# 1966 Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
# 1970 French submarine Eurydice explodes.
# 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.
# 1976 The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.
# 1977 The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
# 1980 Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
# 1982 NASA launches the Intelsat V-508 satellite.
# 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, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
# 1986 The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Comet Halley and the first images ever of its nucleus.
# 1990 Loyola Marymount University, All-American basketball player Hank Gathers dies on the court of a heart attack during a conference semifinal game.
# 1991 Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.
# 1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16) launches into orbit.
# 1994 Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign an agreement to form a federation in a loose economic union with Croatia.
# 1997 U.S. President Bill Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.
# 1998 Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: 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 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 1 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 Canada bans human cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
# 2002 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.
# 2005 The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers after it runs a roadblock in Iraq, causing the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers.
# 2005 The United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by the HIV virus in the future if further action is not take against the spread of the disease.
# 2006 No response is received in the final attempt to contact Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network.
# 2007 Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
# 2009 The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
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