March 4
1789 - The U.S. Constitution was declared in effect as the first Federal Congress convened in New York.
1791 - Vermont became the 14th state.
1801 - Thomas Jefferson was sworn in as the third president of the United States and became the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
1861 - Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term of office; with the end of the Civil War in sight, and just six weeks before his assassination, 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 - Jeannette Rankin took her seat as the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
1933 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated for his first term as president; he was the last U.S. president to be inaugurated on this date. In his inaugural speech, Roosevelt stated, “the only thing we have to fear is…fear itself.”
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.
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.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that workplace sexual harassment laws are applicable when the offender and victim are of the same sex.
1999 - Retired Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun died in Arlington, Virginia at age 90.
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, which it called discriminatory and unconstitutional.
2017 - President Donald Trump wrote a series of Twitter posts accusing former President Barack Obama of tapping his telephones during the 2016 election; an Obama spokesman declared that the assertion was “simply false.”
Birthdays
35 - Draymond Green (basketball player)
64 - Steven Weber (actor)
67 - Patricia Heaton (actress)
71 - Catherine O'Hara (actress)
72 - Emilio Estefan (singer)
77 - James Ellroy (author)
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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 becomes the highest-paid player in baseball history, singing a three-year contract with the New York Yankees worth $70,000 per year.
1970 - The New York Rangers set an NHL record of 126 games without being shutout.
1970 - Jacksonville becomes the first college basketball team to average 100 points per game.
1993 - ESPN formed "The V Foundation" with Jim Valvano.
1995 - The WBA strips George Foreman of his heavyweight title after refusing to fight Tony Tucker.
1789 - The U.S. Constitution was declared in effect as the first Federal Congress convened in New York.
1791 - Vermont became the 14th state.
1801 - Thomas Jefferson was sworn in as the third president of the United States and became the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
1861 - Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term of office; with the end of the Civil War in sight, and just six weeks before his assassination, 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 - Jeannette Rankin took her seat as the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
1933 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated for his first term as president; he was the last U.S. president to be inaugurated on this date. In his inaugural speech, Roosevelt stated, “the only thing we have to fear is…fear itself.”
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.
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.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that workplace sexual harassment laws are applicable when the offender and victim are of the same sex.
1999 - Retired Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun died in Arlington, Virginia at age 90.
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, which it called discriminatory and unconstitutional.
2017 - President Donald Trump wrote a series of Twitter posts accusing former President Barack Obama of tapping his telephones during the 2016 election; an Obama spokesman declared that the assertion was “simply false.”
Birthdays
35 - Draymond Green (basketball player)
64 - Steven Weber (actor)
67 - Patricia Heaton (actress)
71 - Catherine O'Hara (actress)
72 - Emilio Estefan (singer)
77 - James Ellroy (author)
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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 becomes the highest-paid player in baseball history, singing a three-year contract with the New York Yankees worth $70,000 per year.
1970 - The New York Rangers set an NHL record of 126 games without being shutout.
1970 - Jacksonville becomes the first college basketball team to average 100 points per game.
1993 - ESPN formed "The V Foundation" with Jim Valvano.
1995 - The WBA strips George Foreman of his heavyweight title after refusing to fight Tony Tucker.
