This day in history

Hologram · Post by **Hologram** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:14 am

March 4

1152-Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans
1461-Henry VI is deposed by Edward IV
1493-Christopher Colombus arrives in Lisbon, Portugal from his discovery of the Americas
1519-Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico
1629-Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter
1681-Charles II grants land charter to William Penn to settle Pennsylvania
1776-Americans capture "Dorchester Heights" dominating the Port of Boston
1778-Continental Congress ratifies Treaty of Amity and Commerce and Treaty of Alliance with France.
1789-First U.S. Congress meets in New York, putting the U.S. Constitution into effect.
1791-Vermont is admitted as the 14th state in the United States
1794-The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified
1797-John Adams succeeds George Washington as President of the United States, marking the first peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times
1837-Chicago is incorporated as a city
1861-First national flag of the Confederate States of America ("The Stars and Bars") is adopted
1865-The third (and last) national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1877-Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake premiers at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow
1894-Great fire in Shanghai, over 1,000 buildings destroyed
1902-American Automobile Association established in Chicago
1904-Russian troops in Korea retreat toward Manchuria followed by 100,000 Japanese troops
1911-Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes the first socialist congressman in U.S.
1917-Jeanette Rankin (Montana) becomes first female U.S. Congressman
1917-Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia's renunciation of the throne is made public and Tsar Alexander II publicly issues his abdication manifesto.
1925-Calvin Coolidge becomes the first U.S. President to have his inauguration broadcast on radio
1929-Charles Curtis becomes the first Native-American Vice-President
1933-Frances Perkins becomes U.S. Secretary of Labor, the first female U.S. Cabinet member.
1933-Bertha Wilson is appointed first female member of Canadian Supreme Court
1976-Northern Ireland Constitution is formerly dissolved, resulting in the direct rule of Northern Ireland from London via British Parliament.
1985-Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS
1997-U.S. President Bill Clinton bans federally funded cloning research.
1998-Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: U.S. Supreme Court rules that federal laws banning on the job sexual harassment also apply if both parties are the same sex.
2001-A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people.
2005-United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by HIV virus in the future without further action in preventing the spread of the disease.

muy_thaiguy · Post by **muy_thaiguy** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:32 am

History Channel.com eh?

ignotus · Post by **ignotus** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:32 am

wiki? is that you?

millej11 · Post by **millej11** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:42 am

2008 Brett Favre retires from the national football league

Hologram · Post by **Hologram** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:43 am

woo, ignotus got it. At least it wasn't a direct copy and paste.

Anyway, the highlights are the women's rights stuff in there. That and the Russian Revolution deposing Tsar Alexander II

muy_thaiguy · Post by **muy_thaiguy** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:05 am

Hologram wrote:woo, ignotus got it. At least it wasn't a direct copy and paste.

Anyway, the highlights are the women's rights stuff in there. That and the Russian Revolution deposing Tsar Alexander II

Women's rights? Wyoming was the first Territory (1869) and State (1890) to give women's sufferage.

Hologram · Post by **Hologram** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:08 am

muy_thaiguy wrote:
Hologram wrote:woo, ignotus got it. At least it wasn't a direct copy and paste.

Anyway, the highlights are the women's rights stuff in there. That and the Russian Revolution deposing Tsar Alexander II
Women's rights? Wyoming was the first Territory (1869) and State (1890) to give women's sufferage.

Notice that Jeanette Rankin was the first female U.S. Congressman. Then there's the first female Cabinet member, the first female member of the Canadian Supreme Court.