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March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). There are 302 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
- 4.1 Liturgical feasts
5 External links

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51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
303 or 304 - Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
852 - Croatian Duke Trpimir I issued a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
1152 - Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
1215 - King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III.
1238 - The Battle of the Sit River was fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
1275 - Chinese astronomers observe a total eclipse of the sun.
1351 - Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 - Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) was crowned King of Poland.
1461 - Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
1492 - King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England.
1493 - Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives in America aboard his ship Niña.
1519 - Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.
1570 - King Philip II of Spain bans foreign Dutch students.
1611 - George Abbot is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
1621 - Jakarta, Java is renamed Batavia.
1629 - Massachusetts Bay Colony, which had the role of colonizing the Americas, is granted a Royal charter.
1634 - Samuel Cole opens the first tavern in Boston, Massachusetts.
1665 - English King Charles II declares war on The Netherlands which marked the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1675 - John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal of England.
1681 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
1774 - First sighting of Orion Nebula by William Herschel.
1776 - The American War of Independence: The Americans capture "Dorchester Heights" dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts.
1778 - The Continental Congress voted to ratify both the and Commerce">Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance with France. The two treaties were the first entered into by the United States government.
1789 - In New York City, the first U.S. Congress meets and declares the new Constitution of the United States is in effect.
1790 - France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.
1791 - Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state.
1791 - A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
1792 - Oranges were introduced into Hawaii.
1793 - French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands.
1794 - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. The Amendment limited the jurisdiction of the federal courts to automatically hear cases brought against a state by the citizens of another state. Later interpretations expanded this to include citizens of the state being sued, as well.
1804 - The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia). [1]
1804 - The and Foreign Bible Society">British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) was founded at a large interdenominational meeting in London.
1813 - Russian troops fighting the army of Napoleon reach Berlin in Germany and the French garrison evacuate the city without a fight.
1814 - Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London and Thamesville near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
1824 - The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" was founded in the United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858.
1837 - Chicago is granted a city charter by Illinois.
1848 - Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
1849 - Zachary Taylor refuses to be sworn in office as 12th President of the United States on a Sabbath (Sunday). Urban legend instead holds that the office of President of the United States is vacant for a single day and that David Rice Atchison, President pro tempore of the United States Senate was President de jure that day. However, Taylor was president despite not taking the oath.
1853 - Pope Pius IX recovers Roman Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands.
1853 - an oncoming mail train shatters the rear car of a stalled Pennsylvania Railroad emigrant train in the Allegheny Mountains near Mount Union, Pennsylvania, killing seven. This was the highest single U.S. accident toll up to this time.
1859 - Charter of the French Opera House in New Orleans is granted, which opens on December 1 of the same year with a gala performance of Rossini's "William Tell".
1861 - President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office.
1861 - Confederate States adopt " and Bars">Stars and Bars" flag, on the same day that Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as 16th President of the United States.
1863 - Territory of Idaho established.
1877 - Emile Berliner invents the microphone.
1877 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake debuts.
1880 - New York Daily Graphic publishes the first half-tone engraving.
1882 - Britain's first electric trams ran in East London.
1885 - Gilbert & Sullivan's opera The Mikado premieres in London.
1887 - Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile which he test runs in Esslingen and Cannstatt, Germany.
1887 - 23-year-old William Randolph Hearst buys the San Francisco Examiner, and starts to build the Hearst newspaper empire.
1890 - The longest bridge in the United Kingdom, the Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in Scotland is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII. [2]
1893 - Congo Free State: The army of Francis, Baron Dhanis attacks the Lualaba, enabling him to transport his troops across the Upper Congo and, capture Nyangwe almost without an effort.
1894 - Great fire in Shanghai. Over 1,000 buildings are destroyed.
1895 - Premiere of Gustav Mahler's second symphony in Berlin.
1899 - Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.
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.
1905 - Gerhart Hauptmann's 'Elga' premieres in Berlin.
1907 - Louis Botha is appointed Prime Minister of the Transvaal, South Africa.
1908 - The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
1909 - President William Taft approves Congressional Gold Medals for the Wright brothers.
1911 - Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes the first socialist congressman in U.S..
1913 - The United States Department of Commerce and United States Department of Labor are established by splitting the duties of the 10-year-old and Labor">Department of Commerce and Labor.
1913 - First U.S. law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed.
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.
1921 - Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas.
1921 - E. M. Forster sets out on a passage to India to assume his duties as secretary to the Maharaja of the state of Dewas Senior.
1923 - Lenin's last article about Red bureaucracy was published in Pravda.
1924 - The song 'Happy Birthday To You' is published by Clayton F. Summy.
1925 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.
1926 - The government of Dirk Jan de Geer takes office in The Netherlands.
1929 - Charles Curtis becomes the first native-American Vice President.
1930 - Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.
1930 - Blaze levels hangar at Atlanta Airport, destroying twenty aircraft
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 that salt is freely used by the poorest layers of the population.
1933 - Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, first female member of the United States Cabinet.
1933 - Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
1933 - The 32nd President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, outlines his "New Deal" in his inauguration speech.
1933 - The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure - Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates authoritarian rule by decree (see Austrofascism).
1936 - First flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany.
1941 - The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II.
1941 - Adolf Hitler applies pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite Pact.
1944 - First U.S. bombing of Berlin and Anti-Germany strikes in northern Italy.
1944 - In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing.
1945 - In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Army as a driver.
1945 - Lapland War: Finland declares war on nazi-Germany.
1946 - The Voice Of Frank Sinatra, the first Frank Sinatra album ever, is released by Columbia Records.
1946 - C.G.E. Mannerheim resigns from the post of President of Finland.
1946 - The United States, France and the United Kingdom launch a call with the Spaniards in favour of the inversion of the pro-Franco mode.
1948 - The first American civilian (Herbert Henry Hoover) flies at supersonic speeds in Bell X-1 in Muroc, California.
1949 - Security Council of United Nations recommends membership for Israel.
1950 - U.S. Premiere of Walt Disney's animated film Cinderella.
1952 - Ernest Hemingway completes his short novel and the Sea">The Old Man and the Sea.
1952 - Ronald Reagan marries his second wife Nancy Davis in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.
1954 - Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant.
1954 - U.S. warns Latin America against international communism.
1955 - First radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent of America.
1957 - The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1959 - U.S. Pioneer IV misses Moon and becomes the second (U.S. first) artificial planet.
1960 - French freighter 'La Coubre' explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100. Fidel Castro blames the U.S.
1962 - United States Atomic Energy Commission announces that the first atomic power plant at McMurdo Station in Antarctica is in operation.
1963 - In Paris six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle.
1964 - Jimmy Hoffa, President of the Teamsters, is convicted by a Federal jury of tampering with a Federal jury.
1966 - John Lennon says The Beatles are "more popular than Jesus" which sparks controversy in the United States.
1966 - Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, killing 64 people.
1967 - Queens Park Rangers win the League Cup Final at Wembley Stadium beating West Bromwich Albion.
1967 - The first North Sea gas is pumped ashore at Easington, County Durham by BP (British Petroleum).
1969 - The Kray twins, Ronald and Reginald, face life sentences after being found guilty of the murder of Jack McVitie at the Central Criminal Court.
1970 - French submarine Eurydice explodes.
1971 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau marries Margaret Sinclair in St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church, Vancouver and becomes the first Prime Minister of Canada to marry while in office. The couple divorced in 1984.
1972 - A Libyan-Soviet accord is agreed for the development of Libyan oil reserves.
1974 - Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister following the resignation of his predecessor Edward Heath.
1975 - Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of England.
1975 - First television coverage of a Canadian parliamentary committee.
1976 - The Maguire Seven were found guilty of the offence of possessing explosives and were subsequently jailed for 14 years.
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.
1977 - The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
1977 - First Cray-1 supercomputer shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.
1978 - Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes its last issue.
1979 - U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings.
1979 - The Ugandan capital of Kampala is threatened by invading Tanzanian forces.
1980 - Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
1982 - NASA launches "Intelsat V".
1985 - The and Drug Administration">Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
1986 - Launch of the UK's Today tabloid newspaper (now defunct), pioneering the use of computer photosetting and full-colour offset printing at a time when British national newspapers were still using Linotype machines and letterpress.
1987 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan addressed the American nation on the Iran-Contra Affair, acknowledging his overtures to Iran had “deteriorated” into an arms-for-hostages deal.
1988 - Building of the Louvre Pyramid begins at the Napoleon court of the Louvre, in Paris, France.
1989 - Six people die and 80 are injured, some of them seriously, at the Purley Station rail crash in Surrey, England.
1989 - Time, Inc. and Warner Communications announce plans for a merger forming Time-Warner.
1990 - Space Shuttle program: STS-36 (Space Shuttle Atlantis) U.S. 65th manned space mission returns from space.
1991 - Most primitive form of World Wide Web is put online. ^{[citation needed]}
1991 - and Commerce International">Bank of Credit and Commerce International divests itself of First American National Bank.
1991 - The Soviet parliament in Moscow, Russia ratifies a six-nation treaty on German unification.
1991 - In Iraq, Saddam Hussein releases 6 U.S., 3 British and 1 Italian prisoners of war.
1991 - Sheik Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returned to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.
1993 - Authorities announce the capture of suspected World Trade Center bombing conspirator Mohammad Salameh.
1994 - Four terrorists are convicted for their roles in the World Trade Center bombing which killed six and injured more than a thousand.
1994 - and Herzegovina">Bosnia's Croats and Moslems signed an agreement to form a federation in a loose economic union with Croatia.
1995 - Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec).
1995 - George Foreman loses World Boxing Association boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker.
1996 - A train carrying propane and sodium hydroxide derails in Weyauwega, Wisconsin and catches fire. 2,200 homes near the accident site are evacuated for 16 days.
1996 - Comet Hyakutake was imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter NEAR, (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous).
1997 - US President Bill Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.
1997 - In London, the match-fixing trial of footballers Bruce Grobbelaar, John Fashanu and Hans Segers ends in deadlock with the jury failing to reach verdicts.
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp flies directly above the Sun (1.04 AU).
1998 - Gay rights: 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.
1998 - Government, naval and university computers running Windows NT across the United States crash as a result of a hacker. The crash affects computers running at MIT, Northwestern University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of California campuses at Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Diego.
1999 - In a military court, Captain Richard Ashby of the United States Marines is acquitted of the charge of reckless flying which resulted in the deaths of 20 skiers in the Italian Alps when his low-flying jet hit a gondola cable.
2001 - A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA. See also 4 March 2001 BBC bombing.
2001 - U.S. Attack on 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.
2001 - Swiss referendum overwhelmingly rejects a proposal for immediate membership talks with the European Union.
2001 - Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
2002 - Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
2002 - The moderate leader albanophone Ibrahim Rugova is elected President of Kosovo by the Parliament of the Serb province that had been under international control since 1999.
2003 - In the southern Philippines, a bomb hidden in a backpack explodes and kills 21 people at an airport in Davao City.
2003 - In the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, at least 9 people are killed and 52 are injured when a bus falls into a deep gorge.
2004 - The guilty verdict for Moroccan al-Qaeda suspect Mounir el Motassadeq's involvement in the September 11, 2001 attacks is overturned by the German appeals court, which orders a retrial.
2004 - The files of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun are released to the public five years after his death.
2005 - The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of one passenger and injuring two more.
2005 - United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by the HIV virus in the future without further action against the spread of the disease.
2006 - A new species of shark, Mustelus hacat, is discovered in Mexico's Sea of Cortez, bringing the number of Mustelus species found in the eastern North Pacific to 5.
2006 - The central Papeete power station is damaged by a fire, resulting in limited power for some areas of Tahiti for a couple of weeks.
2006 - Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response was received.
2006 - Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway was christened by Bishop Ole Christian Kvarme at the chapel inside The Royal Palace in Oslo.

[edit] Births

1188 - Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252)
1394 - Henry the Navigator (d. 1460)
1492 - Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer (d. c.1540)
1651 - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (d. 1716)
1665 - Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694)
1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
1719 - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777)
1745 - Charles Dibdin, English composer (d.1814)
1747 - Kazimierz Pułaski, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1779)
1756 - Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823)
1781 - Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)
1782 - Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist (d. 1830)
1792 - Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
1793 - Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
1819 - Charles Oberthur, German-born harpist (d. 1895)
1822 - Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880)
1826 - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
1835 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)
1847 - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
1854 - Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945)
1856 - Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)
1859 - Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1905)
1862 - Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
1864 - David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (d. 1940)
1870 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944)
1871 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
1876 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)
1877 - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, Russian composer (d. 1957)
1877 - Garrett Morgan, American inventor (d. 1963)
1877 - Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)
1881 - Maude Fealy, American actor (d. 1971)
1881 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d. 1948)
1881 - Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (d. 1965)
1883 - Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (d. 1956)
1888 - Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (d. 1931)
1889 - Pearl White, American actress (d. 1938)
1889 - Oren E. Long, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawai'i (d. 1965)
1895 - Shemp Howard, American comedian, Three Stooges (d. 1955)
1895 - Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian violinist (d. 1978)
1895 - Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (d. 1953)
1897 - Lefty O'Doul, baseball player (d. 1969)
1898 - Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1940)
1900 - Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
1901 - Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet (d. 1937)
1901 - Charles Goren, American bridge player and writer (d. 1991)
1903 - William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
1903 - Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish statesman (d. 1973)
1903 - Dorothy Mackaill, British-born actress (d. 1990)
1903 - John Scarne, American magician (d. 1985)
1904 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (d. 1968)
1906 - Meindert DeJong American author (d. 1991)
1906 - Charles Rudolph Walgreen, American businessman
1908 - T.R.M. Howard, American civil rights leader (d. 1976)
1909 - Harry Helmsley, American real estate entrepreneur(d. 1997)
1912 - Judith Furse, British character actress (d. 1974)
1912 - Carl Marzani, American documentarian (d. 1994)
1912 - Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d. 1976)
1913 - John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
1914 - Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
1914 - Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor and architect (d. 2000)
1915 - Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (d. 1997)
1916 - Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (d. 2000)
1916 - Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist (d. 1997)
1918 - Margaret Osborne duPont, former American female tennis player
1920 - Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993)
1920 - Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002)
1921 - Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born composer
1921 - Joan Greenwood, English actress (d. 1987)
1921 - Wilson Harris, Guyanese writer
1922 - Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer and film director (d. 2005)
1923 - Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer
1925 - Paul Mauriat, French musician (d. 2006)
1926 - Fran Warren, American singer
1926 - Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway
1927 - Thayer David, American actor (d. 1978)
1927 - Robert Orben, American magician
1927 - Philip Batt, 29th Governor of the U.S. state of Idaho
1928 - Alan Sillitoe, English writer
1928 - Samuel Adler, American composer
1929 - Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor
1929 - Josep Mestres Quadreny, Catalan composer
1931 - Alice Rivlin, American economist
1931 - William Henry Keeler, American Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal
1932 - Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist
1932 - Miriam Makeba, South African singer
1932 - Ed Roth, American car designer (d. 2001)
1932 - Frank Wells, American entertainment businessman (d. 1994)
1934 - Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist
1934 - Mario Davidovsky, Argentinian composer
1934 - John Duffey, bluegrass musician (d. 1996)
1934 - Anne Haney, American actress (d. 2001)
1935 - Bent Larsen, Danish chess player
1936 - Jim Clark Scottish race car driver (d. 1968)
1936 - David Thompson, British food magnate
1936 - Aribert Reimann, German composer
1937 - Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer
1937 - Leslie Gelb, American foreign policy advisor
1937 - Yuri Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003)
1938 - Don Perkins, American football player
1938 - Angus MacLise, American percussionist (d. 1979)
1939 - Paula Prentiss, American actress
1941 - Adrian Lyne, English film director
1941 - John Aprea, American actor
1942 - Charles C. Krulak, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
1943 - Zoltan Jeney, Hungarian composer
1943 - Lucio Dalla, Italian singer and songwriter
1944 - Bobby Womack, American singer
1944 - Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and race car designer (d. 1999)
1945 - Dieter Meier, Swiss singer
1945 - Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager
1945 - Gary Williams, American basketball coach
1946 - Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker
1946 - Harvey Goldsmith, British impresario
1946 - Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur
1947 - Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
1947 - David Franzoni, American screenwriter
1948 - Chris Squire, British bassist
1948 - Shakin' Stevens, Welsh musician
1948 - James Ellroy, American writer
1948 - Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author
1948 - Tom Grieve, baseball player
1948 - Leron Lee, baseball player
1950 - Rick Perry, Governor of Texas
1950 - Rafael Canizares Poey, Olympic Cuban basketball player
1951 - Kenny Dalglish Scottish footballer and manager
1951 - Chris Rea, British singer
1952 - Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
1952 - Ronn Moss, American actor
1952 - Scott Hicks, Ugandan-born movie director
1953 - Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussianist
1953 - Kay Lenz, American actress
1954 - Willie Thorne, English snooker player
1954 - Adrian Zmed, American actor and dancer
1954 - Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress
1954 - Peter Jacobsen, American professional golfer
1954 - Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer
1955 - Dominique Pinon, French actor
1957 - Rick Mast, former American NASCAR driver
1958 - Patricia Heaton, American actress
1958 - Lennie Lee, British artist
1960 - Mykelti Williamson, American actor
1960 - Mikko Kuustonen, Finnish singer and songwriter
1960 - John Mugabi, former Ugandan boxer and world Jr. Middleweight champion
1961 - Ray Mancini, American boxer
1961 - Steven Weber (actor), American actor
1961 - Roger Wessels, South African golfer
1962 - Lolo Ferrari, French actress (d. 2000)
1962 - Simon Bisley, British comic book artist
1963 - Daniel Roebuck, American actor
1963 - Jason Newsted, American bassist
1964 - Tom Lampkin, baseball player
1965 - Stacy Edwards, American actress
1965 - Gary Helms, American kickboxer
1965 - Paul W.S. Anderson, British filmmaker
1966 - Daniela Amavia, American actress and international model
1966 - Kevin Johnson, American basketball player
1966 - Grand Puba, American rapper
1966 - Dav Pilkey, American author
1966 - Steve Bastoni, Italian Australian actor
1967 - Evan Dando, American musician
1967 - Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer
1968 - Patsy Kensit, English actress
1969 - Chastity Bono, American actress and advocate of gay rights
1969 - Patrick Roach, Canadian actor
1969 - Annie Shizuka Inoh, Taiwanese actress
1971 - Fergal Lawler, Irish drummer
1971 - Nick Stabile, American actor
1972 - Ivy Queen, American composer and singer
1972 - Jos Verstappen, Dutch race car driver
1972 - Pae Gil-Su, North Korean gymnast
1973 - Len Wiseman, American director
1974 - Karol Kučera, Slovakian tennis player
1974 - Edward Hancock II, American author
1974 - Ariel Ortega, Argentine football player
1975 - Myrna Veenstra, Dutch field hockey player
1976 - Vic Wunderle, American archer
1977 - Jason Marsalis, American musician
1977 - Daniel Klewer, German footballer
1977 - Ana Guevara, Mexican track and field athlete
1978 - Rachel Roberts (model), Canadian model and actress
1978 - Denis Dallan, Italian rugby union footballer
1979 - Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer
1982 - Landon Donovan, American soccer player
1984 - Zak Whitbread, American footballer
1986 - Margo Harshman, American actress
1990 - Andrea Bowen, American actress
1992 - Jazmin Grace Rotolo, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
1993 - Jenna Boyd, American actress

[edit] Deaths

561 - Pope Pelagius I (b. ?)
1172 - Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147).
1193 - Saladin, Turkish sultan (b. 1137)
1238 - Joan of England, wife of Alexander II (b. 1210)
1238 - Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1189)
1484 - Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
1496 - Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)
1583 - Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, "Apostle of the North" (b. 1517)
1604 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539)
1615 - Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
1619 - Anne of Denmark, wife of James I (b. 1574)
1710 - Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)
1733 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656)
1793 - Louis de Bourbon, French admiral (b. 1725)
1795 - John Collins, American politician (b. 1717)
1805 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
1807 - Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
1832 - Jean-François Champollion, French scholar (b. 1790)
1852 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
1853 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b. 1774)
1858 - Matthew Perry, U.S. naval officer (b. 1794)
1864 - Thomas Starr King, influential Californian Unitarian minister during the American Civil War (b. 1824)
1866 - Alexander Campbell (Restoration movement), Irish founder of the Disciples of Christ (b. 1788)
1868 - Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
1872 - Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
1883 - Alexander Hamilton Stephens, former Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1812)
1888 - Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher (b. 1799)
1903 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1834)
1906 - John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831)
1910 - Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
1915 - William Willett, Inventor of Daylight Saving Time (b. 1856)
1916 - Franz Marc, German artist (b. 1880)
1922 - Bert Williams, American entertainer (b. 1874)
1925 - Monte Ward, baseball player (b. 1860)
1925 - Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (b. 1854)
1925 - James Ward (psychologist), English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
1927 - Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846)
1938 - George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852)
1940 - Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860)
1941 - Ludwig Quidde, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1858)
1944 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster
1944 - Fannie Barrier Williams, African American educator and political activist (b. 1855)
1945 - Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer (b. 1900)
1946 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886)
1948 - Antonin Artaud, French actor/director (b. 1896)
1952 - Charles Scott Sherrington, or Medicine">Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
1954 - Noel Gay, English composer, (b. 1898)
1959 - Maxey Long, American athlete, (b. 1878)
1960 - Leonard Warren, American baritone (b. 1911)
1960 - Herbert O'Conor, 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland (b. 1896)
1963 - William Carlos Williams, American poet (b. 1883)
1967 - José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1873)
1969 - Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)
1974 - Adolph Gottlieb, American painter (b. 1903)
1976 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
1977 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (b. 1887)
1977 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
1978 - Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909)
1979 - Willi Unsoeld, American mountain climber (b. 1926)
1984 - Ernest Buckler, Canadian novelist (b. 1908)
1986 - Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (b. 1943)
1986 - Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
1990 - Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967)
1992 - Art Babbitt, animator (b. 1907)
1994 - John Candy, Canadian comedian (b. 1950)
1995 - Eden Ahbez, American composer (b. 1908)
1996 - Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b. 1912)
1997 - Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (b. 1916)
1997 - Carey Loftin, American actor/stuntman (b. 1914)
1999 - Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1908)
1999 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
1999 - Del Close, American actor (b. 1934)
2001 - Glenn Hughes, American musician
2001 - Harold Stassen, American politician (b. 1907)
2001 - James Rhodes, twice former Governor of Ohio (b. 1909)
2001 - Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
2002 - Claire Davenport, British actress (b. 1933)
2002 - Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (b. 1913)
2002 - Eric Flynn, British actor/singer (b. 1939)
2003 - Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian bank robber (b. 1926)
2004 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (b. 1955)
2004 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
2004 - Stephen Sprouse, fashion designer (b. 1953)
2004 - George Pake, American physicist (b. 1924)
2005 - Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent (b. 1953)
2005 - Una Hale, Australian soprano (b. 1922)
2005 - Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman (b. 1951)
2005 - Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-born writer (b. 1934)
2006 - Roman Ogaza, Polish football player (b. 1952)
2006 - Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator/cartoonist (b. 1929)
2006 - John Reynolds Gardiner, American engineer (b. 1944)

[ and observances">edit] Holidays and observances

Wales - Feast day of Rhiannon, Celtic Moon Goddess.
Pennsylvania - Charter Day (1681).
Vermont - Admission Day (1791).
St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada - Charter Day (1881)
United States - Inauguration Day (1789 - 1933)

[edit] Liturgical feasts

Roman Catholicism - Feast day of Saint Casimir, patron saint of Lithuania.
Saint Adrian of Nicomedia, bishop of Saint Andrew's, and his Companions.
Saint Basil and his Companions.
Saint Efrem
Feast day of Humbert III of Savoy.
Feast day of Saint Placide Viel.
Saint Pierre de Cluny.
Saint Lucius I.
Saint Peter of Pappacarbone.
Roman Catholicism - Commemoration of Saint Lucius I, pope, martyr.

[edit] External links

March 3 - March 5 - February 4 - April 4 -- listing of all days


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