History Events on March 04

Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.

#Jeannette_Rankin

People magazine is published for the first time in the United States as People Weekly.

#People_(magazine)

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.

#War_in_Afghanistan_(2001-present)

Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.

#Vermont

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.

#LGBT_rights_in_the_United_States

The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII.

#Forth_Bridge

In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect. The United States Bill of Rights is written and proposed to Congress.

#1st_United_States_Congress

Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany.

#Frederick_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor

John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.

#John_Flamsteed

Cyril VI of Constantinople is elected Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

#Cyril_VI_of_Constantinople

At least 34 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in the rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine.

#2015_Zasyadko_mine_disaster

The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.

#Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America

World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the south-west Pacific comes to an end.

#Battle_of_the_Bismarck_Sea

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.

#International_Criminal_Court

First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.

#First_Balkan_War

Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.

#William_Penn

American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.

#American_Revolutionary_War

Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his House of York cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.

#Wars_of_the_Roses

The Battle of the Sit River is 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 Rus'.

#Battle_of_the_Sit_River

English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

#Charles_II_of_England

World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, begins. It ends on 6 March with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion and the liberation of the town of Grevena.

#Battle_of_Fardykambos

A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.

#Canadian_Pacific_Air_Lines

A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin (USA) causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.

#Weyauwega,_Wisconsin,_derailment

The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted.

#Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America

Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what are now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.

#Christopher_Columbus

The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.

#Collinwood_school_fire

Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.

#Relic

Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).

#Nero

The United States Department of Labor is formed.

#United_States_Department_of_Labor

The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.

#Eleventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

W?adys?aw II Jagie??o (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.

#W?adys?aw_II_Jagie??o

The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in Bucharest, Romania.

#1977_Vrancea_earthquake

John Adams is inaugurated as the 2nd President of the United States of America, becoming the first President to begin his presidency on March 4.

#John_Adams

A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 – the worst crash of a DC-7.

#Caledonian_Airways

World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands; the first large scale British Commando raid.

#World_War_II

The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.

#Food_and_Drug_Administration

The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.

#Massachusetts_Bay_Colony

The city of Chicago is incorporated.

#Chicago

A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people.

#Brazzaville_arms_dump_blasts

French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.

#French_submarine_Eurydice_(S644)

The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.

#Northern_Ireland_Constitutional_Convention

Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.

#Hernán_Cortés

The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.

#Soviet_Union

Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.

#Castle_Hill_convict_rebellion

Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.

#Robert_Mugabe

Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.

#Frances_Perkins

Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.

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.

In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now".

The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba, killing 100.

The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.

World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.

The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.

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.

Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.

Britain's first electric trams run in east London.

President-Elect Zachary Taylor and Vice President-Elect Millard Fillmore did not take their respective Oath's of office, leading to the theory that outgoing President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate David Rice Atchison assumed the role of Acting President of the United States for one day.

Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia.

Americans defeat British forces at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.

The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).

France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.

Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.

Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.

Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.