This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
03/04/1394 Henry the Navigator, Prince/sponsors Portuguese voyages of discovery

03/04/1492 Francesco de Layolle, composer 
03/04/1651 John Baron Somers, (Whig), William III's chief minister (1696-1700) 
03/04/1678 Antonio Vivaldi, Venice, Baroque violin virtuoso/composer (4 Seasons

03/04/1719 Aert Schouman, bird/portrait painter 
03/04/1742 Johann Heinrich Egli, composer 
03/04/1745 Charles Dibdin, composer 
03/04/1747 Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general 
03/04/1754 Benjamin Waterhouse, physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer) 
03/04/1754 Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer 
03/04/1757 Ignaz Malzat, composer 
03/04/1765 Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized

03/04/1766 Emanuel ADMJ, French historian (Napoleon) 
03/04/1773 Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer 
03/04/1782 Johann Wyss, Swiss folklorist/writer (Swiss Family Robinson) 
03/04/1789 Pavel P Gagarin, Russ monarch 
03/04/1798 John Joseph Abercrombie, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 18

03/04/1813 Wijnand YY Nuijen, romantic/water colors painter (Wrecked) 
03/04/1819 Charles Oberthur, composer 
03/04/1826 John Buford, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 
03/04/1828 Elisha Franklin 'Bull' Paxton, Brig General (Confederate Army) 
03/04/1834 Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer 
03/04/1835 Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italy, astronomer (discovered canals of Mars)

03/04/1838 Paul Lacome, composer 
03/04/1844 Josip Jurcic, Slavic writer (10th brother) 
03/04/1875 Enrique Larreta, [E R Maza], Argentine diplomat (Gloria de Don Ramir

03/04/1875 Suze [Suzanna] Groeneweg, 1st female paliament member (SDAP, 1918-37

03/04/1877 Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer 
03/04/1877 Dani‰l G van Beuningen, art collector 
03/04/1885 Willem H Winkel, physician/founder (Red Cross of Cura‡ao) 
03/04/1888 Knute Rockne, football player/coach (Notre Dame) 
03/04/1889 Pearl White [Victoria], US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline) 
03/04/1891 Dazzy Vance, hall of fame pitcher (led NL in strike-outs 7-yrs) 
03/04/1897 Francis 'Lefty' O'Doul, baseball player/organized Japanese baseball 
03/04/1900 Roberto Soundy, El Salvador, trap shooter (Olympic-1968) 
03/04/1901 Charles H Goren, bridge master 
03/04/1904 George Gamow, nuclear physicist/cosmologist/writer (1, 2, 3...ì) 
03/04/1905 Lili Kr…us, Budapest Hungary, pianist (Austrian Cross of Honor 1978)

03/04/1907 Edgar Barrier, actor (Cobra Woman, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered) 
03/04/1908 Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer [OS] 
03/04/1909 Harry Helmsley, NYC, billionaire builder (Empire State Building) 
03/04/1910 Tancredo Neves, president of Civil rights activist 
03/04/1912 Afro, [Basaldella], Italian painter 
03/04/1912 John Garfield, actor (Air Force, Destination: Tokyo, Juarez) 
03/04/1915 Carlos Surinach, composer 
03/04/1915 Eunice Catunda, composer 
03/04/1915 Petrus de Jong, Dutch premier (KVP, 1967-71) 
03/04/1916 Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (Botteghe oscure) 
03/04/1916 Hans Eysenck, psychologist 
03/04/1918 Margaret Osborne DuPont, Joseph Oregon, tennis pro (US Open 1948-50)

03/04/1921 Halim El-Dabh, composer 
03/04/1921 Joan Greenwood, London, actress/director (Amorous Mr Prawn) 
03/04/1923 Patrick Moore, England, astronomer/writer (A-Z of Astronomy) 
03/04/1923 Piero J d'Inzeo, France, equestrian show jumper (Olymp-gold-1952, 64

03/04/1927 Robert Di Domenica, composer 
03/04/1927 Thayer David, actor (Eiger Sanction, Rocky, Nero Wolfe, Savages) 
03/04/1928 Alan Sillitoe, Brit, writer (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner)

03/04/1928 Samuel Adler, composer 
03/04/1929 Bernard Haitink, Amsterdam Neth, conductor (London Phil Orch 1969-78

03/04/1929 Josep Mestres-Quadreny, composer 
03/04/1931 Gennady Rozhdestvensky, composer 
03/04/1931 Han Jansen, painter 
03/04/1932 Guido Baggiani, composer 
03/04/1932 Hessel Rienks, economist/Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA) 
03/04/1932 Miriam Makeba, South Africa, singer (Grammy 1965) 
03/04/1933 Ann Burton, [Anna Rafalowicz], singer 
03/04/1934 Barbara McNair, Racine Wisc, singer/actress (Barbara McNair Show) 
03/04/1934 Jane van Lawick-Goodall, ethologist/chimp expert (1974 Walker Prize)

03/04/1934 Mario Davidovsky, Buenos Aires Argentinia, composer (Synchronisms) 
03/04/1936 Aribert Reimann, composer 
03/04/1936 Jim Clark, race car driver (Indianapolis 500) 
03/04/1937 Graham Dowling, cricketeer (New Zealand) 
03/04/1939 Paula Prentiss [Ragusa], San Ant Tx, actress (Parallax View, He & Sh

03/04/1940 Kas Garas, Kaunas Lithuania, actor (Hamlyn-Strange Report) 
03/04/1941 Adrian Lyne, director (Fatal Attraction, 9« Weeks, Jacob's Ladder) 
03/04/1941 John Hancock, actor (Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights) 
03/04/1943 Zoltan Jeney, composer 
03/04/1944 Bobby Womack, Cleve, R&B singer/guitarist (Woman's Got to Have It) 
03/04/1945 Dieter Meier, Swiss singer/children book writer (Yello) 
03/04/1945 Jaime Tirelli, NYC, actor (Orlando Lopez-Ball Four) 
03/04/1946 Harvey Goldsmith, impresario 
03/04/1946 Ralph Kirshbaum, cellist 
03/04/1948 Billy Gibbons, rocker (ZZ Top-She Got Lets, Fandango) 
03/04/1948 Chris Squire, London, rock bassist (Yes-Fish Out of Water) 
03/04/1948 Shakin' Stevens, [Mike Barrett], rocker (You Drive Me Crazy) 
03/04/1950 Emilio Estefan, Cuba, rocker (Miami Sound Machine-1 2 3) 
03/04/1950 Kenny Dalglish, soccer manager 
03/04/1950 Rafael Canizares Poey, Alacs Mtnzs Cuba, basketballer (Oly-bronze-72

03/04/1951 Chris Rea, English rock guitarist (Fool If You Think It Is Over) 
03/04/1952 Ron Moss, actor (Hot Child in the City, Hard Ticket to Hawaii) 
03/04/1953 Christopher H Smith, (Rep-R-NJ, 1981-  ) 
03/04/1953 Kay Lenz, LA Calif, actress (Moving Violations, Rich Man Poor Man) 
03/04/1954 Catherine O'Hara, Toronto Ont, comedienne (Beetlejuice, SCTV) 
03/04/1955 Benny Alexander, sec-gen (S Afr Pan-Africanist Movement) 
03/04/1959 Kelly Lynch, Golden Walley Minn, actress (Warm Summer Rain) 
03/04/1960 Russell Todd, Troy NY, actor (Dr Jamie Frame-Another World) 
03/04/1961 Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini, boxer (killed a boxer in the ring) 
03/04/1963 Jason Newstedt, US heavy-metal bassist (Metallica-Kill 'em all) 
03/04/1963 MDV, [Michiel de Vos], pop bassist (Burma Shave-Stash) 
03/04/1964 Emilia Eberle, Romania, gymnist, scored a perfect 10 in olympics 
03/04/1965 Dana Brown, Memphis Tenn, Miss Tenn-America (1991) (3rd) 
03/04/1968 Patsy Kensit, London, rocker/actress (Lethal Weapon 2, 21, Hanover S

03/04/1969 Chastity Bono, daughter of Sonny & Cher/singer 
03/04/1972 Sherida Pawiroredjo, Suriname Miss Indra Maju (1993) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
03/04/1172 Stephan III, King of Hungary (1162-72), dies 
03/04/1484 Kazimierz, the Saint, Polish ruler/saint, dies 
03/04/1615 Hans von Aachen, German painter, dies 
03/04/1617 Arcangelo Crivelli, composer, dies at 70 
03/04/1793 Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 44 
03/04/1794 Henri D count de Larochejacquelin, French royalist Army leader, dies

03/04/1831 Georg Michael Telemann, composer, dies at 82 
03/04/1839 Ignace Antoine Ladurner, composer, dies at 72 
03/04/1851 Michael Henkel, composer, dies at 71 
03/04/1864 Thomas Starr King, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity) 
03/04/1866 Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at 77

03/04/1876 Alfred Holmes, composer, dies at 38 
03/04/1883 Alexander H Stephens, VP Confederate States, dies 
03/04/1888 Amos Bronson Alcott, US theory/poet (Table Talk), dies at 88 
03/04/1903 Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant), dies 
03/04/1916 Franz Marc, German painter/co-founder (Verdun), dies at 36 
03/04/1918 Eugene D'Harcourt, composer, dies at 58 
03/04/1922 Bert Williams, famous black, dies at 46, in NYC 
03/04/1925 Moritz Moszkowski, composer, dies at 70 
03/04/1933 Willie Walker, US jazz singer/guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36 
03/04/1936 Ruben Mattias Liljefors, composer, dies at 64 
03/04/1941 Edoardo Mascheroni, composer, dies at 81 
03/04/1942 Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, composer, dies at 62 
03/04/1943 Nikolaos 'Sokrates' Politis, Greek diplomat/foreign minister, dies 
03/04/1943 Pieter C Boutens, poet, dies 
03/04/1948 Antonin Artaud, French poet/actor (Napoleon), dies at 51 
03/04/1948 Elsa Br„ndstr”m, [Angel of Siberia], Swedish philanthropist, dies 
03/04/1953 Sergei S Prokoviev, Russian composer (Peter & the wolf), dies at 61 
03/04/1954 Georg Gohler, composer, dies at 80 
03/04/1954 Noel Gay, composer, dies at 55 
03/04/1958 Albert Kuyle, [Louis Kuitenbrouwer], writer (Jesus' Carpet), dies 
03/04/1960 Leonard Warren, US baritone, dies on stage at 48 
03/04/1962 Cairine R Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed) dies at 77

03/04/1963 William Carlos Williams, US physician/poet, dies at 79 
03/04/1966 Janis Medins, composer, dies at 75 
03/04/1968 Alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 85 
03/04/1974 Adolph Gottlieb, US painter, dies at 71 
03/04/1981 Torin Thatcher, actor (Houdini, Isranbul, Lady Godiva), dies 
03/04/1983 Herg‚, [Georges R‚mi], Belgian cartoonist (Kuifje), dies 
03/04/1984 Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer, dies at 79 
03/04/1986 Henri Handsome, journalist/writer, dies at 75 
03/04/1986 Richard Manuel, rock vocalist/pianist (Band), commits suicide at 40 
03/04/1991 Vance Colvig, actor, dies 
03/04/1992 Arthur Babbitt, animator (Mr Magoo, Goofy), die at 84 of heart failu

03/04/1992 C Meijer, editor in chief (Typhoon), dies 
03/04/1992 Christian K Nelson, inventor (Eskimo Pie), dies at 98 
03/04/1992 Mary Osborne, jazz guitarist, dies at 70 of liver cancer 
03/04/1992 Nestor Almendros, Spanish/US cameraman (Kramer vs Kramer), dies at 6

03/04/1993 Art Hodes, Russ/US jazz/blues pianist/editor (Jazz Record), dies 
03/04/1993 Richard Sale, writer/director (Oscar, Torpedo Run), dies 
03/04/1994 Guus Verstraete Sr, actor/director (Twee Druppels Waters), dies at 7

03/04/1994 John Candy, actor (Uncle Buck), dies at 43 from a heart attack 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
03/04/1152 Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king 
03/04/1461 Edward IV recognized as king of England 
03/04/1570 King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students 
03/04/1621 Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia 
03/04/1634 Samuel Cole opens 1st tavern in Boston, Massachusetts 
03/04/1665 English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands 
03/04/1675 John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England 
03/04/1681 King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn 
03/04/1699 Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany 
03/04/1741 English fleet under admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena 
03/04/1774 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel) 
03/04/1789 1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps) 
03/04/1791 1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office 
03/04/1791 Pres Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session 
03/04/1791 Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies) 
03/04/1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii 
03/04/1793 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg 
03/04/1793 Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words) 
03/04/1798 Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jew

03/04/1801 1st president inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson) 
03/04/1809 Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes 
03/04/1826 1st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass 
03/04/1829 Unruly crowd mobs White House during Pres Jackson inaugural ball 
03/04/1835 HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepci¢n 
03/04/1837 Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American 
03/04/1841 Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison 
03/04/1849 US had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't 
03/04/1849 be sworn-in, Sen David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd 
03/04/1853 William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US VP 
03/04/1861 Asteroid 64, Angelina discovered 
03/04/1861 Confederate States adopt 'Stars & Bars' flag 
03/04/1861 E W Tempel discovers asteroid #64 Angelina 
03/04/1861 Lincoln's innauguration; 1st time US has 5 former presidents 
03/04/1861 Pres Lincoln opens Govt Printing Office 
03/04/1863 Battle of Thompson's Station, TN 
03/04/1863 Territory of Idaho established 
03/04/1865 Confederate congress approves final design of 'official flag' 
03/04/1869 Ulysses Grant inaugurated as US president 
03/04/1876 US Congress ends 'impeachment' of Minister of War Belknap 
03/04/1880 NY Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S H Horgan 
03/04/1881 California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation 
03/04/1881 Holmes & Watson begin 'A Study in Scarlet', 1st case together 
03/04/1881 James A Garfield inaugurated as US president 
03/04/1885 Grover Cleveland becomes 1st Democratic president since Civil War 
03/04/1889 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as US, president 
03/04/1892 M Wolf discovers asteroid #325 Heidelberga 
03/04/1893 Grover Cleveland (D) becomes 22nd US president (2nd term) 
03/04/1894 Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed 
03/04/1895 Premeir of Gustav Mahlers 2nd Symphony (Berlin) 
03/04/1897 William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US 
03/04/1901 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer)

03/04/1901 Term of George H White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, end

03/04/1901 US president William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term of office 
03/04/1902 American Automobile Association opens 
03/04/1902 M Wolf discovers asteroid #483 Seppina 
03/04/1906 M Wolf discovers asteroid #590 Tomyris 
03/04/1907 A Kopff discovers asteroid #627 Charis 
03/04/1908 Collingwood Ohio school catches fire; 180 die 
03/04/1909 President Taft sworn-in during 10' snowstorm 
03/04/1909 US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds 
03/04/1911 Victor Berger (Wisc) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US 
03/04/1913 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed 
03/04/1913 Dept of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments 
03/04/1917 Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) becomes 1st female member of Congress 
03/04/1918 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921) 
03/04/1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece 
03/04/1921 Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas 
03/04/1923 Lenin's last article in Pravda about Red bureaucracy 
03/04/1925 Pres Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations 
03/04/1925 Swain's I (near American Samoa) annexed by US 
03/04/1926 De Geer govt in Netherlands takes office 
03/04/1928 'Bunion Run' race from LA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne 
03/04/1929 Charles Curtis (R-Kans) becomes 1st native American VP 
03/04/1929 Inauguration of President Herbert Hoover 
03/04/1930 Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman 
03/04/1930 Mrs Charles Fahning is 1st woman to bowl a santioned perfect game 
03/04/1932 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1241 Dysona 
03/04/1933 Chancellor Dollfuss disolves Austrian parliament 
03/04/1933 FDR inaugurated, says 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself' 
03/04/1933 Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st US woman cabinet member 
03/04/1934 Easter Cross on Mt Davidson (SF) dedicated 
03/04/1936 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany 
03/04/1937 L Boyer discovers asteroids #1415 Malautra & #1416 Renauxa 
03/04/1941 18 Geuzen resistance fighter sentenced to death in The Hague 
03/04/1941 NHL Chicago goalee Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shot

03/04/1944 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy 
03/04/1945 Finland declares war on nazi-Germany 
03/04/1947 WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting

03/04/1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister 
03/04/1949 Piet Van de Pol of Neth becomes world champion billiard player 
03/04/1949 Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel 
03/04/1954 1st black US sub-cabinet member appointed-JE Wilkins 
03/04/1955 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent 
03/04/1959 US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artifical planet 
03/04/1960 French freighter 'La Coubre' explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 
03/04/1960 Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz 
03/04/1961 Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as sec-gen of NATO 
03/04/1966 Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die 
03/04/1966 John Lennon, says 'We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus' 
03/04/1968 Joe Frazier defeats Buster Mathis for heavyweight boxing championshi

03/04/1968 Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign 
03/04/1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched 
03/04/1970 French submarine 'Eurydice' explodes 
03/04/1970 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game

03/04/1970 NY Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out 
03/04/1971 'Stadscommando' kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey 
03/04/1972 Keller skates world record 1000m (1:18.5) 
03/04/1972 Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty 
03/04/1974 Harold Wilson becomes British premier 
03/04/1976 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio 
03/04/1977 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, NM 
03/04/1977 Earthquake in Romania, kills 1500 
03/04/1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue 
03/04/1979 200th episode of 'All in the Family' 
03/04/1979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings 
03/04/1980 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy 
03/04/1980 Robert Mugabes (ZANU-PF) wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe 
03/04/1981 H Debehogne discovers asteroids #2765 & #3705 
03/04/1982 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy & D Potvin 
03/04/1982 NASA launches Intelsat V 
03/04/1985 STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled 
03/04/1986 C Shoemaker & E Shoemake discovers asteroid #3554 Amun 
03/04/1989 Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline 
03/04/1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike 
03/04/1989 Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m) 
03/04/1990 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space 
03/04/1991 Bank of Credit & Commerce Intl divests itself of 1st American Bank 
03/04/1991 Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW 
03/04/1994 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center 
03/04/1994 STS-62 (Columbia) launches into orbit 
  
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