Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 4

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This is a list of selected March 4 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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King Edward IV of England
King Henry VI of England
William Penn
Władysław II Jagiełło, King of Poland
Władysław II Jagiełło
Frances Perkins
Robert Mugabe
Forth Bridge
Engelbert Dollfuss

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Blurb	Reason
1789 – As per the Constitution, the U.S. Congress officially replaced the Congress of the Confederation as the legislative body of the federal government.	refimprove section
1877 – Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake debuted at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.	refimprove section
1982 – Bertha Wilson became the first female Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.	refimprove section

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306 – Roman Herculian guard Adrian of Nicomedia, who had converted to Christianity after being impressed with the faith of Christians that he had been torturing, was martyred.
856 – Trpimir I, founder of the Trpimirović dynasty of Croatia, issued a document that contained the first known usage of the name "Croats".
1386 – Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania, was crowned King of Poland as Władysław II Jagiełło, beginning the Jagiellonian dynasty.
1461 – Wars of the Roses: Henry VI, the Lancastrian king of England, was deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who succeeded him as Edward IV.
1681 – King Charles II of England granted Quaker William Penn a charter for the Pennsylvania Colony.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Using artillery transported from Ticonderoga, the Continental Army occupied Dorchester Heights, forcing the British to abandon Boston two weeks later.
1814 – War of 1812: An American raiding party defeated an attempt by British regulars, volunteers from the Canadian militia and Native Americans to intercept them near present-day Wardville, Ontario.
1824 – The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, a charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the British Isles, was founded as the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck by author and philanthropist William Hillary.
1890 – The Forth Bridge, a railway bridge connecting Edinburgh to Fife over the Firth of Forth, opened, eventually becoming an internationally recognised Scottish landmark.
1899 – Cyclone Mahina struck Bathurst Bay, Queensland, killing over 300 people in the deadliest natural disaster in Australian history.
1918 – The United States Navy suffered its largest non-combat loss of life when the collier USS Cyclops set sail from Barbados to Baltimore and was never seen again, presumably disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle.
1918 – A case of influenza was recorded at Camp Funston, Kansas, conventionally marking the beginning of the Spanish flu.
1933 – Frances Perkins was appointed United States Secretary of Labor, making her the first female member of the Cabinet.
1933 – All three presidents of the Austrian National Council resigned, and Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss later used that pretext to create an authoritarian government.
1941 – Second World War: British Commandos successfully executed a raid on the Lofoten Islands in German-occupied Norway.
1944 – Murder, Inc. leader Lepke Buchalter was executed, becoming the only American mob boss to receive the death penalty after being convicted of murder.
1966 – During an interview, John Lennon of the Beatles argued that the band had become "more popular than Jesus".
1987 – U.S. president Ronald Reagan made a nationally televised address in which he accepted full responsibility for illegal actions in the Iran–Contra affair.
1990 – College basketball player Hank Gathers died after collapsing during a West Coast Conference Tournament semifinal game in Los Angeles.
2007 – Fourteen-year-old English schoolgirl Charlotte Shaw drowned on Dartmoor, becoming the first person to die in connection with the annual Ten Tors challenge.
2009 – President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan was indicted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the War in Darfur.
Born/died: | Hindal Mirza |b|1519| Hans von Aachen |d|1615| Jack Sheppard |b|1702| Mariano Moreno |d|1811| Edwards Pierrepont |b|1817| Paul Lacôme |b|1838| Robert Emden |b|1862| Rosalind Pitt-Rivers |b|1907| Ernest Titterton |b|1916| Jane Fawcett |b|1921| Bobbi Kristina Brown |b|1993| Izaak Kolthoff |d|1993| Gary Gygax |d|2008

March 4: Feast day of Saint Casimir (Catholicism)

John Flamsteed

1675 – John Flamsteed (pictured) was appointed the first Astronomer Royal by King Charles II of England.
1804 – Irish convicts formerly involved at the Battle of Vinegar Hill during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 began an uprising against British colonial authorities in New South Wales, Australia.
1837 – Chicago, Illinois, was incorporated as a city after its population increased in seven years from 200 to more than 4,000.
1943 – The Holocaust: Almost all Jews in Bulgarian-occupied northern Greece were deported to Treblinka extermination camp to be killed.
2012 – A series of blasts occurred at an arms dump in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people and injuring 2,300 others.

Stephen III of Hungary (d. 1172)
Miriam Makeba (b. 1932)
Harold Barrowclough (d. 1972)

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