If you love to read about new discoveries, facts, and inventions e.t.c, historical documentation will come in handy. Check out our list of events that happened on March 4 in history and made headlines.
- 1766 – The British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, which had caused bitter and violent opposition in the U.S. colonies.
- 1826 – The first railroad in the U.S. was chartered.
- 1877 – Emile Berliner invented the microphone.
- 1902 – The American Automobile Association was founded in Chicago.
- 1917 – Jeanette Rankin of Montana took her seat as the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
- 1930 – Emma Fahning became the first woman bowler to bowl a perfect game in a competition.
- 1952 – U.S. President Harry Truman dedicated the “Courier,” the first seagoing radio broadcasting station.
- 1954 – In Boston, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital reported the first successful kidney transplant.
- 1954 – The U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned about the spread of communism around the world.
- 1962- A total of 111 people riding aboard the British DC-7C airliner lost their lives when it crashed.
- 1966- UK John Lennon quote in an interview upset Americans.
- 1952 – U.S. President Harry Truman dedicated the “Courier,” the first seagoing radio broadcasting station.
- 1975 -At 86 years old and confined to a wheelchair, actor and comedian Charlie Chaplin was knighted by Queen Elizabeth to become Sir Charles Chaplin.
- 1989 -Time, Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. announced their plan to merge.
- 1997 -U.S. President Clinton stopped federal spending on human cloning.
- 1999 -Monica Lewinsky’s book about her affair with U.S. President Clinton went on sale in the U.S.
- 2005 -Martha Stewart was released from a federal prison in West Virginia, after serving five months for lying about her sale of ImClone stock in 2001.
- 2005 -United Nations released a report that emphasized action be taken to prevent HIV from becoming an epidemic in Africa.
- 2009 -Ted Kennedy was offered an honorary knighthood.
- 2014 -Maori King Tuheitia declined to meet up with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge during their upcoming tour of New Zealand.