407 Historic Events for March 4
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| 1754 |
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Benjamin Waterhouse, physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer)
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| 1757 |
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Ignaz Malzat, composer
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| 1765 |
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Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized)
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| 1766 |
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Emanuel ADMJ, French historian (Napoleon)
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| 1773 |
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Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer
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| 1774 |
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1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)
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| 1782 |
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Johann Wyss, Swiss folklorist/writer (Swiss Family Robinson)
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| 1789 |
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Pavel P Gagarin, Russ monarch
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| 1789 |
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1st Congress declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps)
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| 1791 |
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Pres Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session
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| 1791 |
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1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office
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| 1791 |
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Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
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| 1792 |
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Oranges introduced to Hawaii
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| 1793 |
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Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 44
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| 1793 |
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Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)
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| 1793 |
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French troops conquer Geertruidenberg Neth
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| 1794 |
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Henri D count de Larochejacquelin, Fr Royalist Army leader, dies at 21
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| 1797 |
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John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of US
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| 1798 |
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John Joseph Abercrombie, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1877
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| 1798 |
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Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews
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| 1801 |
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1st president inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson)
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| 1804 |
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Karl Leopold Rollig, composer, dies
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| 1805 |
Death |
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter, dies at 79
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| 1809 |
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Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes
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| 1813 |
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Wijnand J J Nuijen, romantic/water colors painter (Wrecked)
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