MARCH 4TH IN HISTORY!

March 4th in History
1789: First Congress of the United States held in New York
1861: Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th President of the United States
1959: Pioneer 4 becomes the first American spacecraft to flyby the Moon
1980: Robert Mugabe forms Zimbabwe's first black government
1970: Fifty-seven people are killed as the French submarine Eurydice sinks in the Mediterranean Sea.
1977: Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541
1979: US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
1987: President Reagan takes full responsibility for the Iran-Contra affair in a national address.
1990: Time Incorporated & Warner Communications announce their intended merger
1991: Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW
1995: Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital
1995: George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker
1995: Michael Johnson runs world record 400 meter indoor (44.63 seconds)
1997: President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research
1999: A North Carolina military jury acquits a Marine pilot in the Italian cable car accident that killed 20 people

March 4th birthdays
1678: Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer
1924: Marlon Brando, American actor
1888: Knute Rockne, football player and coach for Notre Dame.
1901: Charles Goren, world expert on the game of bridge.
1904: Ding Ling, Chinese writer and women's rights activist.
1909: Harry B Helmsley New York NY, billionaire builder ( Empire State Building )
1928: Alan Sillitoe, novelist (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner).