Historical Events on March 4.

1.  1791, 4th March: Vermont became the 14th state of the United States.

2.  1837, 4th March: The city of Chicago was founded.

3.  1861, 4th March: Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United States.

4.  1951, 4th March: The first Asian Games inaugurated by President Dr. Rajendra Prasad in New Delhi.

5.  1961, 4th March: INS Vikrant entered the Indian Navy.

6.  1980, 4th March: Robert Mugabe became Zimbabwe’s first black prime minister, winning a landslide victory.

7.  2001, 4th March: The Ranjit Sagar Dam at Gurdaspur inaugurated by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

8.  2009, 4th March: New version of the BrahMos missile test-fired from Pokhran, Rajasthan.

9.  2019, 4th March: The Indian submarine spotted by the Pakistan Navy. 

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on March 4.

1.  1394: Henry the Navigator, a Portuguese Explorer.

2.  1678: Antonio Vivaldi, an Italian Baroque composer.

3.  1856: Toru Dutt, a Bengali translator, and poet.

4.  1921: Phanishwar Nath ‘Renu’, an Indian writer of the Hindi literature.

5.  1926: Richard DeVos Sr., an American billionaire businessman, co-founder of Amway.

6.  1980: Rohan Bopanna, an Indian professional tennis player.

7.  1986: Michel Krieger, a Brazilian-American entrepreneur, software engineer, and co-founder of Instagram.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on March 4.

1.  1852: Nikolai Gogol, a Russian novelist.

2.  1925: Jyotirindranath Tagore, a playwright, a musician, an editor, and a painter.

3.  1952: Sir Charles Sherrington, an English neurophysiologist.

4.  1995: Iftekhar, an Indian actor.

5.  2000: Geeta Mukherjee, an Indian politician and social worker.

6.  2001: Vitthalrao Gadgil, a leader of the Indian National Congress.

7.  2011: Arjun Singh, an Indian politician.

4-March-1858

J. P. Walker, British Officer, along with 200 prisoners who were mainly from the Indian Sepoy Mutiny, sailed from Calcutta to start a new settlement in the Andaman Islands.

4-March-1879

Bethune' College of Calcutta was established as the pioneer of women s college education in India.

4-March-1895

Surendra Singh Majithia, great industrialist, was born.

4-March-1906

Hakim Abdul Majid started his medial dispensary under the name of Hamdard Dawakhana at Delhi.

4-March-1919

Jagtindar Nath Beri, physics expert, was born.

4-March-1924

Shyam Lal Gupt 'Parshad' wrote the song 'Jhanda Ooncha Rahe Hamara'.

4-March-1925

Jyotirindranath Tagore, great Bengali litterateur and poet, passed away.

4-March-1927

Dr. Laxminarayan Lal was born.

4-March-1939

Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter, passed away at Philadelphia.

4-March-1951

Eleven countries and 489 male and female athletes participated in the first Asian Games started at National Stadium in New Delhi.

4-March-1961

First Indian aircraft carrier naval fighter vessel ''I.N.S. Vikrant'' was commissioned in Belfast.

4-March-1990

Congress (I) gains absolute majority in Arunachal Pradesh; Gegong Apang CM.

4-March-1990

Sunderlal Patwa (BJP) and D. Ramachandran (DMK) named CM's of Madhya Pradesh and Pondicherry respectively.

4-March-1990

V. P. Singh resigns as party president, but asked to continue.

4-March-1991

Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha presents mid-term budget, cut in food and fertiliser subsidy, amounting to Rs. 934 crore, proposed.

4-March-1994

Lech Walesa, Polish President, visit India.

4-March-1995

Kakrapar nuclear power station's second unit located near Surat synchronised to the western grid after mandatory tests.

4-March-1996

India and EU agree on a plan to boost trade ties.

4-March-1996

King of Bhutan arrives in India for a three-day state visit.

4-March-1996

Union govt. decides to set up a national grid for the distribution of petroleum products.

4-March-1997

Govt. not to print Re. 1 , Rs. 2 & Rs. 5 currency notes any more, as these three denominations have been coinised.

4-March-2000

Geeta Mukherjee (76), veteran communist leader, died of a massive heart attack in New Delhi. Popularly known as 'Geetadi', she won every Lok Sabha election from Panskura in West Bengal since 1980.