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04 March, 2008
Texas Primaries for the 2008 USA Elections.
04 March, 2007
Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the worlds first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
04 March, 2006
Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response was received.
04 March, 2005
The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers.
04 March, 2005
United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by the HIV virus in the future without further action against the spread of the disease.
04 March, 2002
Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
04 March, 2002
Multinational Force in Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
04 March, 2001
4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
04 March, 2001
Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
04 March, 1998
Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
04 March, 1997
US President Bill Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.
04 March, 1994
Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16) launches into orbit.
04 March, 1994
Bosnias Croats and Moslems sign an agreement to form a federation in a loose economic union with Croatia.
04 March, 1991
Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returned to his country for the first time since Iraqs invasion.
04 March, 1985
The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
04 March, 1982
NASA launches "Intelsat V".
04 March, 1980
Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwes first black prime minister.
04 March, 1979
The first encyclical written by Pope John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis (Latin for "The Redeemer of Man") is promulgated less than five months after his installation as pope.
04 March, 1977
The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
04 March, 1977
The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.
04 March, 1976
The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London via the British parliament.
04 March, 1972
Libya and the Soviet Union sign a cooperation treaty.
04 March, 1970
French submarine Eurydice explodes.
04 March, 1966
Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
04 March, 1962
United States Atomic Energy Commission announces that the first atomic power plant at McMurdo Station in Antarctica is in operation.
04 March, 1960
French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100. Fidel Castro blames the U.S.
04 March, 1959
U.S. Pioneer 4 misses Moon and becomes the second (U.S. first) artificial planet.
04 March, 1957
The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
04 March, 1954
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant.
04 March, 1945
In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Army as a driver.
04 March, 1945
Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
04 March, 1944
First U.S. daylight bombing of Berlin and Anti-Germany strikes in northern Italy.
04 March, 1941
The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II.
04 March, 1941
Adolf Hitler applies pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite Pact.
04 March, 1933
Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, first female member of the United States Cabinet.
04 March, 1933
Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
04 March, 1933
The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure - Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates authoritarian rule by decree (see Austrofascism).
04 March, 1931
The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) meet to sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing that salt is freely used by the poorest layers of the population.
04 March, 1930
Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.
04 March, 1929
Charles Curtis becomes the first native-American Vice President.
04 March, 1925
Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.
04 March, 1917
Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
04 March, 1917
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russias renunciation of the throne is made public, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia publicly issues his abdication manifesto. The victory of the February Revolution.
04 March, 1911
Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes the first socialist congressman in U.S..
04 March, 1908
The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
04 March, 1904
Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat toward Manchuria followed by 100,000 Japanese troops.
04 March, 1902
In Chicago, the American Automobile Association is established.
04 March, 1899
Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.
04 March, 1894
Great fire in Shanghai. Over 1,000 buildings are destroyed.
04 March, 1893
Congo Free State: The army of Francis, Baron Dhanis attacks the Lualaba, enabling him to transport his troops across the Upper Congo and, capture Nyangwe almost without an effort.

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