03-04-2005, 06:15 AM
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March 4th
1461 ~ Wars of the Roses: Lancastrian King Henry VI was deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then became King Edward IV.
1678 ~ Birthday of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Composer.
1681 ~ Charles II of England granted a land charter to William Penn for what will later become Pennsylvania.
1804 ~ The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales.
1861 ~ The "Stars and Bars" was adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.
1877 ~ Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake first performed.
1917 ~ Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first female member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
1975 ~ Charlie Chaplin was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1994 ~ Four terrorists were convicted for their roles in the World Trade Center bombing which killed six and injured more than a thousand.
1997 ~ U.S. President Bill Clinton prohibited federal funding for any research on human cloning.
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