Historical Events on March 4

Abraham Lincoln

Here are some historical events that happened on March 4:

1789 - The United States Constitution officially went into effect as the first Congress met in New York City and began to implement the new government. This date also marked the first Presidential Inauguration, with George Washington being sworn in as the first President of the United States.

1791 - Vermont was admitted as the 14th state of the United States.

1837 - The city of Chicago was incorporated.

1861 - Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th President of the United States. This inauguration was notable because it marked the beginning of Lincoln's presidency, which would see the country torn apart by the Civil War.

1933 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd President of the United States. In his famous inaugural address, Roosevelt famously said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

1952 - Ernest Hemingway finished his novel "The Old Man and the Sea." The novel would later earn Hemingway the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1974 - People magazine was published for the first time. The cover featured Mia Farrow.

1994 - Four men were found guilty of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993.

2001 - The Taliban destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan, which were ancient statues dating back to the 6th century.

2013 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez died at the age of 58. He had been in power for 14 years.

These are just a few of the events that have occurred on March 4 throughout history.