Historical Events on March 4

1791: Vermont became the 14th state of the United States.

1837: The city of Chicago was founded.

1861: Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United States.

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

1961: INS Vikrant entered the Indian Navy.

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

2001: The Ranjit Sagar Dam at Gurdaspur inaugurated by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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

2019: The Indian submarine spotted by the Pakistan Navy.

Birthdays and birth anniversaries– 4th March.

1394: Henry the Navigator, a Portuguese Explorer.

1678: Antonio Vivaldi, an Italian Baroque composer.

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

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

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

1980: Rohan Bopanna, an Indian professional tennis player.

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

 

Death anniversaries– March 4

Famous people died on this day in India and the world on – March 4.

1852: Nikolai Gogol, a Russian novelist.

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

1952: Sir Charles Sherrington, an English neurophysiologist.

1995: Iftekhar, an Indian actor.

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

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

2011: Arjun Singh, an Indian politician.