MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2013

Today is Monday, March 4, the 63rd day of 2013. There are 302 days left in the year.

1774 ― First sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)

1793 ― President Washington’s second inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)

1841 ― Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison

1861 ― Lincoln inaugurated as 16th President; first time U.S. has five former presidents living

1895 ― Gustav Mahler’s 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin

1923 ― Lenin’s last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy)

1966 ― John Lennon says “We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus”

1995 ― Blind teenage boy receives a “bionic eye” at a Washington Hospital

1997 ― Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks

1997 ― President Clinton bans federally-funded human cloning research