TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014

Today is Tuesday, March 4, the 63rd day of 2014. There are 302 days left in the year.

1774 ― First sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)

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

1911 ― Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes first socialist congressman in U.S.

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

1924 ― “Happy Birthday To You” published by Claydon Sunny

1933 ― FDR inaugurated as 32nd President, pledges to pull U.S. out of Depression, and says “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”

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

1968 ― Martin Luther King Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign

1997 ― Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks

1997 ― President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research