Today is Friday, March 4, the 64th day of 2016. There are 302 days left in the year.
1570 — King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students
1741 — English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena
1791 — Vermont admitted as 14th state (first addition to the 13 colonies)
1801 — First President inaugurated in Washington, D.C. (Thomas Jefferson)
1830 — Bellini’s opera “I Capuleti e i Montecchi” premieres in Venice
1841 — Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison
1853 — Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands
1861 — President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office
1863 — Battle of Thompson’s Station, Tennessee
1865 — Confederate congress approves final design of “official flag”
1865 — President Lincoln inaugurated for his second term