March 4 in History

• 1461

  March 4, 1461: The Yorkists depose King Henry VI of England and replace him with Edward IV.

• 1789

  March 4, 1789: The Constitution of the United States goes into effect.

• 1837

  March 4, 1837: Chicago is incorporated as a US city.

• 1922

  March 4, 1922: The German silent horror film, "Nosferatu" is released.

• 1933

  March 4, 1933: Frances Perkins is sworn in as the US Secretary of Labor, becoming the first woman to be appointed to a cabinet position.
• March 4, 1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd President of the United States.

• 1952

  March 4, 1952: Author Ernest Hemingway writes to his publisher informing him of the completion of his book, "The Old Man and the Sea".

• 1966

  March 4, 1966: John Lennon's infamous "We're more popular than Jesus" statement appears in a newspaper interview.

• 1982

  March 4, 1982: Bertha Wilson becomes the first woman to be appointed as a judge in Canada's Supreme Court.

• 2005

  March 4, 2005: Television personality Martha Stewart is released from prison after having served 5 months for lying about selling ImClone stocks four years earlier.