March 4, when US Constitution was adopted

On this day in 1789 the US Constitution was implemented.

Today is March 4, the sixty fourth day of the year.
There are 302 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1632 - Sweden's King Gustavus II resumes his Palatinate campaign in Germany.
1681 - England's King Charles II grants a charter to William Penn for an area of land that later becomes Pennsylvania.

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1789 - The Constitution of the United States goes into effect as the first Federal Congress meets in New York City.
1797 - British troops under Lord Lake quell rebellion in Ulster, Ireland.

1829 - An unruly crowd mobs the White House during the inaugural reception for US President Andrew Jackson.

1917 - German army begins major withdrawal on Western Front in World War I.
1933 - The start of US President Franklin Roosevelt's first administration has the first woman to serve in Cabinet: Labor Secretary Frances Perkins.
1945 - Soviet troops reach Baltic Sea in drive across German province of Pomerania.
1965 - Syria orders nationalization of nine oil companies, including affiliates of two US concerns.
1970 - French submarine with 57 aboard is lost in Mediterranean Sea off the Riviera.
1972 - Soviet Union signs agreement with Libya to jointly develop and refine Libyan oil, a pact seen as a pressure tactic against Western oil companies.
1973 - Eight Black September terrorists end their occupation of Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, after slaying three foreign diplomats.
1977 - Earthquake devastates Bucharest and other towns in Romania, where death toll eventually reaches more than 1,000.
1987 - US President Ronald Reagan addresses the nation on the Iran-Contra affair, acknowledging his overtures to Iran had "deteriorated" into an arms-for-hostages deal.
1988 - Sikh separatists slaughter dozens of Hindus at religious festival in Kari Sari, India.
1989 - Convoys of emergency food and fuel supplies from Soviet Union reach Afghan capital of Kabul.
1990 - ANC loyalists overthrow the government of South African homeland of Ciskei.
1991 - Fierce fighting is reported in Basra, Iraq, between the Republican Guard and opponents of Saddam Hussein.
1992 - Algeria bans the Islamic Salvation Front. The Islamists take to arms and more than 75,000 people, most of them civilians, are killed in the years to come.
1994 - Four Muslim extremists are convicted in the World Trade Center bombing in New York.
1996 - A suicide bomber strikes outside Tel Aviv's biggest shopping center, killing at least 14 people. It is the fourth bombing in Israel in nine days.
1997 - Convoys of policemen and soldiers move into chaotic southern Albania, where the government has lost control after protests that began with the failure of pyramid investment schemes.
1998 - Flash floods in Pakistan kill at least 300 people, including dozens of schoolchildren trapped by raging waters. Another 1,500 people are missing and feared dead.

2001 - Bosnian Croat nationalists pledge to create their own state in Bosnia, threatening efforts to establish a lasting peace in a Balkan country struggling for stability in the aftermath of war.
2002 - The parliament of the Serbian province of Kosovo elects ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova as president, ending a political deadlock that delayed the formation of a government.

Today's Birthdays:
Prince Henry the Navigator, patron of explorers (1394-1460)
Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (1648-1741)
Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish artist (1756-1823)
Charles Goren, US contract bridge authority (1901-1991)
Miriam Makeba, South African singer (1932--)
Patricia Heaton, US actress (1958--)
Chastity Bono, daughter of Sonny and Cher (1969--)
Deepak Tijori, actor
Shankar Mahadevan, musician