March 4<\/p>\n
306 \u2013 Adrian of Nicomedia, a Herculian Guard of the Roman Emperor Galerius Maximian, is martyred soon after converting from paganism upon hearing the testimony of those he was torturing for their faith.<\/p>\n
1493 \u2013 Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard Ni\u00f1a<\/em> from his first voyage to the new world.<\/p>\n 1519 \u2013 Conquistador Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization.<\/p>\n 1628 \u2013 The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.<\/p>\n 1681 \u2013 William Penn is granted a Royal charter to colonize the area that will later become Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n 1776 \u2013 During the Revolutionary War, the Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.<\/p>\n 1789 \u2013 In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.<\/p>\n 1791 \u2013 Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.<\/p>\n 1794 \u2013 The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification<\/p>\n 1797 \u2013 John Adams is inaugurated as the 2nd President of the United States of America, becoming the first President to begin his term of office on March 4.<\/p>\n 1814 \u2013 During the War of 1812, American forces under Captain Andrew Holmes, engage and defeat British troops at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and present-day Wardsville, Ontario.<\/p>\n 1837 \u2013 The city of Chicago is incorporated.<\/p>\n 1861 \u2013 The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the “Stars and Bars”) is adopted.<\/p>\n 1865 \u2013 The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.<\/p>\n 1908 \u2013 The Lakeview School near Cleveland, Ohio, catches on fire, killing 172 students, 2 teachers and 1 fire fighter.<\/p>\n 1913 \u2013 The United States Department of Labor is formed.<\/p>\n 1917 \u2013 Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in as the 32nd President, and the last President to be inaugurated on March 4.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the Cabinet.<\/p>\n 1957 \u2013 The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013 The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the U.S.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 In the case of\u00a0Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc,<\/em> the Supreme Court rules\u00a0that federal laws banning on the job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 During Operation Anaconda<\/em>, 7 U.S. Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed ande 20 wounded, while killing 200 Al Qaeda fighters during battle atop Takur Ghar mountain in Afghanistan, as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah i Kot Valley. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 4 306 \u2013 Adrian of Nicomedia, a Herculian Guard of the Roman Emperor Galerius Maximian, is martyred soon after converting from paganism upon hearing the testimony of those he was torturing for their faith. 1493 \u2013 Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard Ni\u00f1a from his first voyage to the new world. 1519 … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65428"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90496,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65428\/revisions\/90496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAmong many awards for valor, U.S. Navy Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Britt K. Slabinski and U.S. Air Force Combat Controller Technical Sergeant John A. Chapman eventually receive the Medal of Honor, Sergeant Chapman, posthumously.<\/p>\n