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Events on March 4

• 1152 After the death of Conrad III, his nephew Frederick III, Duke of Swabia since 1147, is elected King of the Romans in Frankfurt am Main as the second member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty.
• 1877 The ballet Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky premieres at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. At the time, the Bolshoi Ballet does not yet have the standard required to perform the piece, so the difficult sections are replaced with simpler musical pieces, and the ballet is a flop with audiences.
• 1895 The world's first sample fair (MM) begins in Leipzig. It replaces traditional trade fairs with future sample shows and makes Leipzig a global trading center.
• 1922 In the Marble Hall of the Berlin Zoological Garden, the silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, with Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok, has its premiere. The feature film is regarded as a defining work in the horror film genre.
• 1933 With the inauguration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal begins in the United States to overcome the Great Depression.
• 1959 Pioneer 4 flies past the Moon at a distance of approximately 60,000 km and becomes the first U.S. space vehicle to enter interplanetary space, two months after the Soviet Lunik 1.
• 1966 John Lennon gives the London Evening Standard an interview in which he claims, among other things, in reference to the Beatles: "We're more popular than Jesus now". The statement leads to fierce reactions in the United States. Radio stations boycott Beatles songs.
• 1975 The 2 June Movement, which would later be merged into the Red Army Faction, releases Peter Lorenz.
• 1985 The first German citizen bus begins service between the towns of Legden, Heek and Ahaus in Münsterland.
• 2001 In a Swiss referendum, 76.8% of voters vote against the constitutional initiative "Yes to Europe" and thus against Switzerland joining the EU. Turnout is 55.8%.
• 2004 On the occasion of its 100th anniversary, the international football organization FIFA releases "FIFA 100", a list of the 125 best male and female football players still alive at the time of the anniversary.
• 2018 An attack with the nerve agent Novichok is carried out against the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, Britain. Owing to the presumed Russian involvement, the incident escalates into an international diplomatic crisis.

Born on March 4

• 1861 Curt von Bardeleben, German chess player and chess theorist
• 1881 Todor Aleksandrow, Bulgarian-Macedonian voivode and founder of the IMRO
• 1900 Bruno Fritz, German cabaret artist, actor and dubbing artist
• 1940 Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, German legal scholar and judge of the Federal Constitutional Court
• 1950 Rick Perry, American politician
• 1970 Àlex Crivillé, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1970 Edward Gal, Dutch dressage rider
• 1980 Silvana Bayer, German stage, film and television actress
• 1990 Draymond Green, American basketball player
• 2000 Melissa Kössler, German female football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „4. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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