1790 - France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces, in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.
1999 - In a military court, Captain Richard Ashby of the United States Marines is acquitted of the charge of reckless flying which resulted in the deaths of 20 skiers in the Italian Alps when his low-flying jet hit a gondola cable.
On Monday, March4, 1861, President James Buchanan and President-elect Abraham Lincoln left the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., in a horse-drawn carriage bound for the Capitol and Lincoln's first inauguration.
Although Congress scheduled the first inauguration for March4, 1789, they were unable to count the electoral ballots as early as anticipated.
In celebration of his March4, 1829 inauguration, President Andrew Jackson invited the American public to the White House.
Although the Senate customarily convened on the Fourth of March every four years for a few days to consider nominations of new presidential administrations, the Senate and the House would not again come together on March4 until 1867.
Finally, at midnight on March 3, 1851, Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis declared that his term had expired and refused to vote when further roll calls were ordered.
The Senate then adopted a resolution stating its opinion that, as the Senate customarily convened at noon on March4, the previous Congress must end at that time.
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