CoM Moderators Posted March 4 Posted March 4 Historical Events 1841 - Dion Boucicault's stage comedy "London Assurance" opens at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London 1845 - James K. Polk inaugurated as 11th US President 1970 - Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game 1995 - Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1 2023 - Andrew Tate's legal team states he has a dark spot on his lung, sparking rumors about lung cancer More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1889 - Oren E. Long, American politician and 10th Territorial Governor of Hawai'i (1951-3), born in Altoona, Kansas (d. 1965) 1907 - Maria Branyas, 2nd oldest American-Catalan supercentenarian (117 years, 168 days), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2024) 1909 - Harry B. Helmsley, American billionaire real estate developer (purchased Empire State Building, 1961), born in New York City (d. 199) 1938 - Alpha Condé, Guinean politician (President of Guinea, 2010-21), born in Boke, Lower Guinea 1973 - Jasper Somsen, Dutch jazz double bassist, composer and producer, born in was born Bennekom, Netherlands More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1193 - Saladin, 1st Sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, dies of fever at about 55 1868 - Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805) 1927 - Ira Remsen American chemist, Johns Hopkins first Chemistry professor, dies at 81 1945 - Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872) 2007 - Natalie Bodanya [Bodanskaya], American soprano, dies at 98 More Famous Deaths »
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