On March 4, 1789, the United States Constitution came into effect, with which the Union began to function as a group of federated states.
OTHER EVENTS:
1789.- The Constitution of the United States, the oldest supreme federal law currently established in the world, comes into force.
1811.- The Argentine politician Mariano Moreno, member of the Primera Junta de Buenos Aires, dies suddenly at the age of 32 aboard the frigate Fame, while on his way to London as a diplomat.
1826.- The Argentine Congress accepts that Buenos Aires is the capital of the Republic.
1861.- Abraham Lincoln, who will go down in history for having abolished slavery, is inaugurated as President of the United States.
1877.- “Swan Lake” by Tchaikowski, one of the most popular classical ballets, premiered at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
1899.- Cyclone Mahina causes the worst maritime disaster ever recorded in the Australian state of Queensland, flooding the coast, destroying ships and killing more than 400 people.
1929.- The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), ruling party in Mexico for seventy consecutive years, is founded by former President Plutarco Elías Calles as the National Revolutionary Party (PNR).
1933.- Franklin D. Roosevelt, who will launch the ambitious New Deal program in response to the economic depression, becomes the thirty-second President of the United States.
1942.- The French philosopher and journalist Albert Camus publishes his first novel, “The Stranger”, one of the most important works of existentialism.
1948.- Argentina and Chile sign a declaration by which they will act in common agreement in the protection and legal defense of their rights in the South American Antarctic.
1952 – The Anchieta rail disaster near Rio de Janeiro kills 119 people when an electric freight train collides with a derailed passenger train.
1960.- A terrorist attack causes the explosion of the French freighter “Le Coubre”, with weapons for the Cuban government, in the port of Havana, causing 100 deaths and more than 200 injuries.
1964. A federal jury sends Jimmy Hoffa, a mob-linked American trade unionist, to prison after being found guilty of attempting to bribe a jury during legal proceedings against him.
1974.- Labor Harold Wilson replaces Conservative Edward Heath as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1987.- President Ronald Reagan admits that the United States sold arms to Iran, a country against which there was an arms embargo, in exchange for hostages.
1997.- Estonia becomes the first country in the world to adopt mass Internet voting in national elections.
2000.- Sony launches the PlayStation 2, the best-selling game console in history.
2001.- Switzerland rejects its entry into the European Union by referendum.
2005.- The former Ukrainian Minister of the Interior, General Yuri Krávchenko, is found dead at his home in kyiv, when he should have appeared in the investigation into the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze in 2000.
2008.- Historic Unionist leader Ian Paisley announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party.
2009.- The International Criminal Court in The Hague issues an arrest warrant against the President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, for crimes against humanity committed in Darfur.
2018.- Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, who worked as a double agent for British intelligence, is poisoned by nerve gas in the United Kingdom, which blamed the attack on Russia.
2020.- Chinese scientists describe the complete structure of the ACE2 protein, which the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus uses to enter human cells.
2022.- Russia takes control of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
BIRTHS:
1678.- Antonio Vivaldi, composer.
1889.- Pearl White, American actress.
1913.- John Garfield, American actor.
1932.- Ryszard Kapucinski, Polish journalist, writer and historian.
1943.- Lucio Dalla, Italian singer-songwriter.
1944.- Bobby Womack, American singer and musician.
1948.- James Ellroy, American writer.
1951.- Chris Rea, British singer and composer.
.- Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer.
1952.- Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer.
1974.- Ariel Ortega, Argentine soccer player.
1978.- Betty Monroe, Mexican actress, presenter and model.
1982.- Mariano Altuna, Argentine racing driver.
.- Rodrigo de Souza Cardoso, Brazilian footballer.
1983.- Drew Houston, American businessman, co-founder of Dropbox.
1990.- Andrea Bowen, American actress, singer and dancer.
1992.- Erik Lamela, Argentinian footballer.
1999.- Brooklyn Beckham, British model and photographer.
DEATH:
1852. Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Russian novelist.
1916.- Franz Marc, German expressionist painter.
1925.- Moritz Moszkowski, composer and pianist of Polish origin.
1948.- Antonin Artaud, French poet and playwright.
1960.- Leonard Warren, American baritone.
1974.- Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor.
1991.- José Iglesias, Argentinian actor.
2004.- Fernando Lázaro Carreter, Spanish philologist.
2016.- Tony Dyson, British engineer who created R2-D2.
2019.- Keith Klint, British musician, lead singer of The Prodigy.
.- Luke Perry, American actor.
2020.- Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian lawyer and diplomat, fifth Secretary General of the UN. EFE
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