March 4th

  • American forces occupy Dorchester Heights

  • government under the US Constitution begins

  • Lincoln inaugurated

  • Woodrow Wilson’s first inaugural address

  • Eighth Air Force bombs Berlin

  • Ernest Hemingway finishes The Old Man and the Sea

  • Dulles asks for action against communism

  • Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis marry

  • John Lennon sparks his first major controversy

  • Martha Stewart released from prison