Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 4

March 4: Saint Casimir's Day in Lithuania

• 1461 - Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI was deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then became King Edward IV.
• 1681 - King Charles II of England granted William Penn a charter for the Pennsylvania Colony.
• 1825 - Despite having lost in both the electoral and popular votes in the 1824 presidential election, John Quincy Adams was inaugurated as the sixth President of the United States.
• 1877 - Emile Berliner invented the microphone.
• 1980 - Robert Mugabe (pictured) of the Zimbabwe African National Union was elected to head the first government in Zimbabwe.

Recent days: March 3 – March 2 – March 1

More anniversaries:

• February 29
• March 1
• March 2