Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 4
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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.
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