TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

March 4, 1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt took office as America’s 32nd president.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1793

George Washington was sworn in for a second term as president of the United States during a ceremony in Philadelphia.

1865

President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term of office.

1987

President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation on the Iran-Contra affair, acknowledging that his overtures to Iran had “deteriorated” into an arms-for-hostages deal.

1994

In New York, four extremists were convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people and injured more than a thousand.

1998

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that sexual harassment at work can be illegal even when the offender and victim are of the same gender.

2005

Martha Stewart, imprisoned for five months for her role in a stock scandal, left federal prison to start five months of home confinement.

2009

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, addressing a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, called on Americans to look beyond their own tumbling financial markets to see a world gripped by an “economic hurricane” that could be turned around with U.S. help..

2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia would “never” extradite any of the 13 Russians who’d been indicted by the United States for election-meddling; he also insisted to NBC News that they didn’t act on behalf of his government. Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found unconscious on a bench in the southwestern English city of Salisbury; both survived what British authorities said was a murder attempt using a nerve agent.