Associated Press

On March 4, 1789, the Constitution went into effect as the first Federal Congress met in New York.

In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term.

In 1917, Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana took her seat as the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt took office as America’s 32nd president.

In 1966, John Lennon of the Beatles was quoted in the London Evening Standard as saying, “We’re more popular than Jesus now,” a comment that caused an angry backlash in the United States.

In 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.

In 2020, federal health officials investigated a Seattle nursing home at the center of a coronavirus outbreak.