This Day in History March 4 Year Month Start Date Event 1802 March 4 Born - March 4 - Samuel Harrison, farmer, lawyer, mill owner, politician, judge and 1st Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada (d.1867) 1842 March 4 Born - March 4 - Hector Berthelot, lawyer, journalist and publisher (died 1895) 1848 March 4 March 4 - The so-called Great Ministry of Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine begins. 1868 March 4 March 4 — Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario established 1883 March 4 Born - March 4 - Sam Langford, boxer (d.1956) 1892 March 4 Born - March 4 – J.-Eugène Bissonnette, politician and physician 1895 March 4 March 4 - John Herbert Turner becomes premier of British Columbia 1901 March 4 Born - March 4 — Wilbur R. Franks, scientist and inventor (d.1986) 1923 March 4 Born - March 4 - Stanley Haidasz, politician (d.2009) 1933 March 4 Born - March 4 - James Jerome, jurist, politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d.2005) 1940 March 4 Born - March 4 - Nellie Cournoyea, former politician and 6th Premier of the Northwest Territories and the first female premier of a Canadian territory 1941 March 4 March 4: All Japanese Canadians are registered by the government 1945 March 4 Born - March 4 - Patrick Boyer, politician and university professor 1952 March 4 Born - March 4 – Svend Robinson, politician, Canada's first openly homosexual elected official and prominent activist for gay rights 1954 March 4 Born - March 4 – Catherine O'Hara, actress 1966 March 4 March 4: The Munsinger Affair is Canada's first major political sex scandal 1971 March 4 March 4 - Prime Minister Trudeau weds Margaret Sinclair 1975 March 4 March 4 - Television cameras are allowed to film in Parliament 1983 March 4 March 4 - Bertha Wilson is appointed Canada's first female Supreme Court justice 1986 March 4 Died - March 4 - Elizabeth Smart, poet and novelist (b.1913) 1986 March 4 Died - March 4 - Richard Manuel, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist (b.1943) 1993 March 4 March 4 - Canadian soldiers shoot and kill a Somali man outside their base in Somalia 1994 March 4 Died - March 4 – John Candy, comedian and actor (born 1950) 2001 March 4 March 4 - Bruce Cockburn is inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. 2002 March 4 March 4 - Federal government allows stem cell research using human embryos 2009 March 4 Died - March 4 - Yvon Cormier, wrestler (born 1938) 2009 March 4 U.S. Steel announced the closure of the Stelco Lake Erie Works in Nanticoke, Ontario due to the increasingly worse effects of the global economic slowdown. While it may have decreased the local pollution levels, the lockout has affected at least 12,000 Ca 2010 March 4 Died - March 4 - Arthur Menzies, diplomat (born 1917) 2010 March 4 Died - March 4 - André Bouchard, ecologist and environmentalist (born 1946)