About March 4
March 4, 2024 is the 64th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 302 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 331 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 4
- 852 –Croatian Duke Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
- 1238 –The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
- 1386 –Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
- 1493 –Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
- 1665 –English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
- 1797 –In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.
- 1804 –Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
- 1814 –Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
- 1899 –Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland, killing over 300.
- 1908 –The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
- 1913 –First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
- 1917 –Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
- 1918 –The USS Cyclops departs from Barbados and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle.
- 1933 –Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
- 1933 –The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
- 1944 –World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
- 1966 –A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
- 1977 –The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
- 2001 –4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 1 person. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
- 2001 –Hintze Ribeiro disaster: A bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
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