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
- 932 –Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
- 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.
- 1461 –Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
- 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.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
- 1814 –Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
- 1882 –Britain’s first electric trams run in east London.
- 1899 –Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland, killing over 300.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1945 –Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
- 1970 –French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
- 1974 –People magazine is published for the first time.
- 1976 –The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
- 1980 –Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe’s first black prime minister.
- 2002 –Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
- 2009 –The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
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