About March 4
March 4, 2025 is the 63rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 302 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 350 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.
- 932 –Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
- 1152 –Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
- 1461 –Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
- 1789 –In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.
- 1791 –A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
- 1804 –Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
- 1848 –Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
- 1908 –The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
- 1909 –U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution’s Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State
- 1941 –World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands.
- 1944 –World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
- 1957 –The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
- 1960 –The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100.
- 1966 –A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
- 1980 –Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe’s first black prime minister.
- 1996 –A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, US, causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
- 1998 –Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
- 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.
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