What are the important events that happened on March 4? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 4: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 4 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 20, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,709,510,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexacontatetragon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,091 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 4 Historical Events
1152 –
Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
1351 –
Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1628 –
The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
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
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.
1974 –
People magazine is published for the first time.
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.
Who were born on March 4?
1602 –
Kanō Tan'yū, Japanese painter (d. 1674)
1901 –
Wilbur R. Franks, Canadian scientist (d. 1986)
1931 –
William Henry Keeler, American Roman Catholic Archbishop
1958 –
Massimo Mascioletti, Italian rugby player and coach
1961 –
Mahito Ōba, Japanese voice actor and narrator
1973 –
Len Wiseman, American director
1974 –
Karol Kučera, Slovak tennis player
1975 –
Kirsten Bolm, German hurdler
1984 –
Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress
1984 –
Spencer Larsen, American football player
Who died on March 4?
1172 –
Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147)
1866 –
Alexander Campbell, Irish founder of the Disciples of Christ (b. 1788)
1915 –
William Willett, English campaigner for daylight saving time (b. 1856)
1944 –
René Lefebvre, martyr of the French Resistance (b. 1879)
1976 –
Nikolai Semashko, Soviet sports administrator (b. 1907)
1980 –
J. F. A. McManus, Canadian pathologist (b. 1911)
1982 –
Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-born English novelist (b. 1912)
1996 –
Johnny Sauer, American football player, coach, and broadcaster (b. 1925)
1998 –
Jules Fontaine Sambwa, Zairean political officeholder and economist (b. 1940)
2010 –
Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician (b. 1945)
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