What happened this day in history March 4

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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