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.
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
- 51 –Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
- 1351 –Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
- 1461 –Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
- 1519 –Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.
- 1908 –The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
- 1945 –Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
- 1980 –Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe’s first black prime minister.
- 1991 –Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq’s invasion.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on March 4?
- 1702 –Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee (d. 1724)
- 1756 –Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823)
- 1913 –John H. Fremlin, English nuclear physicist (d. 1995)
- 1948 –Veljko Despot, Croatian music journalist and record business entrepreneur
- 1951 –Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1954 –St Clair L. Palmer, vocalist (Sweet Sensation)
- 1961 –Mahito Ōba, Japanese voice actor and narrator
- 1972 –Jos Verstappen, Dutch racing driver
- 1977 –Laura Jansen, Dutch singer-songwriter
- 1993 –Jenna Boyd, American actress
Who died on March 4?
- 1851 –James Richardson, British explorer (b. 1809)
- 1944 –Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (b. 1897) (executed)
- 1960 –Herbert O'Conor, 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland (b. 1896)
- 1960 –Leonard Warren, American baritone (b. 1911)
- 1978 –John Meighan, Irish Clann na Talmhan politician (b. 1891)
- 1992 –Néstor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (b. 1930)
- 1994 –Chris Seydou, Malian fashion designer (b. 1949)
- 1998 –Donald Rodney, British artist (b. 1961)
- 2007 –Natalie Bodanya, American soprano (b. 1908)
- 2008 –Gary Gygax, Fantasy author and role-playing games creator. (b. 1938)
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