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
- 51 –Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
- 932 –Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
- 1351 –Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
- 1386 –Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
- 1461 –Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
- 1628 –The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
- 1790 –France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
- 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).
- 1791 –Vermont is admitted to the U.S. as the fourteenth state.
- 1794 –The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
- 1848 –Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
- 1861 –The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the “Stars and Bars”) is adopted.
- 1921 –Warren Harding becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio, via KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh.
- 1933 –The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
- 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.
- 1983 –Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
- 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.
- 2007 –Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world’s first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
- 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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