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
- 1351 –Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
- 1628 –The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
- 1665 –English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
- 1675 –John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
- 1681 –Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
- 1797 –In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.
- 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.
- 1890 –The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1710 ft long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.
- 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
- 1933 –Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
- 1944 –World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
- 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.
- 1980 –Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe’s first black prime minister.
- 1983 –Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
- 1986 –The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley’s Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
- 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.
- 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.
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