About March 4

March 4, 2020 is the 64th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 302 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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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 345 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On March 4

  • 932 –
    Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
  • 1386 –
    Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
  • 1493 –
    Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
  • 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.
  • 1794 –
    The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
  • 1861 –
    The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the “Stars and Bars”) is adopted.
  • 1882 –
    Britain’s first electric trams run in east London.
  • 1913 –
    First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
  • 1917 –
    Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
  • 1918 –
    The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
  • 1933 –
    Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
  • 1943 –
    World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the South West Pacific comes to an end.
  • 1944 –
    World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
  • 1957 –
    The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
  • 1974 –
    People magazine is published for the first time.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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