About March 4

March 4, 2021 is the 63rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 302 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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

What Happened On March 4

  • 1152 –
    Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
  • 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.
  • 1628 –
    The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
  • 1675 –
    John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
  • 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.
  • 1882 –
    Britain’s first electric trams run in east London.
  • 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
  • 1917 –
    Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
  • 1918 –
    The USS Cyclops departs from Barbados and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle.
  • 1921 –
    Warren Harding becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio, via KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh.
  • 1943 –
    World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the South West Pacific comes to an end.
  • 1945 –
    Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
  • 1960 –
    The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100.
  • 1974 –
    People magazine is published for the first time.
  • 1985 –
    The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
  • 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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