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
- 306 –Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
- 852 –Croatian Duke Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
- 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.
- 1519 –Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.
- 1628 –The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
- 1804 –Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
- 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
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands.
- 1945 –Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
- 1957 –The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
- 1960 –The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100.
- 1966 –A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
- 1970 –French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
- 1974 –People magazine is published for the first time.
- 1977 –The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
- 1983 –Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
- 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.
- 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.
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