About March 4
March 4, 2025 is the 63rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 302 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 350 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 4
- 306 –Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
- 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.
- 1665 –English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
- 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 –Vermont is admitted to the U.S. as the fourteenth state.
- 1814 –Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1908 –The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
- 1918 –The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
- 1941 –World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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