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
- 852 –Croatian Duke Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
- 1238 –The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1913 –First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
- 1918 –The USS Cyclops departs from Barbados and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1986 –The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley’s Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
- 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.
- 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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