About March 4
March 4, 2024 is the 64th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 302 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 331 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.
- 1351 –Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
- 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.
- 1789 –In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.
- 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 –A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
- 1791 –Vermont is admitted to the U.S. as the fourteenth state.
- 1804 –Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
- 1848 –Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
- 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.
- 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.
- 1933 –The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
- 1966 –A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
- 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.
- 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.
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