About March 4
March 4, 2022 is the 63rd day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 302 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 324 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.
- 1152 –Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
- 1461 –Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
- 1519 –Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
- 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 –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.
- 1797 –In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.
- 1804 –Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
- 1814 –Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
- 1933 –Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
- 1943 –World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the South West Pacific comes to an end.
- 1944 –World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
- 1945 –Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
- 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.
- 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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