What are the important events that happened on March 4? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 4: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 4 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 19, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,017,440 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexacontatrigon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,456 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 4 Historical Events
- 51 –Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
- 1386 –Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
- 1917 –Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
- 1921 –Warren Harding becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio, via KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh.
- 1945 –Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
- 1957 –The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
- 1974 –People magazine is published for the first time.
- 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.
Who were born on March 4?
- 1904 –Joseph Schmidt Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)
- 1908 –T.R.M. Howard, American civil rights leader (d. 1976)
- 1938 –Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish diplomat and researcher
- 1941 –Linda Obermoeller, American painter (d. 1990)
- 1959 –Rick Ardon, Australian news presenter
- 1967 –Tim Vine, English actor and comedian
- 1971 –Claire Baker, Scottish politician
- 1972 –Nocturno Culto, Norwegian musician
- 1976 –Vic Wunderle, American archer
- 1980 –Kamalinee Mukherjee, (Kamalini Mukherjee) Indian film actress
Who died on March 4?
- 1977 –Miles C. Allgood, U.S. Representative from Alabama (b. 1878)
- 1977 –Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925)
- 1981 –Odette Barencey, French film actress (b. 1893)
- 1984 –Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1986 –Albert L. Lehninger, American biochemist (b. 1917)
- 1996 –Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b. 1912)
- 1999 –Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1908)
- 2000 –Hermann Brück, German-born UK astronomer (b. 1905)
- 2006 –Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator/cartoonist (b. 1929)
- 2010 –Joanne Simpson, American meteorologist (b. 1923)
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