4 Mairch

The 4t o Mairch is the 63rd day o the year (64t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 302 days ti come.

 Events 
1351 – Ramathibodi becomes Keeng o Siam.
1386 – Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crouned Keeng o Poland.
1519 – Hernán Cortés lands in Mexico.
1769 – The Orion Nebula is observit bi Charles Messier.
1791 – Vermont becomes the 14t state o the Unitit States.
1793 – John Adams becomes the first Preses o the Unitit States tae tak office on 4 Mairch.
1861 – Abraham Lincoln becomes Preses o the Unitit States.
1877 – Swan Lake, bi Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, premieres at the Bolshoi in Moscow.
1890 – The Forth Brig, ane o the main brigs o the Central Belt o Scotland, opens.
1933 – Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes Preses o the Unitit States, as the last one tae tak office on 4 Mairch.
1943 – Warld War II: German U-boat U172 sinks Breetish passenger steamer "City of Pretoria" in the North Atlantic Ocean, killin 145 fowk.
1976 – Northren Ireland is put unner direct rule frae Lunnon.
1977 – A yirdquauk in Bucharest kills 1,500 fowk.
1980 – Robert Mugabe is electit Prime meenister o Zimbabwe.
2001 – A bomb explodes outside the offices o the BBC in Lunnon.
2001 – A brig collapses in northern Portugal, killin 70 fowk.
2007 – Online votin is used Estonie's parliamentary election.
2012 – A munitions dump fire in Brazzaville, Republic o the Congo, kills o'er 100 fowk.
2012 – Vladimir Putin is electit Preses o Roushie.
2018 – The Social Democratic Pairty o Germany votes in favour o a renewed coaleetion wi Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, tae govern Germany.
2018 – Italy's general election results in a hung pairlament, wi richt-weeng an populist pairties gainin seats.
2018 – Umwhile Roushie agent Sergei Skripal an his dochter Yulia are poisoned in the ceety o Salisbury, Wiltshire, Ingland.
2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Faroe Islands, French Guiana, Hungary, Poland an Slovenie record thair first COVID-19 cases.
2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Unitit Kinrick's first daith frae COVID-19 is confirmed.

 Births 
1394 – Henry the Navigator, Portuguese son o John I o Portugal (d. 1460)
1678 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian componer (d. 1741)
1756 – Sir Henry Raeburn, Scots penter (d. 1823)
1918 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (d. 2012)
1923 – Patrick Moore, Inglis astronomer (d. 2012)
1932 – Miriam Makeba, Sooth African sangster (d. 2008)
1936 – Jim Clark, Scots racin driver (d. 1968)
1949 – Sergei Bagapsh, Preses o Abkhazie (d. 2011)
1950 – Rick Perry, American politeecian
1951 – Kenny Dalglish, Scots fitbawer an manager
1952 – Umberto Tozzi, Italian rock muisicker, sangster an componer
1954 – François Fillon, French politeecian
1965 – Khaled Hosseini, Afghan-American writer
1968 – Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politeecian, Prime meenister o Greece
1968 – Patsy Kensit, Inglis actress
1968 – Christina McKelvie, Scots politeecian
1971 – Claire Baker, Scots politeecian
1973 – Dave Doogan, Scots politeecian
1973 – Penny Mordaunt, Inglis politeecian
1982 – Landon Donovan, American fitbawer
1987 – Gordon Reid, Scots rugby union player
1990 – Andrea Bowen, American actress

 Daiths 
1193 - Saladin, Sultan o Egyp
1238 - Joan o Ingland, Queen o Scotland (b. 1210)
1304 - Robert de Brus, 6t Laird o Annandale (b. 1243)
1619 - Anne o Denmark, Queen o Scotland an England (b. 1574)
1832 - Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptologist (b. 1790) 
1852 - Nikolai Gogol, Roushie writer (b. 1809)
1941 - Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist (b. 1858)
1994 - John Candy, Canadian actor an comedian (b. 1950)
2011 - Simon van der Meer, Dutch pheesicist (b. 1925)
2019 - King Kong Bundy, American profeesional wrestler (b. 1957)
2019 - Eric Caldow, Scots fitbawer (b. 1934)
2020 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions (b. 1920)

 Halidays 
 The 4t o Mairch is the feast day o the follaein saunts:
St. Casimir
Bl. Humbert
St. Lucius I
St. Adrian
St. Appian
St. Basil an Companions
St. Basinus
St. Casimir o Poland
St. Felix o Rhuys
St. Owen
St. Peter o Pappacarbone
St. Placide Viel

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Category:Days o the year