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

## Births

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