March 4: Day Of The Week
March 4, 2013 is the 63rd day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 302 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is lundi.
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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
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| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
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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.
March 4 Historical Events
- 1238 –The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
- 1628 –The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
- 1791 –Vermont is admitted to the U.S. as the fourteenth state.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1908 –The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
- 1917 –Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
- 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.
- 2001 –Hintze Ribeiro disaster: A bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
Who were born on March 4?
- 1856 –Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)
- 1878 –Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (d. 1947)
- 1893 –Charles Herbert Colvin, American aeronautical engineer (d. 1985)
- 1914 –Barbara Newhall Follett, American child prodigy novelist (disappeared 1939)
- 1947 –Gwen Welles, American actress (d. 1993)
- 1950 –Francis Affleck, Canadian race car driver (d. 1985)
- 1960 –Christina Sussiek, former German athlete
- 1968 –Patsy Kensit, English actress
- 1975 –Hawksley Workman, Canadian rock singer-songwriter
- 1978 –César Morales, Mexican bantamweight boxer
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