March 4 is the 63th day of the year (64st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 302 days remaining until the end of the year.
Railways
- The will of Sultan Abdülaziz to examine the company on March 4, 1873 Hirsch acting against the contract. On March 7, 1873, the decision of Meclis-i Vukela was published.
- 1882 – The first electric tram goes into service in England.
Events
- 1493 - Explorer Christopher Columbus arrived in America on his ship Niña.
- 1656 – Vaka-i Vakvakiye: Soldiers rioting for low-set money and undelivered salaries, IV. With Mehmed's approval, they had some palace lords executed.
- 1774 - The Orion Nebula was first observed by William Herschel.
- 1791 - Vermont becomes the 14th state of the USA.
- 1877 – First performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Ballet.
- 1894 – Great fire in Shanghai: More than 1000 buildings are destroyed.
- 1923 – Izmir Economy Congress, which started with Mustafa Kemal Pasha's speech on 17 February, came to an end. Misak-ı İktisadî was accepted at the congress.
- 1924 - Happy Birthday to You song released by Clayton F. Summy.
- 1924 – Caliph Abdülmecit Efendi and members of the Ottoman Dynasty were expelled abroad.
- 1925 – The Law of Recognition of Sukun, which gives extraordinary powers to the government, was accepted in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
- 1929 – The Law of Recognition was repealed.
- 1934 – Ankara Radio started broadcasting.
- 1940 – In the Sixth Balkan Wrestling Championship held in Istanbul, the Turkish team won five championships and became the champion for the sixth time.
- 1946 - Frank Sinatra's debut album The Voice of Frank Sinatra, released by Columbia Records.
- 1949 – In the Soviet Union, Molotov was dismissed from the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs without justification.
- 1952 - Ronald Reagan married his second wife, Nancy Davis, in Los Angeles.
- 1954 - First successful kidney transplant performed in Boston.
- 1955 – Minneapolis Moline Turkish Tractor and Agricultural Machinery Factory, established with Turkish-American cooperation, started tractor production in Ankara by assembling. Today, it continues its activities under the name of Türk Traktör.
- 1964 – The UN Security Council decided to send international forces to Cyprus.
- 1965 – The Government of Suat Hayri Ürgüplü received a vote of confidence with 231 acceptances, 200 rejections and 1 abstention given by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu.
- 1966 – A Canadian passenger plane explodes on landing in Tokyo, killing 64.
- 1967 – In the CHP Youth Branch statement, it was demanded that "Ekizler", led by Turhan Feyzioğlu, be expelled from the party.
- 1970 - The French submarine "Eurydice" explodes.
- 1977 – Earthquake in Southern and Eastern Europe: More than 1500 dead.
- 1979 - Jupiter's rings are visible in photographs sent by Voyager I.
- 1981 – Turkey's Paris Labor Attaché, Reşat Moralı, died as a result of the attack of the Armenian organization ASALA militants. Religious official Tecelli Arı, who was seriously injured in the incident, also died a day later.
- 1991 – 2 people were killed and 25 people were injured as a result of firing on the crowd marching in the İdil district of Mardin. Three days later, a group marching in Mardin's Dargeçit district to protest the events in İdil opened fire, 1 person was killed and 7 people were injured.
- 1992 – The Jews, who escaped from Spain due to the pressure of the Inquisition and took refuge in the Ottoman Empire, celebrated the 500th anniversary of their arrival in Turkey.
- 1995 – Michael Johnson sets the 400m World record indoors: 44,63 s.
- 1997 - US President Bill Clinton bans human cloning research.
- 1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp passed directly over the Sun.
- 1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that workplace sexual harassment laws apply when both parties are the same sex.
- 2000 – The Supreme Court of Appeals General Assembly approved names of Kurdish origin for the first time.
- 2002 – Moderate Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova is elected the first President of Kosovo.
- 2003 – A bomb hidden in a backpack explodes at an airport in the south of the Philippines, killing 21.
- 2005 – German Matthias Jeschke broke the record for “highest position climbed by a vehicle” by reaching 90 meters in Ojos del Salado in his Toyota Landcruiser 6 V6358.
- 2012 – Russian Vladimir Putin was elected President for the second time with 59,3% of the votes in Russia as a result of the elections.
Births
- 624 – Hasan bin Ali, 5th Islamic Caliph (d. 669)
- 1188 – Blanche of Castile, Queen of France as consort of Louis VIII (d. 1252)
- 1394 – Henrique the sailor, Prince of Portugal (d. 1460)
- 1526 - Henry Carey, King VIII. Henry's son by Mary Boleyn (d. 1596)
- 1574 – Carl Gyllenhielm, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1650)
- 1634 – Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Polish nobleman, philosopher, and soldier (d. 1689)
- 1678 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
- 1769 – Kavalalı Mehmet Ali Pasha, Governor of Ottoman Egypt, Khedive of Egypt and Sudan (d. 1849)
- 1819 – Narcyza Żmichowska, Polish novelist and poet (d. 1876)
- 1829 – Samuel Rawson Gardiner, English historian (d. 1902)
- 1854 – Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945)
- 1858 – Alfred Blaschko, German dermatologist (d. 1922)
- 1863 – Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist (d. 1947)
- 1864 – Alejandro Lerroux, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1949)
- 1874 – Jan Černý, prime minister of Czechoslovakia (d. 1959)
- 1875 – Mihály Károlyi, first president of Hungary (d. 1955)
- 1887 – Willy Meller, German sculptor (d. 1974)
- 1889 Hong Saik, Japanese soldier (d. 1948)
- 1892 – Yi Kwang-su, Korean novelist, author, poet, and journalist (d. 1950)
- 1898 – Georges Dumézil, French historian and linguist (d. 1986)
- 1898 – Hans Krebs, Nazi Germany Infantry General and head of the OKH (d. 1945)
- 1898 – Dora Diamant, Polish actress (d. 1952)
- 1913 – John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
- 1928 – Fikret Tabeyev, Soviet Tatar politician, ambassador, party leader, founder of the Communist Party of the Republic of Tatarstan (d. 2015)
- 1932 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer and civil rights activist (d. 2008)
- 1938 – Kito Lorenc, German writer
- 1947 – David Franzoni, American screenwriter and filmmaker
- 1947 – Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
- 1947 – Kamil Sönmez, Turkish folk music artist, film and theater actor (d. 2012)
- 1949 – Sergey Bagapsh, Abkhazian politician
- 1951 – Kenny Dalglish, Scottish football player and manager
- 1953 – Agustí Villaronga, Spanish film director, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2023)
- 1954 – Catherine O'Hara, Canadian-American stage and film actress
- 1954 – François Fillon, French politician
- 1954 – Ricky Ford, American jazz musician and saxophonist
- 1955 – Dominique Pinon, French actress
- 1963 – Jason Newsted, American musician (metallica, voivod)
- 1966 – Wash Westmoreland, British director
- 1968 – Kiriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politician
- 1968 - Patsy Kensit, English actress
- 1970 – Kuddusi Müftüoğlu, Turkish football referee
- 1971 – Seher Dilovan, Turkish folk music artist
- 1974 - Ariel Ortega, Argentine football player
- 1975 - Patrick Femerling is a retired German basketball player.
- 1977 – Didem Süer, Turkish basketball player
- 1977 – Ercan Yılmaz, Turkish poet and writer
- 1980 – Omar Bravo, Mexican football player
- 1981 – Ariza Makukula is a Portuguese former national football player of Zaire descent.
- 1982 – Landon Donovan is an American retired professional football player.
- 1982 – Yasemin Mori, Turkish singer and songwriter
- 1983 – Samuel Contesti, French-Italian figure skater
- 1985 – Whitney Port, American television character and model (The Hills, The City)
- 1985 – Angela White Australian pornography star
- 1986 – Tom De Mul, Belgian football player
- 1986 – Mike Krieger, Brazilian entrepreneur and computer programmer
- 1986 - Erin O'Kelley, American beauty queen
- 1986 – Margo Harshman, American actress
- 1987 – Tamzin Merchant, English actress
- 1988 – Gal Mekel is an Israeli national professional basketball player.
- 1990 – Andrea Bowen, American actress
- 1990 – Draymond Green, American professional basketball player
- 1990 – Fran Merida, Spanish football player
- 1992 – Bernd Leno, German football player
- 1992 – Erik Lamela, Argentine football player
- 1992 – Jared Sullinger, American basketball player
- 1993 – Bobbi Kristina Brown, American TV star, singer, and model (d. 2015)
- 1993 – Ahmet Düverioğlu, Jordanian basketball player
- 1995 – Chlöe Howl, English singer-songwriter
Deaths
- 1193 – Salahaddin Eyyubi, Ayyubid Sultan who stood against the Crusader attacks (b. 1138)
- 1238 – II. Yuri, Between 1212-1216 and 1218-1238, he was the principality of Russia at the time of the Mongol invasion (b. 1189)
- 1615 – Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
- 1832 – Jean-François Champollion, French philologist (b. 1790)
- 1851 – James Richardson, American explorer (b. 1809)
- 1852 – Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
- 1856 – Damat Georgian Halil Rifat Pasha, Ottoman statesman and Chief Admiral (b. 1795)
- 1858 – Matthew C. Perry, American naval officer (b. 1794)
- 1906 – John Schofield, American general and politician (b. 1831)
- 1916 – Franz Marc, German painter (b. 1880)
- 1936 – Lou Marsh, Canadian referee and journalist (b. 1879)
- 1941 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1858)
- 1948 – Antonin Artaud, French playwright, poet and theater actor (b. 1896)
- 1952 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English bacteriologist, pathologist, and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
- 1967 – Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1885)
- 1976 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
- 1984 – Ernest Buckler, Canadian novelist and short story writer (b. 1908)
- 1986 – Osman Kibar, Turkish politician and former Izmir Mayor (became famous as “Asphalt Osman” because of his intense asphalt work in Izmir) (b. 1909)
- 1991 – Yadigar Ejder, Turkish actor (b. 1951)
- 1993 – Miguel de Molina, Spanish flamenco singer and actor (b. 1908)
- 1994 – John Candy, Canadian actor and comedian (b. 1950)
- 2010 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhaz politician (b. 1945)
- 2011 – Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1925)
- 2011 – Alenuş Teryan, Iranian Armenian astronomer and physicist (b. 1921)
- 2012 – Hasan Eryılmaz, Turkish policeman (b. 1949)
- 2012 – Joan Taylor, American actress (b. 1923)
- 2016 – Thomas G. Morris, American politician (b. 1919)
- 2016 – Bud Collins, American journalist and sports commentator and presenter (b. 1929)
- 2016 – Pat Conroy, American novelist and author (b. 1945)
- 2017 – Margaret Roberts, South African botanist (b. 1937)
- 2017 – Clayton Yeutter, American politician (b. 1930)
- 2018 – Davide Astori, Italian football player (b. 1987)
- 2019 – Keith Charles Flint, English musician (b. 1969)
- 2019 – Blake Theodore Lindsay, Canadian professional ice hockey player (b. 1925)
- 2019 – Robert DeProspero, American intelligence officer and agent (b. 1938)
- 2019 – Luke Perry, American actor and dubbing artist (b. 1966)
- 2020 – Adelaide Chiozzo, Brazilian actress and accordionist (b. 1931)
- 2020 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian diplomat and fifth secretary-general of the United Nations (b. 1920)
- 2021 – Kemal Amir, Egyptian politician and senior soldier (b. 1942)
- 2021 – Karima Brown, South African journalist, television presenter, radio broadcaster (b. 1967)
- 2021 – Phil Chisnall, former English professional football player (b. 1942)
- 2021 – Osman Erbaş, Turkish soldier (b. 1962)
- 2021 – Paulette Guinchard-Kunstler, French politician (b. 1949)
- 2021 – Heinz Klevenow Jr., German actor and artistic director (b. 1940)
- 2022 – Guido Anzile, Italian-French racing cyclist (b. 1928)
- 2022 – Anne Beaumanoir, French neurologist and human rights activist (b. 1923)
- 2022 – Valentin Knish, Russian politician (b. 1937)
- 2022 – Akrep Nalan, Turkish pop music singer and actress (b. 1954)
- 2022 – Mitchell Ryan, American actor (b. 1934)
Holidays and special occasions
- World Day to Fight Sexual Abuse
