March 4 is the 63rd day of the Gregorian Calendar year
Pungenday, Chaos 63, 3185 YOLD (discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.6.5.4 by the Mayan Long Count
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...
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On this day in history it was a seriously ugly day for indigenous peoples in the Americas:
1493 – Christopher Columbus arrived back in Lisbon.
1519 – Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico
1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony received a Royal charter
1675 – John Flamsteed became the first Astronomer Royal of England.
1681 – Charles II granted a land charter to William Penn
1789 – The first Congress of the US met and put the US Constitution into effect.
1791 – Vermont was admitted to the United States.
1917 – Jeannette Rankin became the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
1933 – Frances Perkins became the US Secretary of Labor, the first female cabinet member.
1960 – The freighter La Coubre was blown up at dockside in Havana, probably by the US
Born this day in:
1394 – Henry the Navigator, "explorer"
1678 – Antonio Vivaldi, violinist and composer
1745 – Casimir Pulaski, the father of US cavalry
1778 – Robert Emmet, nationalist, rebel. patriot, commander
1901 – Wilbur R. Franks, scientist
1904 – George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist
1908 – Thomas Shaw, American singer and guitarist
1928 – Alan Sillitoe, writer, "angry young man"
1931 – Alice Rivlin, economist, debt reductionist, member of the catfood commission
1932 – Miriam Makeba, singer, songwriter, and actress, "Mama Africa"
1932 – Ed Roth, illustrator, "Big Daddy Roth"
1936 – Eric Allandale, trombonist and songwriter
1944 – Bobby Womack, singer and songwriter
1947 – Bob Lewis, guitarist, co-founder of Devo
1961 – Ray Mancini, pugilist, "Boom Boom"
Died this day in:
1852 – Nikolai Gogol, author and playwright
1858 – Matthew C. Perry, diplomat
1944 – Louis Capone, businessman, unrelated to Al, another businessman
1976 – Walter H. Schottky, physicist and engineer
1989 – Tiny Grimes, guitarist
1993 – Art Hodes, pianist
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
National Grammar Day (Uied States)
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Music goes here, iirc, well,
Vivaldi
Thomas Shaw
Miriam Makeba
Ray Mancini
Tiny Grimes
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Image is Sachin Joshi's English Grammar Resources
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