{"id":501367,"date":"2026-03-03T16:51:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/march-4th-anniversaries\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:05:48","slug":"march-4th-anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/march-4th-anniversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"March 4th Anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Santo Domingo.-<\/strong>\u00a0The events of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/estilo\/efemerides\/marzo-y-conmemoraciones-del-mes\/\">March 4<\/a><\/strong>, are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history.\u00a0<strong>Below, the main events of March 4:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/category\/estilo\/efemerides\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>World Obesity Day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>International HPV Awareness Day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Saints:<\/strong>&nbsp;Saints Casimir, Basil, and Eugene.<a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/category\/estilo\/efemerides\/\"><\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>National: March 4th anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1493.<\/strong>&nbsp;Admiral Crist\u00f3bal Col\u00f3n arrives in Lisbon and writes to the legal advisor of the Catholic Monarchs about the virtues of the Island of Santo Domingo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1844.<\/strong>&nbsp;In La Vega, the sisters Ma. del Carmen, Ma. Francisca and Manuela Villa Del Orbe raise the Dominican flag for the first time in the Cibao, when the city pronounces itself in favor of independence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>- The French consul in Santo Domingo, Juchereau Saint Denys, issues a proclamation in which he echoes \u201calarming rumors about a possible Haitian attack against the new regime.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1884.<\/strong>&nbsp;Dominican ex-president Buenaventura B\u00e1ez dies in Puerto Rico.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1900.<\/strong>&nbsp;General Pedro Pep\u00edn (Perico), rises up against the government of Juan Isidro Jim\u00e9nes, but upon not obtaining the support he expected, lays down his arms.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1961.<\/strong>&nbsp;Monsignor Panal delivers a sermon in front of dictator Rafael Trujillo, in which he denounces \u201cthe abominable atheist, anti-clerical, anti-social, anti-Trujillista and pure communist campaign, which, for a short time, spokespersons of the national radio and press have been carrying out, in the most sacrilegious and infamous way\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1962.&nbsp;<\/strong>The first Dominican Agrarian League is established in the community of Juan L\u00f3pez Abajo, in Moca, during a meeting led by unionists Rangel Parra, Ram\u00f3n V\u00e1zquez, Prisco Morales and Jos\u00e9 G\u00f3mez Cerda.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1963.<\/strong>&nbsp;President Juan Bosch issues decree number nine, through which he provides austerity measures to readjust the country's economy, suppressing local and foreign positions and reducing salaries. He criticizes that money is wasted at the University of Santo Domingo and reduces its allocation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1972.<\/strong>&nbsp;Accordionist and typical singer Tatico Henr\u00edquez and the young Elba Chaljub Mejia, with whom he had a son, Fary Henr\u00edquez, get married.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1977.&nbsp;<\/strong>President Joaqu\u00edn Balaguer recommends to the Armed Forces and the PN to drop the lawsuit filed against the Perredeist leader Jos\u00e9 Fco. Pe\u00f1a G\u00f3mez, for his denunciation that the body of a police agent close to the UASD campus had been thrown from a military vehicle.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2005.<\/strong>&nbsp;The former president of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), Hatuey de Camps, resigns from that position, believing that the entity \u201cwas assaulted by mafiosi\u201d, and announces the creation of the Social Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRSD).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2015.<\/strong>&nbsp;The Ministry of Foreign Affairs orders the temporary closure of its consular missions accredited in Haiti, arguing the constant aggressions that have occurred in recent days in those diplomatic delegations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>- The Specialized Corps in Airport and Civil Aviation Security dishonorably cancels and for \u201ctreason\u201d the private ERD, AlexRam\u00edrez Ubri, who would have escorted the confessed drug trafficker Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo on his return to the country.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016.<\/strong>&nbsp;Frenchman Christophe Naudin arrives in the country, extradited by the Egyptian government, accused by the Dominican judicial authorities for his participation in the escape of two French pilots convicted of drug trafficking, as well as of association of wrongdoers and trafficking in migrants.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019.<\/strong>&nbsp;In the process of evaluating judges who aspire to repeat in the Supreme Court of Justice, the Attorney General, Jean Alain Rodr\u00edguez and Judge Miriam Germ\u00e1n Brito, clash after the former reads an anonymous communication in which the latter is accused of meeting privately with V\u00edctor D\u00edaz R\u00faa, one of those charged in the Odebrecht bribes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>- Singer and composer Anthony R\u00edos dies at the age of 68, after suffering from heart problems, for which he had been hospitalized on several occasions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2020.<\/strong>&nbsp;The plenary session of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) authorizes the recording of the vote count in the polling stations for the municipal elections on Sunday, March 15, a measure adopted by the electoral body through resolution 20-20.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021.<\/strong>&nbsp;The general directors of Public-Private Partnerships and the Airport Department announce, Sigmund Freund Mena and V\u00edctor Pichardo, respectively, the beginning of the elaboration of the preliminary draft for the construction of the Pedernales International Airport, a work considered decisive for the economic and tourist development of the border region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>International<\/strong>:&nbsp;<strong>March 4th anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1519.<\/strong>&nbsp;Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s's expedition arrives in front of the city of Tabasco, in present-day Mexico.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1678.<\/strong>&nbsp;Antonio Vivaldi,&nbsp;Italian&nbsp;Baroque&nbsp;composer, who influenced&nbsp;Johann Sebastian Bach, is born.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1789.<\/strong>&nbsp;In&nbsp;New York, the first&nbsp;United States Congress&nbsp;meets and declares the first&nbsp;Constitution of that nation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1793.&nbsp;<\/strong>The third&nbsp;Negrete Parliament&nbsp;begins in Chile&nbsp;between the&nbsp;Mapuches&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Spanish&nbsp;colonial authorities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1809.<\/strong>&nbsp;James Madison&nbsp;is elected fourth president of the United States, a position he holds until 1817.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1885.<\/strong>&nbsp;Guatemala decides to annex itself to El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras, to constitute a federative republic.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1960.<\/strong>&nbsp;The French merchant ship \u201cLa Cou\u00adbre\u201d explodes in the port of Havana, carrying a shipment of Belgian weapons to the island, causing the death of 70 people and 200 injured, an action attributed by Fidel Castro to the US.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1973.<\/strong>&nbsp;Eight guerrillas from the Black September group end their occupation of the Saudi Arabian embassy in Sudan, where they killed three diplomats.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1977.<\/strong>&nbsp;An earthquake affects Bucharest and other cities in Romania, causing a thousand deaths.<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><\/strong><strong>1983.<\/strong>&nbsp;The priest and laureate Nicaraguan poet, Ernesto Cardenal, kneels on the runway of the Managua airport, to receive the blessing he asked of<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>John Paul II, who instead gives him a severe reprimand that went around the world.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2000.<\/strong>&nbsp;Bosnian Croat nationalists promise to create their own state in Bosnia, which threatens the possibility of establishing lasting peace in the Balkan country.<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2008.&nbsp;<\/strong>John McCain becomes the Republican Party's presidential candidate after surpassing the minimum 1191 delegates to run for the White House.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2012.&nbsp;<\/strong>The President of Venezuela, Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, confirms that the tumor removed in Cuba was \u201ca recurrence\u201d of the cancer that affects him, for which he will receive radiotherapy treatment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016.&nbsp;<\/strong>The Brazilian Federal Police arrests former President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva as part of the operation investigating the corruption network in the state oil company Petrobras.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2018.&nbsp;<\/strong>The former Russian spy Skripal and his daughter Yulia, 33, visiting from Moscow, are found unconscious sitting on a public bench near a shopping center in Salisbury by a doctor and a nurse who were passing by, being taken to a hospital where the medical staff determined that the couple had been poisoned with a&nbsp;nerve agent.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019.<\/strong>&nbsp;Russian President Vladimir Putin suspends his country's participation in a nuclear arms treaty from which the United States had already decided to withdraw, arguing that Washington, and not Moscow, was violating the 1987 pact.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>- The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua announces in a statement its withdrawal from the negotiations between the government and the opposition, for considering that it is not \u201cineludible\u201d in the process.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2020.<\/strong>&nbsp;President Jovenel Moise swears in Joseph Jouthe as the new Haitian prime minister, without ratification in his position by Parliament, as stipulated by the Constitution, arguing that the body has been dissolved since last January.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021.<\/strong>&nbsp;In Mexico, as if it were part of a macabre carnival caravan, the Jalisco Nueva Generaci\u00f3n Cartel appeared in a video touring the streets of Aguililla, state of&nbsp;Michoac\u00e1n, boasting&nbsp;its firepower&nbsp;with two trucks modified from the wheels to the roof with iron plates as if they were homemade tanks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Births<\/strong>:&nbsp;<strong>March 4th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1678:<\/strong>&nbsp;Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer and violinist, famous for&nbsp;<em>The Four Seasons<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1786:<\/strong>&nbsp;Agustina de Arag\u00f3n, Spanish defender during the War of Independence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1889:<\/strong>&nbsp;Pearl White, American actress of silent films.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1904:<\/strong>&nbsp;Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish military man and politician.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1907:<\/strong>&nbsp;Mar\u00eda Branyas Morera, Spanish supercentenarian (d. 2024).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1913:<\/strong>&nbsp;John Garfield, American actor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1932:<\/strong>&nbsp;Ryszard Kapu\u015bci\u0144ski, Polish journalist and writer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1944:<\/strong>&nbsp;Bobby Womack, American singer and musician.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1948:<\/strong>&nbsp;James Ellroy, American writer of noir novels.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1952:<\/strong>&nbsp;Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1953:<\/strong>&nbsp;Emilio Estefan, Cuban musician and producer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1954:<\/strong>&nbsp;Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1962:<\/strong>&nbsp;Miriam D\u00edaz Aroca, Spanish actress.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1970:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u00c1lex Crivill\u00e9, Spanish motorcycle racer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1972:<\/strong>&nbsp;Jos Verstappen, Dutch Formula 1 driver.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1974:<\/strong>&nbsp;Ariel Ortega, Argentine footballer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1983:<\/strong>&nbsp;Drew Houston, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Dropbox.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1986:<\/strong>&nbsp;Park Min-Young, South Korean actress.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1999:<\/strong>&nbsp;Brooklyn Beckham, British model.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Deaths<\/strong>:&nbsp;<strong>March 4th anniversaries<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1193:&nbsp;<\/strong>Saladin, Egyptian sultan and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1811:<\/strong>&nbsp;Mariano Moreno, Argentine journalist and patriot, member of the Primera Junta.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1852:&nbsp;<\/strong>Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Ukrainian writer in the Russian language.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1858:<\/strong>&nbsp;Matthew Calbraith Perry, American naval officer who opened Japan to trade.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1993:<\/strong>&nbsp;Miguel de Molina, Spanish flamenco artist.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong>:&nbsp;John Candy, Canadian comedic actor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2004:<\/strong>&nbsp;Fernando L\u00e1zaro Carreter, philologist and director of the Royal Spanish Academy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2011:<\/strong>&nbsp;Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2019:<\/strong>&nbsp;Anthony R\u00edos, Dominican singer and songwriter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2024:<\/strong>&nbsp;Jos\u00e9 Augusto C\u00e9sar Le\u00f3n Asensio, Dominican businessman, former president of the Le\u00f3n Jimenes Group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.-\u00a0The events of March 4, are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history.\u00a0Below, the main events of March 4: Saints:&nbsp;Saints Casimir, Basil, and Eugene. 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