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My Watchlist Articles
The following Articles is of my interest and is under my watch list.
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On this day
March 4: Feast day of Saint Casimir (Catholicism), Mardi Gras / Shrove Tuesday (2025)
- 1386 – Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania, was crowned King of Poland as Władysław II Jagiełło (pictured), beginning the Jagiellonian dynasty.
- 1773 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart departed Italy after the last of his three journeys there.
- 1899 – Cyclone Mahina struck Bathurst Bay, Queensland, killing more than 300 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in Australian history.
- 1918 – A case of influenza was recorded at Camp Funston, Kansas, conventionally marking the beginning of the Spanish flu pandemic.
- 2017 – Construction began on a 69-metre (226 ft) statue of the Buddha at Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen in Bangkok.
- Hindal Mirza (b. 1519)
- Rosalind Pitt-Rivers (b. 1907)
- Harold Barrowclough (d. 1972)
- Gary Gygax (d. 2008)
In the news , Today
- Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost (rendering shown) successfully soft-lands on the Moon as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
- At the Academy Awards, Anora wins five awards, including Best Picture.
- In the German federal election, the CDU/CSU, led by Friedrich Merz, wins the most seats in the Bundestag.
- Archaeologists announce that the empty tomb Wadi C-4 near Luxor, Egypt, was that of the pharaoh Thutmose II.
- At the British Academy Film Awards, Conclave wins four awards, including Best Film.
Featured Article of the day
James Madison (1751–1836) was a Founding Father of the United States and its fourth president, serving from March 4, 1809, to March 4, 1817. Dubbed the "Father of the Constitution" for his role in creating the U.S. Constitution, he had been dissatisfied with the weak government under the Articles of Confederation, and helped organize the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He then joined Alexander Hamilton and John Jay in writing The Federalist Papers, a series of essays that remains prominent, and served in Congress. With Thomas Jefferson, Madison organized the Democratic-Republican Party, and was Jefferson's secretary of state from 1801 to 1809. Madison was elected president in 1808, was re-elected in 1812, and led the U.S. in the War of 1812, which convinced him of the need for a stronger federal government. He presided over the creation of the Second Bank of the United States and the passage of the protective Tariff of 1816. Historians have ranked him as an above-average president. (Full article...)