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What does @Wikipedia say about 4th March through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?
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4th March 2025 🗓️ : Death
Roy Ayers, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, vibraphonist, and producer (born 1940)
"Roy Edward Ayers Jr. was an American vibraphonist, record producer, and composer. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several studio albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped..."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ayers
4th March 2020 🗓️ : Event
Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to walk over the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua.
"Nikolas Wallenda is an American acrobat, aerialist, daredevil, high wire artist, and author. He is known for his high-wire performances without a safety net. He holds 11 Guinness World Records for various acrobatic feats, and is best known as the first person to walk a..."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nik_Wallenda
4th March 2016 🗓️ : Death
Zhou Xiaoyan, Chinese soprano and educator (born 1917)
"Zhou Xiaoyan was a Chinese vocal pedagogue and classical soprano. Dubbed by The New York Times as "China's First Lady of Opera", she was considered to be the first important instructor of Western opera in China...."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Xiaoyan
4th March 1976 🗓️ : Event
The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland, resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
"The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention (NICC) was an elected body set up in 1975 by the United Kingdom Labour government of Harold Wilson as an..."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Constitutional_Convention
4th March 1926 🗓️ : Birth
Don Rendell, English saxophonist and flute player (died 2015)
"Donald Percy Rendell was an English jazz musician and arranger. Mainly active as a tenor saxophonist, he also played soprano saxophone, flute, and clarinet...."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Rendell
4th March 1826 🗓️ : Birth
Theodore Judah, American engineer, founded the Central Pacific Railroad (died 1863)
"Theodore Dehone Judah was an American civil engineer who was a central figure in the original promotion, establishment, and design of the first transcontinental railroad. He found investors for what became the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR). As chief engineer, he performed..."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Judah
4th March 🗓️ : Holiday
Christian feast day:
March 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
"March 3 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 5..."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_4_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
