📜 This Day in History
March 4
306Roman Herculian guard Adrian of Nicomedia, who had converted to Christianity after being impressed with the faith of Christians that he had been torturing, was martyred.- 1773Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart departed Italy after the last of his three journeys there.
- 1848King Charles Albert of Sardinia signs the Statuto Albertino, which would later serve as the constitution for the Kingdom of Italy.
- 1941Second World War: British Commandos successfully executed a raid on the Lofoten Islands in German-occupied Norway.
- 1987U.S. president Ronald Reagan made a nationally televised address in which he accepted full responsibility for illegal actions in the Iran–Contra affair.
- 2017Construction began on a 69-metre (226 ft) statue of the Buddha at Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen in Bangkok.
