March 4th is the only calendar date that is also a complete sentence ("March Forth").
	British astronomy writer Sir Patrick Moore (Observer's Book of Astronomy, New Guide to the Planets) was born on this day in 1923
	Canadian author Richard B. Wright (Clara Callan) was born on this day in 1937
	Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (Strange Days: My Life With And Without Jim Morrison, The Keltiad) was born on this day in 1946
	James Ellroy (The Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential) was born on this day in 1948
	Ernest Hemingway completed The Old Man and the Sea on this day in 1952
	On this day in 2008, The New York Times reported that Margaret B. Jones's Love and Consequences, allegedly a memoir of growing up in a gang-controlled neighbourhood, was a fraud. The embarrassed publisher,Penguin Books recalled all copies, and the Times itself had only days earlier published a glowing review of the book.
	Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides, The Great Santini) died on this day in 2016