Wikipedia:Main Page history/2016 March 4

The

Sitatunga

• ... that the ears of the sitatunga (pictured) are so specialized that they can pinpoint the direction of the origin of a sound?
• ... that Bas van Bavel has linked Dutch cleanliness to the production of cheese?
• ... that the family-run New Cheshire Salt Works was said to have had a "magnificent" Art Deco vacuum evaporator, decorated with stripes of different-coloured woods?
• ... that
  IBN-7
  ?
• ... that the video game Her Story features entirely live-action footage?
• ... that though Thailand was not at war with
  Communist China, it still fought Operation Sourisak Montry VIII
  in 1972?
• ... that when
  Robert M. La Follette Sr.
  , her husband was one of only two men who donated to her campaign?
• ... that a catchphrase for Mr. T Cereal was "I pity the fool who don't eat my cereal"?

Whitfield Diffie

• In the
  Irish general election, the ruling Fine Gael–Labour
  coalition loses its majority and over a third of its vote, but Fine Gael narrowly remains the largest party.
• Whitfield Diffie (pictured) and Martin Hellman win the Turing Award for introducing the ideas of public-key cryptography and digital signatures.
• Mad Max: Fury Road wins six awards and Spotlight wins Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
• Thirty-six people are killed in
  an explosion in a coal mine near Vorkuta
  , Russia.
• The
  Jamaican general election
  .

• Ongoing events:
  • Zika virus outbreak
  • European migrant crisis
• Recent deaths
  :
  • Martin Crowe
  • George Kennedy

March 4: Saint Casimir's Day

Orion Nebula

• 306 – Roman 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.
• Edward IV
  .
• list of Messier objects
  .
• British Commandos successfully executed Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands
  of Norway.
• President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity regarding his actions during the War in Darfur
  .

• More anniversaries:
  • March 3
  • March 4
  • March 5

Cathedral of San Fernando sarcophagus with images of Travis, Bowie and Crockett

Identifying the