March 4·Every year

National Grammar Day

Founded in 2008 by writer Martha Brockenbrough and her Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar. The date was chosen for its imperative mood: March forth. The Oxford comma has never been more politically charged than in the years since.

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Notable · 2017

Construction began on a 69-metre (226 ft) statue of the Buddha at Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen in Bangkok.

2020Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to walk over the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua.
2018Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.
2015At least 34 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in the rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine.