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March 4, 2015

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 4, 2015, covering March 4, 2015.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Smoke + Mirrors by Imagine Dragons

    Smoke + Mirrors

    Imagine Dragons

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for If You're Reading This It's Too Late by Drake

    If You're Reading This It's Too Late

    Drake

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    2
  3. 3
    Album cover for Fifty Shades Of Grey by Soundtrack

    Fifty Shades Of Grey

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    2
  4. 4
    Album cover for 1989 by Taylor Swift

    1989

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    17
  5. 5
    Album cover for x by Ed Sheeran

    x

    Ed Sheeran

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    35

Notable Deaths

2015Dušan Bilandžić, Croatian historian and politician (born 1924)[†]

Dušan Bilandžić was a Croatian historian and politician.

Ray Hatton

2015Ray Hatton, English-American runner, author, and academic (born 1932)[†]

Raymond Robert (Ray) Hatton was an English educator, author, and long-distance runner. Born in England, Hatton moved to the United States in 1956 to attend college, earning degrees in education and geography from University of Idaho and the University of Oregon. He was an award-winning college geography professor for many years. Hatton wrote ten books on Oregon geography, history, and climatology. In the 1970s and 1980s, he won numerous Masters level running championships and set American records in several long-distance running events. Ran a Masters WR in the Mile at 4:26.0 in 1972. Hatton was inducted into the USATF Masters Hall of Fame in 2001.

Historical Events

2015 Zasyadko mine disaster

2015At least 34 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in the rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine.[†]

On 4 March 2015, at around 05:20 local time, there was a mining accident at the Zasyadko coal mine in rebel-held Eastern Ukraine. It is suspected to have been caused by a gas explosion.

Historical Context for March 4, 2015

In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]