Historical Events for 4th March 2024

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1793 - Washington's 2nd inauguration as US President, shortest speech (133 words)
1881 - California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
1894 - Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
1901 - Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction US congressmen, ends
1910 - Avalanche at Bear Creek in Rogers Pass, British Columbia, kills 58 railway line workers - Canada's worst avalanche disaster
1925 - US President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
1931 - West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG
1933 - Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss dissolves Austrian parliament
1947 - WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1995 - Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec)

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