CoM Moderators Posted March 4, 2024 Posted March 4, 2024 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) More Historical Events »
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