March 4 (Reuters) – Following are some of the major events to have occurred on March 4:
1913 – Woodrow Wilson was sworn in as 28th U.S. president, only the second Democrat to hold the office since the Civil War.
1922 – Inauguration of U.S. President Warren G. Harding.
2001 – Cows and sheep destroyed in Scotland after foot-and-mouth outbreak.
2002 – Veteran ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova was elected president of Kosovo in a vote that marked a major step towards self-rule in the province.
2004 – Horst Koehler resigned as head of the International Monetary Fund to seek the German presidency.
2005 – Italian secret service agent Nicola Calipari was mistakenly shot dead by U.S. soldiers in Baghdad while trying to shield a journalist whose release from kidnappers he had just secured.
2007 – Henri Troyat, one of the great figures of modern French literature and one of France’s most popular biographers, died aged 95.
2011 – Fire rips through Mumbai shanty town.
2012 – Train crash in Poland, killing at least 14 people.
2012 – Several explosions in DRC kill more than 200 people.
2015 – Commemorative 150th anniversary banknote unveiled in Hong Kong.
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