TODAY in HISTORY: MARCH 04

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Mar 04

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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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