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)