Historical Events on March 4 (Part 2)

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• 1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike
• 1989 Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)
• 1990 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space

• 1991 Bank of Credit & Commerce Intl divests itself of 1st American Bank
• 1991 Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW

• 1994 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
• 1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit
• 1995 1st NYC Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years
• 1995 Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital

• 1995 Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec)
• 1995 Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1
• 1997 Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks
• 1997 Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU)

• 1997 Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia)
• 1998 Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
• 2001 Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people
• 2001 IRA detonates a bomb in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, injuring 11 people
• 2001 Tests in recent days confirm the world's largest oil find in three decades in the Kashagan field in the Caspian Sea
• 2002 Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
• 2002 Multinational Force in Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
• 2005 The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers.
• 2005 United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by HIV in the future without further action against the spread of the disease.
• 2006 Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response received.
• 2007 Estonian parliamentary election: approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, world's 1st nationwide vote where part of the vote casting allowed by remote electronic voting

• 2009 Malaysia has a 50% chance of slipping into the recession as growth is expected to reach just 0.5% for the year, announces the executive director Datuk Mohamed Ariff Abdul Kareem of the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research
• 2009 U.S. Steel announce the closure of the Stelco Lake Erie Works in Nanticoke, Ontario due to the increasingly worsening effects of the global economic slowdown
• 2012 Munitions dump explosions kill at least 250 people in the Republic of Congo
• 2012 Over 10,000 illegal Peruvian gold miners clash with police to gain control of Puerto Maldonado

• 2013 11 children are killed after a bus collides a truck in the Jalandhar district, India
• 2013 40 Syrian soldiers are killed in an ambush in Western Iraq

• 2016 Ben Carson announces he is dropping out of the Republican presidential nomination race

• 2018 Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal are poisoned by nerve agent in Salisbury, England
• 2018 Italian general election results in no clear winner; populist Five Star Movement led by Luigi Di Maio receives most votes with 32%
• 2018 World's worst listeria outbreak suspected of killing 180 tracked to processed meat factory in Polokwane, South Africa

• 2019 Return of a lock of hair of Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II to Ethiopia announced by the National Army Museum in London

• 2020 "Once in a century" winter in Moscow the hottest in 140 years, with 7.5° C (13.5° F) above average temperatures and virtually no snow [1]

• 2020 New study confirms human-caused climate change did make the 2020 Australian bushfire season worse, published by World Weather Attribution
• 2022 Four-ton rocket debris crashes into the far side of the moon, unconfirmed booster from China's Chang'e 5-T1 mission in first unintentional collision with the moon [1]
• 2022 Suspected suicide bomb attack on a shia mosque in Pakistani city of Peshawar kills at least 56 and injures 190 [1]
• 2023 Andrew Tate's legal team states he has a dark spot on his lung, sparking rumors about lung cancer
• 2023 Historic High Seas Treaty agreed by nations at the UN, aiming to place 30% of the seas into protected areas by 2030, 1st international ocean protection agreement for 40 years [1]
• 2023 Leaked US documents from the war in Ukraine from US Defence Department begin appearing on a Discord server associated with online game Minecraft [1]
• 2024 France is the first country in the world to enshrine access to abortion in its constitution, voting in an amendment [1]
• 2024 Haiti explodes in new wave of violence as armed gangs attempt to seize the main international airport, amid 72 hour state of emergency after gangs freed thousands of prisoners from jails [1]
• 2024 Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira pleads guilty for leaking US security secrets on social media site Discord in a deal that includes at least 11 years in prison [1]
• 2024 US Supreme Court rules states can't bar federal candidates, including Donald Trump, from a ballot under 14th Amendment clause prohibiting those who “engaged in insurrection” [1]

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