BITS OF HISTORY

1913: Woodrow Wilson was sworn in as 28th US president, only the second Democrat to hold the office since the Civil War.

 

1922: Inauguration of US President Warren G Harding.

 

2005: Italian secret service agent Nicola Calipari was mistakenly shot dead by US soldiers in Baghdad while trying to shield a journalist whose release from kidnappers he had just secured.