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September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). There are 118
days remaining.
Events
- 476 - Romulus Augustus, the
last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of
Italy.
- 1781 - Los
Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (City of the Queen of the Angeles)
by a group of 44 Spanish settlers.
- 1870 - Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
- 1886 - Indian Wars: After almost 30
years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
- 1888 - George Eastman
registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.
- 1894 - In New York City, 12,000
tailors strike against sweatshop
working conditions.
- 1923 - In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American airship, the
"USS Shenandoah, takes to the sky for the
first time.
- 1940 - World War II: The
USS Greer becomes the first
United States ship fired upon by a German submarine in the war, even though the United States is a neutral power. Tension heightens between the two
nations as a result.
- 1944 - World War II: The British 11th Armored Division liberate the city of Antwerp in Belgium.
- 1945 - World War II: Japanese forces surrender
on Wake Island after hearing word of their nation's surrender.
- 1948 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
- 1951 - The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
- 1957 - American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis - Orville Faubus, governor
of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent black students from enrolling
in Central High School in Little Rock.
- 1957 - Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
- 1964 - Forth Road
Bridge, near Edinburgh, officially opened.
- 1967 - The last new episode of the television sitcom Gilligan's Island airs on CBS-TV.
- 1967 - Vietnam War: Operation SWIFT begins - The
United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces. The
ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son
Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.
- 1971 - A Boeing 727 carrying Alaska Airlines
Flight 1866 crashes into the side of a mountain near Juneau,
Alaska killing all 111 people on board.
- 1971 - The Lawrence Welk Show airs its last show.
- 1972 - Mark Spitz wins his seventh
swimming gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, becoming the first Olympian to win seven gold medals.
- 1995 - The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
- 1996 - War on Drugs: Colombian
Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, Colombia starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare that will claim
the lives of at least 130 Colombians.
- 1997 - In Lorain, Ohio, the
last Ford Thunderbird rolls off the assembly line.
- 1997 - A U.S. Air Force C-141 cargo plane and a German TU-154 collide in mid-air over southwest Africa killing 33
Births
- 1241 - Alexander III of Scotland , Scottish king
- 1768 - François-René de Chateaubriand, writer, diplomat
- 1824 - Anton Bruckner,
Austrian composer (d. 1896)
- 1832 - Antonio Agliardi,
Italian diplomat
- 1851 - John Dillon, Irish nationalist (d. 1927)
- 1875 - Kirby Rollin, Pulitzer Prize winning author
- 1891 - Fritz Todt, developer of the
German autobahn
- 1892 - Darius Milhaud,
composer
- 1896 - Antonin Artaud,
playwright, actor, director (d. 1948)
- 1905 - Mary Renault, novelist (d.
1983)
- 1906 - Max Delbrück, German biologist
- 1908 - Richard Wright, American writer (d.
1960)
- 1908 - Edward Dmytryk, film
director (d. 1999)
- 1918 - Paul Harvey Legendary
American radio broadcaster
- 1928 - Dick York, actor (d. 1992)
- 1931 - Mitzi Gaynor, actress
- 1937 - Dawn Fraser, Olympic Games gold medalist in swimming
- 1957 - Khandi Alexander,
American actress
- 1957 - Patricia
Tallman, American actress
- 1960 - Damon Wayans, actor,
comedian
- 1968 - Mike Piazza, baseball player
- 1970 - Daisy Dee, singer and
actress
- 1981 - Beyoncé Knowles,
singer
Deaths
- 799 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam
- 1804 - Richard Somers,
American naval officer
- 1864 - John Hunt Morgan,
Confederate military leader
- 1907 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer
- 1965 - Albert
Schweitzer, German physician
- 1974 - Marcel Achard, French playwright
- 1986 - Hank Greenberg,
American baseball
player
- 1989 - Georges Simenon,
author
- 1991 - Tom Tryon, actor, novelist
- 1991 - Dottie West, country music singer
- 1993 - Hervé
Villechaize, actor
- 1995 - William Kunstler,
attorney
- 2001 - Hank The Angry Drunken Dwarf (Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr), radio personality
- 2003 - Tibor Varga, violinist, conductor and pedagogue
Holidays
September 3 - September
5 - August 4 - October 4 - more
historical anniversaries
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