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September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 118 days remaining until the end of the year.
[edit] Events
- 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy.
- 1260 - The Senese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of King Manfred of Sicily, defeat the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti.
- 1781 - Los Angeles, California, is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of the Little Portion) by 44 Spanish settlers.
- 1862 - Civil War Maryland Campaign Gen. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
- 1870 - Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
- 1884 - Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.
- 1886 - Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his remaining warriors to General Nelson Miles 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.
- 1919 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathered a congress in Sivas to take decisions of the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
- 1923 - Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
- 1939 - World War II: Japan declares neutrality in European war.
- 1940 - World War II, a German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship (the USS Greer) despite US neutrality.
- 1944 - World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberate the Belgian city of Antwerp.
- 1948 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
- 1949 - Maiden flight of the Bristol Brabazon.
- 1949 - The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, NY.
- 1950 - First appearance of the "Beetle Bailey" comic strip.
- 1950 - Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
- 1951 - The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
- 1956 - The IBM RAMAC 305 was introduced, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage.
- 1957 - American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis - Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
- 1957 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
- 1963 - Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all on board.
- 1964 - Scotland's Forth Road Bridge, near Edinburgh, officially opens.
- 1967 - Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
- 1970 - Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha receives the "Robe of Faghr" (prophet Muhammad's cloak) and becomes the 42nd master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi Sufi.
- 1971 - A Boeing 727 carrying Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
- 1972 - Thieves steal 18 paintings from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in what was at the time the largest art theft in North America.
- 1972 - Mark Spitz wins his seventh swimming gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, becoming the first Olympian to do so. Spitz set world records in all seven events in which he swam.
- 1975 - The Sinai Interim Agreement concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed.
- 1984 - Brian Mulroney leads the Canadian Progressive Conservative Party to power in the 1984 federal election, ending 20 years of nearly uninterrupted Liberal rule.
- 1995 - The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
- 1996 - War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.
[edit] Births
- 1241 - Alexander III of Scotland (d. 1286)
- 1383 - Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy (d. 1451)
- 1454 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (d. 1483)
- 1557 - Sofie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1631)
- 1563 - Wanli, Emperor of China (d. 1620)
- 1596 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet (d. 1687)
- 1717 - Job Orton, English minister (d. 1783)
- 1755 - Count Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish Army officer, diplomat and statesman. (d. 1810)
- 1768 - François-René de Chateaubriand, French diplomat (d. 1848)
- 1803 - Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (d. 1891)
- 1809 - Juliusz Słowacki, Polish Romantic poet (d. 1849)
- 1824 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (d. 1896)
- 1826 - Martin Wiberg, Swedish computer pioneer (d. 1905)
- 1832 - Antonio Agliardi, Italian diplomat (d. 1915)
- 1846 - Daniel Burnham, American architect (d. 1912)
- 1848 - Jennie Lee (actor), American actress (d. 1925)
- 1850 - Luigi Cadorna, Italian Field Marshal (d. 1928)
- 1851 - John Dillon, Irish nationalist (d. 1927)
- 1885
- 1886 - Albert Orsborn, General of The Salvation Army (d. 1967)
- 1890 - Naima Wifstrand, Swedish film actor, operetta singer, troubadour, director and composer (d. 1968)
- 1891 - Fritz Todt, Nazi official (d. 1942)
- 1892 - Darius Milhaud, French composer (d. 1974)
- 1896 - Antonin Artaud, French playwright (d. 1948)
- 1901 - William Lyons, British industrialist (Jaguar cars) (d. 1985)
- 1905 - Mary Renault, English novelist (d. 1983)
- 1906 - Max Delbrück, German biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
- 1908
- 1909 - Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician (d. 1945)
- 1913
- 1914 - Rudolf Leiding, German auto executive, third postwar chairman of Volkswagen (d. 2003)
- 1917 - Henry Ford II, American industrialist (d. 1987)
- 1918 - Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster
- 1919 - Howard Morris, American comic actor and director (d. 2005)
- 1920
- 1922 - Per Olof Sundman, Swedish writer and politician 1975-1992.
- 1924 - Joan Aiken, English writer (d. 2004)
- 1925 - Forrest Carter, American author (d. 1979)
- 1926 - Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1927 - John McCarthy, American computer scientist
- 1928 - Dick York, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1929 - Thomas Eagleton, American politician (d. 2007)
- 1931 - Mitzi Gaynor, American actress
- 1932
- 1934 - Clive Granger, Welsh-born economist, Nobel laureate
- 1937
- 1941
- 1942
- 1944 - Ron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1945 - Danny Gatton, American musician (d. 1994)
- 1946
- 1948 - Samuel Hui, Hong Kong singer
- 1949
- 1950 - Doyle Alexander, American baseball player
- 1951
- 1952 - Rishi Kapoor, Indian actor
- 1954 - José Castro, Swedish actor.
- 1955 - Brian Schweitzer, American politician, governor of Montana
- 1956 - Blackie Lawless, American musician, lead singer in W.A.S.P.
- 1957
- 1958
- 1959
- 1960
- 1962 - Kiran More, Indian cricketer
- 1961 - Kevin Kennedy, English actor
- 1962 - Ulla Tørnæs, Danish politician
- 1963
- 1964 - René Pape, German bass
- 1965 - Sergio Momesso, French Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968
- 1969
- 1970
- 1971
- 1972 - Françoise Yip, Canadian actress
- 1973
- 1974
- 1975 - Nikolaos Lyberopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1976 - Katreeya English, Thai singer, actress, model
- 1977
- 1978
- 1979
- 1980
- 1981
- 1983 - Yuichi Nakamaru, Japanese idol, (member of KAT-TUN)
- 1984
- 1986 - James Younghusband, Philippine footballer
- 1991 - Carter Jenkins, American actor
[edit] Deaths
- 799 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (b. 745)
- 1037 - King Bermudo III of Leon (b. 1010)
- 1063 - Toghrül, Turkish conqueror of Persia and Baghdad
- 1199 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Sicily, wife of William II of Sicily (b. 1165)
- 1537 - Johann Dietenberger, German theologian
- 1588 - Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1532)
- 1767 - Charles Townshend, English politician (b. 1725)
- 1780 - John Fielding, English magistrate and social reformer (b. 1721)
- 1784 - César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)
- 1794 - John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)
- 1804 - Richard Somers, American naval officer
- 1852 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)
- 1864 - John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (b. 1825)
- 1907 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
- 1909 - Clyde Fitch, American dramatist and playwright (b. 1865)
- 1916 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
- 1963 - Robert Schuman, French politician (b. 1886)
- 1965 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1875)
- 1974 - Marcel Achard, French playwright (b. 1899)
- 1974 - Creighton Abrams, U.S. Army general (b. 1914)
- 1974 - Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (b. 1884)
- 1977 - E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (b. 1911)
- 1977 - Jean Rostand, French biologist (b. 1894)
- 1977 - Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek musician (b. 1899)
- 1979 - Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (b. 1904)
- 1986 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (b. 1911)
- 1986 - Otto Glória, Brazilian football coach (b. 1917)
- 1987 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (b. 1908)
- 1989 - Georges Simenon, French author (b. 1903)
- 1989 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (b. 1903)
- 1990 - Irene Dunne American actress (b. 1898)
- 1991 - Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (b. 1926)
- 1991 - Dottie West, American singer (b. 1932)
- 1991 - Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1913)
- 1993 - Hervé Villechaize, French actor (b. 1943)
- 1995 - Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax; b. 1950)
- 1995 - William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)
- 1997 - Aldo Rossi, Italian architect (b. 1931)
- 1998 - Elizabeth Kata, Australian writer, A Patch of Blue (b. 1912)
- 2001 - Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American radio personality (b. 1962)
- 2002 - Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian pianist (b. 1904)
- 2003 - Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (b. 1921)
- 2003 - Lola Bobesco, Romanian-born violinist (b. 1921)
- 2004 - Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (b. 1971)
- 2004 - Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (b. 1929)
- 2004 - James O. Page, American paramedic (b. 1936)
- 2006 - Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920)
- 2006 - Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942)
- 2006 - Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality (b. 1962)
- 2006 - Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (b. 1918 )
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