September 4

September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). There are 118 days remaining.

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Events

• 476 – Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy.
• 1260 – The forces of King Manfred of Sicily, in league with the Ghibellines, defeat the Guelphs at Monte Aperto.
• 1781 – Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula) 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.
• 1963 – Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland killing all on board.
• 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.
• 1972 – The Price Is Right, hosted by Bob Barker, returns to television with a new format on CBS. Over three decades later, it continues to air and give away prizes galore.
• 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 – King Alexander III of Scotland (d. 1286)
• 1768 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer and diplomat (d. 1848)
• 1803 – Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States
• 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, Nazi official (d. 1942)
• 1892 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (d. 1974)
• 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 American radio broadcaster
• 1920 – Teddy Johnson, British singer
• 1925 – Forrest Carter, author
• 1928 – Dick York, actor (d. 1992)
• 1931 – Mitzi Gaynor, American actress
• 1937 – Dawn Fraser, swimmer
• 1941 – Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
• 1948 – Samuel Hui, singer
• 1957 – Khandi Alexander, American actress
• 1957 – Patricia Tallman, American actress
• 1959 – Kevin Harrington, actor
• 1960 – Damon Wayans, actor, comedian
• 1968 – Mike Piazza, baseball player
• 1970 – Daisy Dee, singer and actress
• 1975 – Andrew Locke, Basketball player
• 1981 – Beyoncé Knowles, singer
• 1983 – Jaccolyn Penrose, actor, comedian
• 1992 – Jessica Robinson, trampolinist and footballer

Deaths

• 799 – Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (b. 745)
• 1804 – Richard Somers, American naval officer
• 1852 – William MacGillivray, naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)
• 1864 – John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (b. 1825)
• 1907 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
• 1916 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer (b. 1832)
• 1965 – Albert Schweitzer, German physician (b. 1875)
• 1974 – Marcel Achard, French playwright (b. 1899)
• 1977 – E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Hank Greenberg, baseball player (b. 1911)
• 1987 – Bill Bowes, English cricketer (b. 1908)
• 1989 – Georges Simenon, French author (b. 1903)
• 1989  – Ronald Syme, classicist and historian (b. 1903)
• 1991 – Tom Tryon, actor and novelist
• 1991  – Dottie West, country music singer (b. 1932)
• 1993 – Hervé Villechaize, actor (b. 1943)
• 1995 – William Kunstler, lawyer (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, radio personality (b. 1962)
• 2003 – Tibor Varga, violinist and conductor
• 2004 – Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (b. 1971)
• 2004 – Moe Norman, golfer (b. 1929)
• 2004 – James O. Page, founder of modern emergency medical response (b. 1936)

Holidays

• Father's Day 2005 (Australia)

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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