September 4
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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 , is 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 (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 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 , writer, 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 1937 - Dawn Fraser , Olympic Games gold medalist in swimming
1941 - Sushilkumar Shinde , Indian politician
1948 - Samuel Hui , singer
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
1983 - Jaccolyn Penrose , actor, comedian
1992 - Jessica Robinson , trampolinist, 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 , Confederate military leader (b. 1825 )
1907 - Edvard Grieg , Norwegian composer (b. 1843 )
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 , American baseball player (b. 1911 )
1987 - Bill Bowes , champion Yorkshire and England bowler (b. 1908 )
1989 - Georges Simenon , author (b. 1903 )
1989 - Ronald Syme , classicist and historian (b. 1903 )
1991 - Tom Tryon , actor, 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 (Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr), radio personality (b. 1962 )
2003 - Tibor Varga , violinist , conductor and pedagogue
2004 - Alphonso Ford , Euroleague superstar (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
September 3 - September 5 - August 4 - October 4 - more historical anniversaries
