September 4
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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.
Births [change]
- 1241 – King Alexander III of Scotland (died 1286)
- 1557 – Sofie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Queen of Denmark and Norway (died 1631)
- 1563 – Wanli, Emperor of China (died 1620)
- 1768 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer and diplomat (died 1848)
- 1803 – Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (died 1891)
- 1809 – Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (died 1849)
- 1824 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (died 1896)
- 1832 – Antonio Agliardi, Italian diplomat (died 1915)
- 1851 – John Dillon, Irish nationalist (died 1927)
- 1877 – Karlis Ulmanis, Latvian politician (died 1942)
- 1891 – Fritz Todt, Nazi official (died 1942)
- 1892 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (died 1974)
- 1896 – Antonin Artaud, French playwright, actor, director (died 1948)
- 1896 – Aspasia Manos, Queen consort of Greece (died 1972)
- 1905 – Mary Renault, novelist (died 1983)
- 1906 – Max Delbrück, German biologist (died 1981)
- 1908 – Richard Wright, American writer (died 1960)
- 1908 – Edward Dmytryk, film director (died 1999)
- 1913 – Stanford Moore, American chemist (died 1982)
- 1918 – Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (died 2009)
- 1920 – Teddy Johnson, British singer
- 1921 – Ariel Ramirez, Argentine composer (died 2010)
- 1925 – Forrest Carter, author (died 1979)
- 1928 – Dick York, actor (died 1992)
- 1931 – Mitzi Gaynor, American actress
- 1934 – Clive Granger, British economist (died 2009)
- 1937 – Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer
- 1941 – Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
- 1948 – Samuel Hui, singer
- 1953 – Fatih Terim, Turkish football manager
- 1955 – Brian Schweitzer, Governor of Montana
- 1957 – Khandi Alexander, American actress
- 1957 – Patricia Tallman, American actress
- 1959 – Kevin Harrington, actor
- 1960 – Damon Wayans, actor, comedian
- 1968 – Mike Piazza, American baseball player
- 1970 – Daisy Dee, American singer and actress
- 1975 – Lola Nation, Poet and Writer
- 1977 – Mark Ronson, British music producer
- 1977 – Lucie Silvas, British singer
- 1979 – Kerstin Garefrekes, German footballer
- 1981 – Beyoncé Knowles, American singer
- 1982 – Mark Lewis-Francis, British athlete
- 1986 – Aaron Hunt, German footballer
Deaths [change]
- 799 – Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (born 745)
- 1804 – Richard Somers, American naval officer (born 1778)
- 1821 – Jose Miguel Carrera, Chilean politician (born 1785)
- 1852 – William MacGillivray, naturalist and ornithologist (born 1796)
- 1864 – John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (born 1825)
- 1907 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (born 1843)
- 1916 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer (born 1832)
- 1963 – Robert Schuman, French politician (born 1886)
- 1965 – Albert Schweitzer, German physician (born 1875)
- 1974 – Marcel Achard, French playwright (born 1899)
- 1977 – E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (born 1911)
- 1986 – Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (born 1911)
- 1987 – Bill Bowes, English cricketer (born 1908)
- 1989 – Georges Simenon, Belgian-French author (born 1903)
- 1989 – Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (born 1903)
- 1991 – Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (born 1926)
- 1991 – Dottie West, American country music singer (born 1932)
- 1993 – Hervé Villechaize, actor (born 1943)
- 1995 – William Kunstler, lawyer (born 1919)
- 2003 – Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (born 1921)
- 2004 – Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (born 1971)
- 2004 – Moe Norman, golfer (born 1929)
- 2004 – James O. Page, American founder of modern emergency medical response (born 1936)
- 2006 – Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and TV presenter (born 1962).
- 2006 – Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (born 1942).
- 2006 – Astrid Varnay, Swedish soprano (born 1918)
Events [change]
- 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.
- 1950 – Beetle Bailey comic strip started.
- 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.
- 2006 – Australian naturalist and TV presenter Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter) is killed by a stingray off the Queensland coast.
- 2009 – An airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan kills 142 people.
- 2010 – 2010 Canterbury earthquake: A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes New Zealand's South Island, causing widespread damage and power outages, particularly in Christchurch. No deaths are reported.
