Today in History
September 4 - Today in History
By Staff
Sep 4, 2008 - 12:00:00 AM

0422 - St Boniface I dies, ending his reign as Catholic Pope
0476 - Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in west, is deposed
1024 - Conrad II the Sailor chosen German king
1609 - Navigator Henry Hudson discovers island of Manhattan
1618 - "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed
1781 - Los Angeles founded in Bahia de las Fumas by 44 settlers, (Valley of Smokes)
1833 - 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty-NY Sun)
1862 - North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized in San Francisco
1864 - Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama
1866 - 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published
1870 - 3rd French republic proclaimed as they overthrow their king
1882 - 1st district lit by electricty (NY's Pearl Street Station)
1885 - 1st cafeteria opens (NYC)
1886 - Geronimo is captured, ending last major US-Indian war
1888 - George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak"
1893 - English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit
1911 - Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)
1916 - Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown final baseball game
1918 - US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
1920 - Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
1923 - NY Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Phila A's, 2-0
1927 - Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour
1933 - 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph, JR Wendell, Glenview, Illinois
1937 - Doris Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4)
1939 - The Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated
1941 - Yanks beat Red Sox 6-3 & clinch their 12th & earliest pennant
1944 - 2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt
1945 - Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded
1945 - US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan
1948 - Queen Wilhelmina of Netherlands abdicates
1949 - Marie Robie sinks 393 yd hole-in-one (1st hole in Furnace Brook)
1950 - 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines
1950 - D McI Hodgson of St Ann Bay, Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna
1951 - 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by President Truman
1951 - NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network
1953 - Yanks become 1st team to win 5 consecutive championships
1954 - 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed
1954 - Peter B Cortese of the US achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania
1957 - Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school
1957 - Ford Motor Co introduces the Edsel
1961 - US authorizes Agency for International Development
1962 - Beatles record "How Do You Do It"
1964 - Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile
1964 - Forth Road Bridge opens in England over the "Firth of Forth"
1964 - NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
1965 - Beatles' "Help!," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
1966 - Houston Oilers holds Denver Broncos to no 1st downs winning 45-7
1967 - 6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200
1970 - Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile
1970 - George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single
1971 - Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)
1972 - US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals
1978 - NY Yankee pitcher Ron Guidry wins his 20th (on way to 25-3 season)
1981 - Longest game at Fenway Park completed in 20, Mariners-8, Red Sox-7
1981 - Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC
1981 - Seattle Mariners beat Boston Red Sox, 8-7, in 20 innings (started 9/3)
1983 - Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship
1983 - Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed record (119.36 mph)
1985 - Igor Paklin of the USSR set a new high jump world record at 7-11 12
1985 - NY Mets Gary Carter's 2 HRs ties record of 5 HRs in 2 games
1986 - 189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1988 - Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills NY
1988 - Phoenix Cardinals play 1st regular-season NFL game
1990 - Jerry Lewis' 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186
1991 - Panel of 8 baseball experts vote to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris HR record & determine an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings
1991 - Rte 35 Theater in Hazlit, the last drive-in in NJ, closes
1993 - Jim Abbott pitches 4-0, no-hit win over Indians at Yankee Stadium
1994 - Bulgarian government of Berov falls
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

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