Today in History - History - September 4th

1933Coup on Cuban president De Cespedes by Fulgencio Batista

1888George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak"

1991Panel 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

1989Jerry Lewis' 24th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $42,737,219

1993Mats Wilander defeats Mikael Pernfors 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 1-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 in 4 hrs 1 min US Open Tennis match concluding at 2:26 AM

1927Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour

1989Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic

1940Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Netherlands in Hitler's hands

1995Jerry Lewis' 30th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,800,000

1951US President Harry Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference

1942raymond floyd, Fort Bragg North Carolina, American golfer (four-time Major winner)

1962Shinya Yamanaka, Higashiōsaka, Osaka, Japanese physician (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine)

1981Beyoncé Knowles, Houston Texas, singer (Destiny's Child)

1909Eduard Wirths, Geroldshausen, German Empire, Nazi physician (Auschwitz), (d. 1945)

1901William Lyons, Blackpool, British industrialist (Jaguar cars), (d. 1985)

1934Clive Granger, Welsh-born economist, Nobel laureate

1918Paul Harvey, Tulsa Oklahoma, news commentator (Rest of the story)

1949Tom Watson, KC Mo, golfer (British Open 1975, 77, 80, 82, 83)

1834Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (28) weds Helen Eliza Benson

1996Judy Garland's daughter Lorna Luft (44) weds musician and musical director Colin Freeman (30) at Highclere Castle in Hampshire, United Kingdom

1989Tennis star Bjorn Borg (33) weds rock singer Loredana Berte (39) in a civil wedding

1930Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (21) weds Vivien Burey at First African Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1986Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) dies aged 75

2006Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality attacked and killed by a stingray (b. 1962)