Notable Historical Events on September 4th
September 4th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
422 |
St Boniface I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
476 |
Romulus Augustulus, last Western Roman Emperor, abdicates after forces led by Odoacer invade Rome. Traditional end of the Western Roman Empire |
1024 |
Conrad II (the Elder) chosen as King of Germany |
1260 |
Battle at Montaperti, Tuscany, between rival factions the Guelphs and Ghibellines |
1282 |
King Pedro III of Aragonorth annexes Sicily |
1414 |
Peace of Atrecht: John the fearless & Armagnacs |
1479 |
King Alfonso I of Portugal recognizes Isabella as queen of Castile |
1571 |
Catholic rebellion in Scotland |
1609 |
Navigator Henry Hudson first European to discover island of Manhattan [or Sep 11] |
1618 |
"Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs, Switzerland, 1,500 killed |
1682 |
English astronomer Edmund Halley observes the comet named after him |
1778 |
City of Amsterdam signs trade agreement with American rebels |
1781 |
Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish speaking mestizos in the Bahia de las Fumas (Bay of Smokes) |
1786 |
-5] Orange troops plunder Hattem/Elburg |
1805 |
1st edition of Batavian State Courrier published |
1807 |
Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat |
1813 |
First US religious newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer)) |
1833 |
1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun) |
1842 |
Work on Cologne cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus |
1854 |
English/French assault on Petropavlovsk Kamchatka |
1862 |
General Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops |
1862 |
North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized in San Francisco |
1862 |
Maryland Campaign (Antietam Campaign) |
1864 |
Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama |
1866 |
1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published |
1870 |
The Third French Republic proclaimed as French overthrow Emperor Napoleon III (who ironically was the elected president of the Second French Republic) after his defeat by Prussia at Sedan |
1882 |
1st large-scale test of Thomas Edison's light bulb - lighting of NY's Pearl Street Station |
1884 |
Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia. |
1885 |
1st cafeteria opens (NYC) |
1886 |
Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war |
1888 |
George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak" |
1893 |
English author Beatrix Potter first writes the story of Peter Rabbit for a 5 year old boy |
1894 |
In NYC, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops |
1894 |
Soccer team Veendam 1894 forms |
1899 |
8.3 earthquake shakes Yakutat Bay Alaska |
1904 |
Dali Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet |
1906 |
NY Highlanders win 5th straight doubleheader |
1908 |
Caledonia & Hillhurst Football Clubs play for Central Alberta Rugby Football League championship |
1911 |
Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft) |
1912 |
First accident (collision) in London Underground: 22 people injured |
1914 |
General von Moltke ceases German advance in France |
1914 |
France, Russia, and Britain agree in a Pact of London that none will make a separate peace |
1916 |
Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown final baseball game |
1918 |
Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic premier |
1918 |
US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months |
1919 |
39th US Men's Tennis: William M Johnston beats Wm T Tilden (6-4 6-4 6-3) |
1919 |
British intervene in Petrograd |
1919 |
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace. |
1920 |
Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria) |
1922 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000m (5:26.3) |
1923 |
A Charlot & N Coward's revue "London Calling" premieres in London |
1923 |
NY Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Phila A's, 2-0 |
1923 |
Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah. |
1927 |
Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour |
1930 |
Cambridge Theatre opens in London |
1932 |
15th PGA Championship: Olin Dutra at Keller GC St Paul Minn |
1933 |
1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il |
1933 |
Coup on Cuban president De Cespedes by Fulgencio Batista |
1934 |
Bradman scores 149* Aust v Eng XI, 104 mins, 17 fours 4 sixes |
1936 |
Franco's troops conquer Irun & Talavera de la Reina, Spain |
1936 |
Largo Caballero becomes Spanish premier |
1937 |
Doris Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4) |
1938 |
Vainio Muinonen wins 2nd European marathoner (2:37:28.8) |
1939 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber affirms Neth's in a State of War |
1939 |
German troops move into Danzig |
1939 |
Netherlands & Belgium declare neutrality |
1939 |
Mir, a Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland, is exterminated |
1939 |
RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen |
1940 |
CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB |
1940 |
Gerbrandy becomes premier of Dutch government in exile |
1940 |
Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Netherlands in Hitler's hands |
1941 |
NY Yankees, win earliest AL pennent (full season) |
1941 |
US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652 |
1941 |
Yanks beat Red Sox 6-3 & clinch their 12th & earliest pennant |
1942 |
Transport nr 28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1943 |
British 8th Army lands at Taranto, South Italy |
1944 |
2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt |
1944 |
64th US Men's Tennis: Frank Parker beats Wm F Talbert (6-4 3-6 6-3 6-3) |
1944 |
British 11th Armoured Division frees Antwerp |
1944 |
Finland breaks diplomatic contact with Nazi Germany |
1944 |
US 1st Army frees Namen |
1945 |
Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded |
1945 |
US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan |
1948 |
"Angel in the Wings" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 308 perfs |
1948 |
Queen Wilhelmina abdicates Dutch throne |
1949 |
Marie Robie sinks 393 yd hole-in-one (1st hole in Furnace Brook) |
1950 |
First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines |
1950 |
D McI Hodgson of St Ann Bay, Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna |
1950 |
Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, kills about 250 |
1950 |
Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race. |
1951 |
1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by US President Harry Truman |
1951 |
71st US Men's Tennis: F A Sedgman beats Elias V Seixas Jr (6-4 6-1 6-1) |
1951 |
NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network |
1951 |
US President Harry Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference |
1953 |
WATR (now WTXX) TV channel 20 in Waterbury, CT (NBC) begins |
1953 |
WGEM TV channel 10 in Quincy-Hannibal, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Yanks become 1st team to win 5 consecutive championship |
1954 |
Peter B Cortese of US achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania |
1956 |
The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage. |
1957 |
Ford Motor Co introduces Edsel |
1957 |
Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school |
1960 |
-12] Hurricane Donna, kills 148 in Caribbean & US |
1961 |
Carol Burnette-Richard Hayes Show premieres on CBS radio |
1961 |
US authorizes Agency for International Development |
1962 |
Beatles record "How Do You Do It" at EMI |
1962 |
French president De Gaulle visits German FR |
1963 |
Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board. |
1964 |
Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile |
1964 |
Scottish Forth Road Bridge opens (then the longest in Europe) |
1964 |
NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1) |
1965 |
Beatles' single "Help!" goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks |
1965 |
KREZ TV channel 6 in Durango, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
1965 |
Rock group Who's van is vandalized with $10,000 in equipment stolen |
1966 |
Houston Oilers holds Denver Broncos to no 1st downs winning 45-7 |
1966 |
Jim Hogan wins Europe marathon (2:20:04.6) |
1967 |
6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200 |
1967 |
Jerry Lewis' 2nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
1967 |
Train crash at Arnhem, Netherlands, kills 5 |
1968 |
Nigerian troops conquer Aba Biafra |
1970 |
-5) 29.0 cm rainfall at Workman Creek, Arizona (state record) |
1970 |
George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single |
1970 |
Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum |
1970 |
Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile |
1970 |
An Irish Republican Army (IRA) member, Michael Kane (35), is killed in the premature explosion of the bomb he was planting at an electricity transformer in Belfast |
1971 |
Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska) |
1972 |
US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals |
1972 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1972 |
Thieves steal 18 paintings from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in what was at the time the largest art theft in North America. |
1973 |
William E Colby, becomes 10th director of CIA |
1974 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
1975 |
The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed. |
1976 |
Palestinians hijack KLM DC-9 to Cyprus |
1977 |
"Godspell" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 527 performances |
1977 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Rail Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic |
1978 |
Jerry Lewis' 13th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $29,074,405 |
1978 |
NY Yankee pitcher Ron Guidry wins his 20th (on way to 25-3 season) |
1978 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
1979 |
India need 438 to win v England, game ends at 8-429 |
1979 |
Iran army conquerors Baneh |
1980 |
Yes performs its last concert (Madison Square Garden) |
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 inn (started 9/3) |
1981 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1982 |
Arson fire engulfs apartment-hotel in LA, 25 die |
1982 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1983 |
"Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" closes at Royale NYC after 747 perfs |
1983 |
83rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel |
1983 |
Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship |
1983 |
Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph) |
1984 |
Nigerian singer Fela Kuti sentenced to 2 years |
1985 |
Igor Paklin of 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 |
1986 |
Claude Brochu becomes CEO of Montreal Expos |
1988 |
Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills NY |
1988 |
Phoenix Cardinals play 1st regular-season NFL game |
1989 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
1989 |
Jerry Lewis' 24th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $42,737,219 |
1991 |
"Most Happy Fella" opens at NY State Theater NYC |
1991 |
Rte 35 Theater in Hazlit, last drive-in in NJ, closes |
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 |
1992 |
"Scared Silent" is 1st non news program to be seen on 3 networks simultaneously. (CBS, NBC & PBS), about child abuse hosted by Oprah |
1993 |
Jim Abbott pitches 4-0, no-hit win over Indians at Yankee Stadium |
1993 |
Mats 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 |
1994 |
Bulgarian government of Berov falls |
1994 |
Cleveland Browns is 1st team in NFL to score a 2-point conversion |
1994 |
Kansai International airport officially opens |
1995 |
Jerry Lewis' 30th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,800,000 |
1995 |
Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic |
1995 |
The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance. |
1996 |
13th MTV Awards: Alanis Morrisett & Smashing Pumpkins wins |
1997 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Louisville KY on WTFX 100.5 FM |
1997 |
14th MTV Awards: Jamiroquai, Jewel & Beck wins |
1998 |
Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University |
2010 |
Canterbury earthquake: a 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages. |
2012 |
42 people are killed and 25 injured as a passenger bus falls down a ravine in Morocco |
2012 |
25 people are killed at a funeral suicide bombing in Nangarhar, Pakistan |
2012 |
Pauline Marois becomes the first female premier of Quebec |
2012 |
Carpet that can help prevent falls in elderly by warning them after detecting unusual footsteps is developed |
2014 |
Monsoon rains beging and cause flooding over a sustained period that kills over 400 people in India & Pakistan |
2014 |
Aracheological remains of a Viking fortress from the 900s CE, the Vallø Borgring, is discovered in Denmark |
2016 |
Mother Teresa to be made saint at Vatican ceremony |
2016 |
Afghanistan bus inferno kills dozens |
2016 |
Hong Kong votes in first major poll since pro-democracy protests |
2016 |
Thousands Crowd Vatican for Chance to See Mother Teresa Made a Saint |
2016 |
China wary as Hong Kong election exposes underlying strains |
2016 |
Bangladesh hangs Islamist tycoon Mir Quasem Ali |
2016 |
US election: Donald Trump woos black vote at Detroit church |
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