On this day in History - Sep. 4

• 0422 - Boniface I die. Pope, Italian Bishop of Rome.
• 0476 - Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy.
• 0799 - Musa al-Kazim dies (b. 0745). Shia Imam.
• 0925 - King Athelstan of West Saxony became the first king to rule all of England.
• 1037 - King Bermudo III of Leon dies (b. 1010).
• 1063 - Toghrül dies. Turkish conqueror of Persia and Baghdad.
• 1199 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Sicily dies (b. 1165). Wife of William II of Sicily.
• 1241 - King Alexander III of Scotland was born (d. 1286).
• 1260 - The Senese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of King Manfred of Sicily, defeat the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti.
• 1383 - Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy was born (d. 1451).
• 1454 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham was born (d. 1483). English politician.
• 1479 - Assinatura do Tratado de Alcáçovas, entre D. Afonso V e os reis católicos, Isabel de Castela e Fernando de Aragão, que pôs fim à Guerra da Sucessão de Castela. O rei de Portugal reconheceu Isabel como rainha de Castela, em vez da sua sobrinha D. Joana, a Excelente Senhora, conhecida em Espanha como a Beltraneja, por ser considerada filha de um D. Beltrão e não do rei Henrique IV, e da infanta de Portugal, D. Joana, filha do rei D. Duarte.
• 1537 - Johann Dietenberger dies. German theologian.
• 1563 - Wanli was born (d. 1620). Emperor of China.
• 1571 - Catholic coup in Scotland: Earl of Lennox, regent of Scotland, is murdered
• 1588 - Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester dies (b. 1532). English politician.
• 1596 - Constantijn Huygens was born (d. 1687). Dutch poet and composer.
• 1717 - Job Orton was born (d. 1783). English dissenting minister.
• 1767 - Charles Townshend dies (b. 1725). English politician.
• 1768 - François Rene Chateaubriand was born (d. 1848). French writer and diplomat.
• 1769 - Tenreiro Aranha was born (d. 1811). Brazilian writer.
• 1780 - John Fielding dies (b. 1721). English magistrate and social reformer.
• 1781 - The city of Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of the Little Portion) by 44 Spanish settlers.
• 1784 - César-François Cassini de Thury dies (b. 1714). French astronomer.
• 1791 - Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793), French actress and female rights activist publishes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789).
• 1794 - John Hely-Hutchinson dies (b. 1724). Irish statesman.
• 1803 - Sarah Childress Polk was born (d. 14 Aug 1891). First Lady of the United States.
• 1804 - Richard Somers dies. American naval officer.
• 1810 - Donald McKay was born. Shipbuilder.
• 1824 - Anton Bruckner was born (d. 1896). Austrian composer.
• 1832 - Antonio Agliardi was born (d. 1915). Italian diplomat.
• 1846 - Daniel Burnham was born (d. 1912). American architect.
• 1851 - John Dillon was born (d. 1927). Irish nationalist.
• 1852 - William MacGillivray dies (b. 1796). Scottish naturalist and ornithologist.
• 1862 - Civil War Maryland Campaign Gen. Robert E. Lee begins his move taking the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North crossing the Potomac at Whites Ford.
• 1864 - John Hunt Morgan dies killed by Federal troops (b. 1825). American Confederate military leader “Morgan's Raiders”.
• 1865 - Starting of the Government of Joaquim António de Aguiar as Prime-Minister of Portugal.
• 1867 - Medeiros e Albuquerque was born in Recife (d. 1934). Brazilian poet and politician / Nasce no Recife, Brasil, José Joaquim de Campos Medeiros e Albuquerque (m. 9 Jun 1934). Republicano e abolicionista, foi poeta, contista, romancista, político e conferencista. Foi um dos primeiros poetas brasileiros a revelar conhecimentos da estética simbolista. É o autor da letra do Hino da República Federal Brasileira.
• 1870 - Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
• 1882 - Thomas Edison displayed the first practical electrical lighting system. The Pearl Street electric power station, Edison’'s steam powered plant, began operating and successfully turned on the lights in a one square mile area of New York City.
• 1882 - H. H. Knerr was born (d. 1949). Cartoonist, "The Katzenjammer Kids".
• 1885 - Dimitrios Loundras was born (d. 1971). Greek gymnast.
• 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.
• 1886 - Albert Orsborn was born (d. 1967). The 6th General of The Salvation Army.
• 1888 - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.
• 1891 - Fritz Todt was born (d. 1942). Nazi official.
• 1892 - Darius Milhaud was born (d. 1974). French composer.
• 1894 - In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
• 1894 - Soccer Dutch team BV Veendam forms.
• 1895 - Nigel Bruce was born (d. 1953). English actor.
• 1896 - Antonin Artaud was born (d. 1948). French playwright, actor, and director.
• 1901 - William Lyons was born (d. 1985). British industrialist (Jaguar cars).
• 1904 - Maria Amélia Carvalheira was born (d. 1998). Portuguese sculptor.
• 1905 - César Civitá was born in New York (d. 9 Apr 2005). American editor who founded in Argentina, Editorial Abril.
• 1905 - Mary Renault was born (d. 1983). English novelist.
• 1906 - Max Delbrück was born (d. 1981). German biologist.
• 1907 - Edvard Grieg dies (b. 1843). Norwegian composer.
• 1908 - Edward Dmytryk was born (d. 1999). American film director.
• 1908 - Richard Wright was born (d. 28 Nov 1960). American writer: Black Boy, The Outsider, Black Power, The Color Curtain, Pagan Spain.
• 1908 - Michael Donohoe was born (d. 1989). Irish athlete.
• 1909 - Eduard Wirths was born (d. 1945). Nazi physician.
• 1909 - Clyde Fitch dies (b. 1865). American dramatist and playwright.
• 1911 - José Pinheiro Chagas becomes Prime- Minister in Portugal.
• 1913 - Mickey Cohen was born (d. 1976). American gangster.
• 1913 - Stanford Moore was born (d. 1982). American chemist, Nobel laureate.
• 1914 - Rudolf Leiding was born (d. 2003). German auto executive, third postwar chairman of Volkswagen.
• 1916 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre dies (b. 1832). Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1917 - Henry Ford II was born (d. 1987). American industrialist.
• 1918 - Paul Harvey was born. American radio broadcaster.
• 1919 - Howard Morris was born (d. 2005). American comic actor and director. Comedian, actor, "Your Show of Shows," "Caesar's Hour," Ernest T. Bass on "The Andy Griffith Show," "Boy's Night Out," "The Nutty Professor" (1963), "High Anxiety," "History of the World Part 1," and longtime voice artist at the Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio. As a director, he helmed episodes of "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "The Andy Griffith Show, "The Danny Thomas Show," "Bewitched," "Get Smart," "Hogan's Heroes," and "The Love Boat;" his films include "With Six You Get Eggroll," "Who's Minding the Mint?" and "Don't Drink the Water" (1969).
• 1920 - Clemar Bucci was born. Argentine racing driver.
• 1920 - Raul de Carvalho was born in Alvito, Alentejo (d. 3 Sep. 1984). Portuguese poet / Raul de Carvalho nasce no Alvito (Alentejo). Entre os seus livros mais representativos, contam-se Mesa da Solidão e A Aliança, ambos vindos a lume na década de 50 do século XX. A sua obra poética encontra-se reunida em volume publicado pela Editorial Caminho.
• 1920 - Teddy Johnson was born. British singer.
• 1923 - Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
• 1924 - Joan Aiken was born (d. 2004). English writer.
• 1925 - Forrest Carter was born (d. 1979). American author.
• 1926 - Bert Olmstead was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1927 - John McCarthy was born. American computer scientist.
• 1927 - Antônio Carlos Magalhães (ACM) was born (d. 2007). Brazilian politician.
• 1928 - Dick York was born (d. 1992). American actor. "My Sister Eileen," "Operation Mad Ball," TV's "Going My Way," the original Darrin on "Bewitched."
• 1929 - Thomas Eagleton was born. American politician.
• 1931 - Aldo Rossi was born (d. 1997). Italian architect.
• 1931 - Mitzi Gaynor was born. American actress, dancer. ("Golden Girl," "We're Not Married!" " There's No Business Like Show Business," "The Birds and the Bees," "Anything Goes," "South Pacific," "Happy Anniversary," "Surprise Package," "For Love or Money").
• 1932 - Carlos Romero Barcelo was born. Puerto Rican politician.
• 1932 - Dinsdale Landen was born (d. 2003). English actor.
• 1933 - Richard S. Castellano was born (d. 10 Dec 1988). American actor: The Godfather, Lovers and Other Strangers, Honor Thy Father, Night of the Juggler, The Gangster Chronicles, Joe and Sons, The Super.
• 1934 - Clive Granger was born. Welsh-born economist, Nobel laureate.
• 1936 - Largo Caballero becomes Spanish Premier.
• 1937 - Mikk Mikiver was born (d. 2006). Estonian actor and director.
• 1937 - Dawn Fraser was born. Australian swimmer.
• 1939 - World War II: Japan declares neutrality in European war.
• 1940 - For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks a United States ship (the USS Greer) despite US neutrality and causing tensions to heighten.
• 1941 - The New York Yankees won their 12th American League baseball pennant. This was the earliest any American League team had clinched the title.
• 1941 - Sushilkumar Shinde was born. Indian politician.
• 1941 - Marilena de Souza Chauí was born. Brazilian philosopher and educator.
• 1942 - Raymond Floyd was born. American professional golfer.
• 1942 - Jerry Jarrett was born. American professional wrestling promoter.
• 1944 - World War II: The British 11th Armored Division liberate the city of Antwerp in Belgium.
• 1944 - 64th US Mens Tennis: Frank Parker beats Wm F Talbert (6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3).
• 1944 - Ron Ward was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1945 - World War II: Japanese forces surrender on Wake Island after hearing word of their nation's surrender.
• 1945 - Danny Gatton was born (d. 1994). American musician.
• 1946 - Gary Duncan was born. American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service).
• 1946 - Greg Elmore was born. American drummer (Quicksilver Messenger Service).
• 1948 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
• 1948 - Samuel Hui was born. Hong Kong singer.
• 1949 - Maiden flight of the Bristol Brabazon.
• 1949 - The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, NY.
• 1949 - The longest pro tennis match in history was played. Pancho Gonzales and Ted Schroeder played 67 games in five sets.
• 1949 - Martin Chambers was born. English drummer (The Pretenders).
• 1949 - Tom Watson was born. American golfer.
• 1950 - The "Beetle Bailey" comic strip begins.
• 1950 - Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
• 1950 - Doyle Alexander was born. American baseball player.
• 1951 - The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
• 1951 - Marita Ulvskog was born. Swedish politician.
• 1952 - Rishi Kapoor was born. Indian actor.
• 1953 - The New York Yankees became the first baseball team, and Casey Stengel the first manager, to win five consecutive American League championships.
• 1953 - Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs was born. Actor, Boom-Boom on "Welcome Back, Kotter".
• 1955 - The first-ever match in the European Champion Clubs' Cup was played on this day. Lisbon's Estádio Nacional was the setting, Sporting Clube de Portugal and FK Partizan of Belgrade the teams in opposition and the final score was 3-3.
• 1956 - The IBM RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage, was introduced.
• 1957 - Nine black students attempted to enter Little Rock's Central High School but were blocked by the National Guard. Arkansas governor Orval Faubus had summoned the Federal troops.
• 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.
• 1957 - Khandi Alexander was born. American actress.
• 1957 - Patricia Tallman was born. American actress.
• 1958 - David Drew Pinsky (Dr. Drew) was born. American radio show host.
• 1958 - George Hurley was born. American drummer (Minutemen (band)).
• 1959 - Kevin Harrington was born. Australian actor.
• 1960 - Damon Wayans was born. American actor and comedian ("Beverly Hills Cop," "Saturday Night Live," "Roxanne," "Earth Girls Are Easy," "Punchline," "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka," "In Living Color, "Mo' Money," "Blankman," "Major Paine," "Bulletproof," "Damon," "Bamboozled," "My Wife and Kids").
• 1961 - Kevin Kennedy was born. English actor.
• 1962 - Ulla Tørnæs was born. Danish politician.
• 1963 - John Vanbiesbrouck was born. American hockey player.
• 1963 - Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland killing all on board.
• 1963 - Robert Schuman dies (b. 1886). French politician, French Premier.
• 1964 - Scotland's Forth Road Bridge, near Edinburgh, officially opens.
• 1964 - Forth Road Bridge, near Edinburgh, officially opens.
• 1964 - René Pape was born. German bass.
• 1964 - Robson Caetano da Silva was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian athlete.
• 1965 - Sergio Momesso was born. French Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1965 - Albert Schweitzer dies (b. 1875). German physician and missionary, recipient of The Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.
• 1966 - Jim Hogan wins Europe marathon (2:20:04.6).
• 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.
• 1967 - 6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200.
• 1968 - Mike Piazza was born. Baseball player.
• 1968 - Phill Lewis was born. American actor.
• 1968 - John DiMaggio was born. American actor.
• 1968 - Alejandro Mancuso was born. Argentinian footballer.
• 1969 - Noah Taylor was born. English-born actor.
• 1970 - Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha receives the "Robe of Faghr" (prophet Muhammad's cloak) and is officially appointed as the 42nd master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi Sufi order by his father, Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha.
• 1970 - Salvador Allende is elected president of Chile.
• 1970 - Daisy Dee was born. West Indian-born singer and actress.
• 1970 - Igor Cavalera was born. Brazilian drummer (Sepultura).
• 1970 - Dave Buchwald was born. American hacker and film maker.
• 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.
• 1971 - Ione Skye was born. English actress: Say Anything, Covington Cross, Guncrazy, Dream for an Insomniac.
• 1971 - Anita Yuen was born. Hong Kong actress.
• 1971 - Maik Taylor was born. Northern Irish footballer.
• 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.
• 1972 - Mark Spitz wins his seventh swimming gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, becoming the first Olympian to do so. Spitz swam in only seven events and set world records in each one.
• 1972 - The Price Is Right, hosted by Bob Barker, returns to television with a new format in CBS. Over three decades later, it continues to air and give away prizes galore.
• 1973 - Aaron Fultz was born. American baseball player.
• 1973 - Jason David Frank was born. American actor.
• 1973 - Stacy Sanches was born in Dallas. Texas. American playmate (Mar. 1995).
• 1974 - Carmit Bachar was born. Member of the band the Pussycat Dolls.
• 1974 - Nona Gaye was born. American singer and actress
• 1974 - Marcel Achard dies (b. 1899). French playwright.
• 1974 - Creighton Abrams dies (b. 1914). U.S. Army general.
• 1974 - Lewi Pethrus dies (b. 1884). Swedish politician.
• 1975 - the Sinai Interim Agreement concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed.
• 1975 - Nikolaos Lyberopoulos was born. Greek footballer.
• 1976 - Vassilis Lakis was born. Greek footballer.
• 1976 - Katreeya English was born. Thai singer, actress, model.
• 1977 - Sun-Woo Kim was born. Korean Major League Baseball player.
• 1977 - Mark Ronson was born. English DJ/Producer and co-founder of Allido Records.
• 1977 - Ian Grushka was born. American musician (New Found Glory).
• 1977 - E. F. Schumacher dies (b. 1911). German economist and statistician.
• 1977 - Jean Rostand dies (b. 1894). French biologist.
• 1977 - Stelios Perpiniadis dies (b. 1899). Greek musician.
• 1978 - Wes Bentley was born. American actor.
• 1978 - Leonora Cohen dies at 105 (b. 15 Jun 1873). English suffragist.
• 1979 - Maxim Afinogenov was born. Russian ice hockey player.
• 1979 - Kosuke Matsuura was born. Japanese racing driver.
• 1979 - Kristina Krepela was born. Croatian actress.
• 1979 - Pedro Camacho was born. Portuguese composer.
• 1980 - Lucie Silvas was born. English musician.
• 1981 - Adam Liam McCleery was born. Irish-born model.
• 1981 - Beyoncé Knowles was born. American singer.
• 1981 - Lacey Mosley was born. American singer.
• 1982 - Alessandra Rubi Streignard Villarreal was born. Spanish singer.
• 1982 - Lou Doillon was born. French actress.
• 1983 - Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship.
• 1983 - Yuichi Nakamaru was born. Japanese idol, (member of KAT-TUN).
• 1984 - Brian Mulroney leads the Progressive Conservative Party to power in Canada in the 1984 federal election and ending 20 years of nearly uninterrupted Liberal rule.
• 1986 - James Younghusband was born. Philippine footballer.
• 1986 - Hank Greenberg dies (b. 1911). American baseball player.
• 1986 - Otto Glória dies (b. 1917). Brazilian football coach.
• 1987 - Bill Bowes dies (b. 1908). English cricketer.
• 1989 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Air Force launched the last Titan III rocket.
• 1989 - Georges Simenon dies (b. 1903). Belgian-born French author.
• 1989 - Ronald Syme dies (b. 1903). New Zealand-born classicist and historian.
• 1990 - Irene Dunne dies (b. 1898). American actress (5 oscars).
• 1991 - Charlie Barnet dies (b. 1913). American jazz saxophonist and bandleader.
• 1991 - Tom Tryon dies (b. 1926). American actor and novelist.
• 1991 - Dottie West dies (b. 1932). American singer.
• 1993 - Hervé Villechaize dies (b. 1943). French actor.
• 1995 - The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
• 1995 - Paulo Gracindo dies (b. 1911). Brazilian actor.
• 1995 - William Kunstler dies (b. 1919). American lawyer and activist.
• 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 - The 14th MTV Video Music Awards show was staged at Radio City Music Hall. Host Chris Rock introduced Madonna, U2, Beck, Jamiroquai, The Wallflowers with Bruce Springsteen & Marilyn Manson. Most memorabel moment: Sting joining Puff Daddy & Faith Evans to perform I’ll Be Missing You.
• 1997 - Is aproved a revision of the Constitution of Portuguese Republic.
• 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.
• 1997 - Aldo Rossi dies (b. 1931). Italian architect.
• 1998 - Elizabeth Kata dies (b. 1912). Australian writer, A Patch of Blue.
• 2001 - Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf dies (b. 1962). American radio personality.
• 2002 - Vlado Perlemuter dies (b. 1904). Lithuanian pianist.
• 2003 - Tibor Varga dies (b. 1921). Hungarian violinist and conductor.
• 2003 - Lola Bobesco dies (b. 1921). Romanian-Belgian violinist.
• 2004 - Alphonso Ford dies (b. 1971). American basketball player.
• 2004 - Moe Norman dies (b. 1929). Canadian golfer.
• 2004 - James O. Page dies (b. 1936). American paramedic.
• 2004 - 2.5 million Florida residents are ordered to evacuate their homes in preparation for Hurricane Frances, which has already hit the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands. Frances is currently a strong Category Two Hurricane, and will be very near the east coast of Florida by late tonight or early next morning.
• 2005 - Typhoon Talim brings torrential rains and landslides in east People's Republic of China's Anhui Province, claiming 53 lives and leaving 12 missing.
• 2006 - Astrid Varnay dies (b. 1918). Swedish-born soprano.
• 2006 - Colin Thiele dies (b. 1920). Australian author and educator.
• 2006 - Giacinto Facchetti dies (b. 1942). Italian footballer.
• 2006 - Steve Irwin dies (b. 1962). Australian naturalist and television personality.
• Roman festivals - start of the Ludi Romani a.k.a. Ludi Magni, until 19 September.
• RC Saints - Saint Rosalia, Saint Rose of Viterbo.
• Quatre Septembre in France - celebrates the Proclamation of the Third Republic in 1870.
• Immigrant's Day in Argentina since 1949.