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Events and People Who Made History on September 4
5th Century
422 - St. Boniface I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
476 - Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in west, is deposed
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11th Century
1024 - Conrad II the Sailor chosen German king
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13th Century
1260 - Battle at Montaperti-Guelfen vs Ghibellijnen
1282 - King Pedro III of Aragonorth annexes Sicily
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15th Century
1414 - Peace of Atrecht: John the fearless and Armagnacs
1479 - King Alfonso I of Portugal recognizes Isabella as queen of Castilie
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16th Century
1571 - Catholic coup in Scotland
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17th Century
1618 - "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed
1682 - English astronomer Edmund Halley sees his namesake comet
1695 - French garrison of castle Names surrenders for Willem III
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18th Century
1778 - City Amsterdam signs trade agreement with U.S. rebels
1781 - Los Angeles founded by 44 in Bahia de las Fumas, (Valley of Smokes)
1786 - Orange troops plunder Hattem/Elburg
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19th Century
1805 - 1st edition of Batavian State-Current published
1807 - Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat
1813 - 1st U.S. relig newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer))
1833 - 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun)
1842 - Work on Koln 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 and Mission Railway Company organized in SF
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 electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station)
1885 - 1st cafeteria opens (New York City)
1886 - Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war
1888 - George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera and registers "Kodak"
1893 - English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit
1894 - In New York City, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops
1894 - Soccer team Veendam 1894 forms
1899 - 8.3 earthquake shakes Yakutat Bay, Alaska
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20th Century
1904 - Dali Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet
1906 - New York Highlanders win 5th straight doubleheader
1908 - Caledonia and 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 - 1st accident (collision) in Londoner Underground: 22 injured person
1914 - British, French and Russian government sign Pact of London, against Germany
1914 - General von Moltke ceases German advance in France
1916 - Christy Mathewson and Mordecai Brown final baseball game
1918 - Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic premier
1918 - U.S. troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
1919 - 39th U.S. Mens Tennis: William M Johnston beats Wm T Tilden (64 64 63)
1919 - British intervene in Petrograd
1920 - Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
1922 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000m (5:26.3)
1923 - A Charlot and N Cowards revue "London Calling," premieres in London
1923 - New York Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia A's, 2-0
1927 - Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour
1930 - Cambridge Theater opens in London
1932 - 15th PGA Championship: Olin Dutra at Keller Golf Club St. Paul, Minnesota
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* Australia vs. England XI, 104 minutes, 17 fours 4 sixes
1936 - Franco troops conquer Irun and 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 Netherlands in a State of War
1939 - German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia
1939 - German troops move into Danzig
1939 - Netherlands and Belgium declare neutrality
1939 - Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated
1939 - RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen
1940 - Gerbrandy becomes premier of Dutch government in exile
1940 - Mussert sends telegram, that Hitler has captured the Dutch
1940 - Nazi collaborator Mussert puts the fate of Netherlands in Hitler's hands
1941 - New York Yankees, win earliest AL pennent (full season)
1941 - U.S. destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652
1941 - Yankees beat Red Sox 6-3 and clinch their 12th and 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 U.S. Mens Tennis: Frank Parker beats Wm F Talbert (64 36 63 63)
1944 - British 2nd Armoured pantzer division frees Antwerp
1944 - Finland breaks diplomatic contact with nazi-Germany
1944 - U.S. 1st Army frees Namen
1945 - Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded
1945 - U.S. regains possession of Wake Island from Japan
1948 - "Angel in the Wings" closes at Coronet Theater New York City after 308 performances
1948 - Queen Wilhelmina abdicates Dutch throne
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
1950 - Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, kills about 250
1951 - 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by President Truman
1951 - 71st U.S. Mens Tennis: F A Sedgman beats Elias V Seixas, Jr. (64 61 61)
1951 - NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network
1951 - President 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 - Yankees become 1st team to win 5 consecutive championship
1954 - 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed
1954 - Peter B Cortese of U.S. achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania
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 - Hurricane Donna, kills 148 in Caribbean and US
1961 - Carol Burnette-Richard Hayes Show premieres on CBS radio
1961 - U.S. authorizes Agency for International Development
1962 - Beatles record "How Do You Do It" at EMI
1962 - French president De Gaulle visits West Germany
1964 - Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile
1964 - Longest bridge in Europe opens (Scottish 4th Road Bridge)
1964 - NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
1965 - Beatles' "Help!," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks
1965 - KREZ TV channel 6 in Durango, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1965 - Rock group Who's wan 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 - George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single
1970 - Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum
1970 - Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile
1971 - Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)
1972 - U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals
1972 - U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1973 - William E. Colby, becomes 10th director of CIA
1974 - Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1976 - Palestinians hijack KLM DC-9 to Cyprus
1977 - "Godspell" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City 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 - New York 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 vs. England, game ends at 8-429
1979 - Iran army conquerors Baneh
1980 - Yes performs its last concert (MSG)
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 - U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 - Arson fire engulfs apt-hotel in LA, 25 die
1982 - U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1983 - 83rd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel
1983 - Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship
1983 - "Joseph and the Amazing Dreamcoat" closes at Royale New York City after 747 performances
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 U.S.S.R. set a new high jump world record at 7-11 12
1985 - New York Mets Gary Carter's 2 home runs ties record of 5 home runs in 2 games
1986 - 189.42 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1986 - Claude Brochu becomes CEO of Montreal Expos
1988 - Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills, New York
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 New York State Theater New York City
1991 - Panel of 8 baseball experts vote to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris home run record and determine an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings
1991 - Rte 35 Theater in Hazlit, last drive-in in NJ, closes
1992 - "Scared Silent" is 1st non news program to be seen on 3 networks simultaneously. (CBS, NBC and 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 hours 1 minutes U.S. Open Tennis match concluding at 2:26 AM
1993 - Miklos Horthy appointed Hungarian admiral
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
1996 - 13th MTV Awards: Alanis Morrisett and Smashing Pumpkins wins
1997 - 14th MTV Awards
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Louisville, Kentucky on WTFX 100.5 FM
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21st Century
2004 - Hurricane Frances hits Florida, causing $40 billion in damage.
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