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Today is Saturday, September 4, 2010.
Birthdays
» 1768 Fran‡ois Ren‚ de Chateaubriand
» 1810 Donald McKay
» 1824 Anton Bruckner
» 1846 Daniel Burnham
» 1872 Darius Milhaud
» 1908 Richard Wright
» 1917 Henry Ford II
» 1918 Paul Harvey
» 1920 Craig Claiborne
» 1930 Mitzi Gaynor
» 1968 Mike Piazza
» 1970 Ione Skye
» 1973 Jason David Frank
Events
- » 476 Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in the west, is deposed.
- » 1609 Navigator Henry Hudson discovers the island of Manhattan.
- » 1781 Los Angeles is founded in the Valley of Smokes (Indian Name).
- » 1833 1st newsboy in the US hired (Barney Flaherty), by the NY Sun
- » 1870 French republic proclaimed
- » 1882 First district lit by electricty (NY's Pearl Street Station)
- » 1886 Geronimo is captured, ending last major US-Indian war
- » 1888 George Eastman patents 1st rollfilm camera & registers "Kodak".
- » 1911 Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)
- » 1918 US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
- » 1933 First airplane to exceed 300 mph, JR Wendell, Glenview, Illinois
- » 1950 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.
- » 1951 First transcontinental TV broadcast, by President Truman
- » 1954 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed
- » 1957 Ford introduces the Edsel.
- » 1964 NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
- » 1972 US swimmer Mark Spitz is 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals
- » 1980 Iraqi troops seize Iranian territory in a border dispute.
News
- » Rodrigo Ortúzar announces plans to dramatize Chilean miners' stories
- » GMTV ends broadcasting in UK after 17 years
- » Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7 to manufacturing
- » Fuel tanker aground in Northwest Passage
- » Texas woman accused of shooting landlord dies in hospital
- » Magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits New Zealand
- » Scientist detained after bomb scare closes Miami airport
- » New South Wales Legislative Assembly votes in favor of same-sex adoption
- » Jamaica to host the 2011 CONCACAF under-17 football championship
- » Australian teacher drops 'gay' from kookaburra folk song
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