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Today in History
Today in History
September 4 | ||
1260 | At the Battle of Montaperto in Italy, the Tuscan Ghibellines, who support the emperor, defeat the Florentine Guelfs, who support papal power. | |
1479 | After four years of war, Spain agrees to allow a Portuguese monopoly of trade along Africa’s west coast and Portugal acknowledges Spain’s rights in the Canary Islands. | |
1781 | Los Angeles, first an Indian village Yangma, is founded by Spanish decree. | |
1787 | Louis XVI of France recalls parliament. | |
1790 | Jacques Necker is forced to resign as finance minister in France. | |
1804 | USS Intrepid explodes while entering Tripoli harbor on a mission to destroy the enemy fleet there during the First Barbary War. | |
1820 | Czar Alexander declares that Russian influence in North America extends as far south as Oregon and closes Alaskan waters to foreigners. | |
1862 | Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army invades Maryland, starting the Antietam Campaign. | |
1870 | A republic is proclaimed in Paris and a government of national defense is formed. | |
1881 | The Edison electric lighting system goes into operation as a generator serving 85 paying customers is switched on. | |
1886 | Elusive Apache leader Geronimo surrenders to General Nelson A. Miles at Skeleton Canyon, Ariz. | |
1893 | Beatrix Potter sends a note to her governess’ son with the first drawing of Peter Rabbit, Cottontail and others. The Tale of Petter Rabbit is published eight years later. | |
1915 | The U.S. military places Haiti under martial law to quell a rebellion in its capital Port-au-Prince. | |
1941 | German submarine U-652 fires at the U.S. destroyer Greer off Iceland, beginning an undeclared shooting war. | |
1942 | Soviet planes bomb Budapest in the war’s first air raid on the Hungarian capital. | |
1943 | Allied troops capture Lae-Salamaua, in New Guinea. | |
1944 | British troops liberate Antwerp, Belgium. | |
1945 | The American flag is raised on Wake Island after surrender ceremonies there. | |
1951 | The first transcontinental television broadcast in America is carried by 94 stations. | |
1957 | Arkansas governor Orval Faubus calls out the National Guard to bar African-American students from entering a Little Rock high school. | |
1967 | Operation Swift begins as US Marines engage North Vietnamese Army troops in Que Son Valley. | |
1972 | Mark Spitz becomes first Olympic competitor to win 7 medals during a single Olympics Games. | |
1975 | Sinai II Agreement between Egypt and Israel pledges that conflicts between the two countries "shall not be resolved by military force but by peaceful means." | |
1998 | Google founded by Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin. | |
Born on September 4 | ||
1768 | Vicomte François René de Chateaubriand, French writer and chef who gave his name to a style of steak. | |
1846 | Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect and city planner. | |
1905 | Mary Renault (Mary Challans), author who wrote about her wartime experiences in The Last of the Wine and The King Must Die. | |
1908 | Richard Wright, novelist best known for Native Son. | |
1918 | Paul Harvy, radio commentator. | |
1920 | Craig Claiborne, food critic and cookbook author. | |
1920 | Maggie Higgins, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (1951) for international reporting, for her work in Korean war zones. | |
1924 | Joan Delano Aiken, author of supernatural fiction and alternative history novels for children; won Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (The Whispering Mountain), an Edgar Allen Poe Award (Night Fall) and an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for her contributions to children’s literature. | |
1927 | John McCarthy, computer and cognitive scientist who coined the term "artificial intelligence." | |
1931 | Mitzi Gaynor, actress, singer, dancer (film adaptations of There’s No Business Like Show Business, South Pacific). | |
1934 | Sir Clive William John Granger, British economist who received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. | |
1935 | Charles A. Hines, US Army major general. | |
1958 | Dr. Drew (David Drew Pinsky), syndicated radio talk show (Loveline) and television host (Dr. Drew, Lifechangers). | |
1962 | Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese physician and researcher; received Nobel Prize for his discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells (2012); awarded Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013). | |
1971 | Ione Skye, actress (Say Anything … ). | |
1978 | Wes Bentley, actor (American Beauty, The Hunger Games). | |
1981 | Beyonce Knowles, singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, producer; won five Grammy Awards for Dangerously in Love album (2003) and six for I am … Sasha Fierce (2008). |
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