Historical Events on September 4

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• 422 St Boniface I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

• 626 Shimin becomes Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China, when his father abdicates in his favour
• 925 Aethelstan crowned King of the Anglo Saxons by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Kingston upon Thames
• 1260 Battle at Montaperti, Tuscany, between rival factions the Guelphs and Ghibellines
• 1282 King of Aragon Pedro III annexes Sicily
• 1479 King Alfonso I of Portugal recognizes Isabella as queen of Castile
• 1571 Catholic rebellion in Scotland

• 1618 "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs, Switzerland, 1,500 killed

• 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] William of Orange's troops plunder Netherlands towns of Hattem and Elburg
• 1805 1st edition of Batavian State Courier published

• 1813 First US religious newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer))

• 1833 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old by the NY Sun)
• 1842 Work on Cologne cathedral recommences after a 284-year hiatus
• 1854 English and French lay siege to the eastern Russian city of Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky during the Crimean war

• 1862 North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized in San Francisco
• 1864 Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama

• 1884 Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia
• 1885 1st cafeteria opens (NYC)

• 1894 In NYC, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting against sweat shops
• 1899 8.3 earthquake shakes Yakutat Bay, Alaska
• 1904 Dalai Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet
• 1906 New York Highlanders beat Boston Pilgrims, 7 - 0 and 1 - 0 for their MLB record 5th straight doubleheader sweep
• 1911 French aviator Roland Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)
• 1912 First accident (collision) in London Underground: 22 people injured
• 1914 France, Russia, and Britain agree in a Pact of London that none will make a separate peace
• 1914 General von Moltke ceases German advance in France
• 1916 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitchers Christy Mathewson & Mordecai Brown face each other for a final time; after 25 contests Mathewson takes a 13-12 advantage with Reds 10-8 winners over Cubs
• 1918 Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic premier
• 1918 US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
• 1919 British intervene in Petrograd

• 1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
• 1920 Man o' War wins the 1 5/8-mile Lawrence Realization Stakes at Belmont Park by 100 lengths, the largest winning margin in modern thoroughbred racing history; world record time 2.40.8

• 1923 A Charlot & N Coward's revue "London Calling" premieres in London
• 1923 Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah
• 1923 New York Yankees pitcher "Sad" Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia A's, 2-0

• 1930 Cambridge Theatre opens in London
• 1933 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il

• 1936 British-Kenyan aviator Beryl Markham takes off from Abingdon in England on a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean; crash-lands at Baleine Cove on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, becoming the 1st woman to make the east-west trip [1]
• 1936 Largo Caballero becomes Spanish premier

• 1937 15-year-old cyclist Doris Kopsky becomes 1st Amateur Bicycle League of America woman's national champion in 4:22.4 in Buffalo, NY
• 1939 Dutch Second Chamber affirms the Netherlands is in a State of War with Germany
• 1939 German troops move into Danzig
• 1939 Mir, a Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland, is exterminated
• 1939 Netherlands & Belgium declare neutrality
• 1939 RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen, Germany

• 1940 CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB
• 1940 Gerbrandy becomes premier of Dutch government in exile

• 1941 New York Yankees clinch their 3rd straight AL pennant; beat the Red Sox, 6-3; earliest date in baseball history a team has captured a flag
• 1941 US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652
• 1942 Transport #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 British 11th Armoured Division frees Antwerp
• 1944 Finland breaks diplomatic contact with Nazi Germany
• 1944 US 1st Army frees Namur, Belgium
• 1945 American chess grandmaster Reuben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid (10 seconds per move) games blindfolded in New York City
• 1945 US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan
• 1947 Champion Middlesex cricket batsman Denis Compton scores 101 for South of England in tour match defeat to South Africa at Lord's; his record 17th century of the English season

• 1949 Marie Robie sinks 393 yd hole-in-one (1st hole in Furnace Brook)
• 1950 "Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts in twelve newspapers
• 1950 D McI Hodgson of St Ann Bay, Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna
• 1950 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines
• 1950 Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, kills about 250
• 1950 NASCAR’s first paved super speedway, Darlington Raceway hosts Southern 500, first 500-mile event in NASCAR history; winner Johnny Mantz in a Plymouth
• 1951 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by US President Harry Truman
• 1951 NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network

• 1953 WATR (now WTXX) TV channel 20 in Waterbury, CT (NBC) begins
• 1953 WGEM TV channel 10 in Quincy-Hannibal, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1954 Peter B. Cortese of US achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania
• 1957 Ford Motor Co. introduces Edsel automobile range

• 1960 -12] Hurricane Donna, kills 148 in the Caribbean & US

• 1961 US authorizes Agency for International Development
• 1962 Beatles record "How Do You Do It" at EMI Studios in London

• 1963 Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board
• 1964 Eduardo Frei Montalva elected President of Chile
• 1964 NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
• 1964 Scottish Forth Road Bridge opens (then the longest in Europe)
• 1965 KREZ TV channel 6 in Durango, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1965 Rock group The Who's van is vandalized with $10,000 worth of equipment stolen; group was inside the Battersea Dogs Home, buying a guard dog at the time
• 1965 The Beatles' single "Help!" goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
• 1966 Australian Jack Brabham clinches his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship with a 6th place in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza

• 1967 Train crash at Arnhem, Netherlands, kills 5
• 1968 Nigerian troops conquer the city of Aba, Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War
• 1970 -5) 29.0 cm rainfall at Workman Creek, Arizona (state record)
• 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

• 1970 Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova defects to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet in London and is granted political asylum
• 1971 Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)
• 1972 "The Price is Right" - US's longest running games show debuts on CBS
• 1972 16-year-old Ulrike Meyfarth of West Germany with a world record equalling 1.92m, wins the women's high jump gold medal at the Munich Olympics; youngest winner of individual athletics event in Olympic history
• 1972 American swimmer Melissa Belote with a world record 2:19.19 takes the 200m backstroke gold medal at the Munich Olympics; wraps up backstroke double having won the 100m in Olympic record time
• 1972 American swimmer Mike Burton sets a world record 15:52.58 to win the 1,500m gold medal at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 Italian diver Klaus Dibiasi wins his 2nd of 3 consecutive 10m platform gold medals the Munich Olympics
• 1972 John Lennon and Yoko Ono perform three songs ("Imagine"; "Now Or Never"; "Give Peace A Chance") on Jerry Lewis' 7th Muscular Dystrophy telethon at the Americana Hotel, NYC
• 1972 Kenyan legend Kipchoge Keino follows his 1,500m gold in Mexico City with an Olympic record 8:23.64 to win the 3,000m steeplechase at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 Soviet sprinter Valeriy Borzov runs 20.00 to win the men's 200m gold medal at the Munich Olympics; wraps up the 100/200m double at the Games
• 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 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1972 Willem Ruska of the Netherlands wins gold medals in both the heavyweight & open class Olympic judo competitions in Munich; first judoka to win 2 Olympic gold medals at one Games
• 1973 William E. Colby, becomes 10th director of the CIA
• 1975 Egypt and Israel sign the Sinai Interim Agreement (aka Sinai II Agreement), with the intention of peacefully resolving territorial disputes, in Geneva, Switzerland
• 1976 Palestinians hijack KLM DC-9 to Cyprus
• 1978 Jerry Lewis' 13th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $29,074,405
• 1979 India need 438 to win v England, game ends at 8-429
• 1979 Iran army conquers Baneh

• 1980 Progressive rock group Yes performs its last concert at Madison Square Garden, NYC
• 1981 Longest MLB game at Fenway Park ends in 20 innings; Seattle Mariners beat Boston Red Sox, 8-7

• 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 Californian skier Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed record; 119.36 mph

• 1983 US Men's Amateur Golf Championship, North Shore CC: Jay Sigel successfully defends title 8 & 7 over Chris Perry

• 1985 Russian Igor Paklin sets new high jump world record at 2.41m in Kobe, Japan

• 1988 The relocated Phoenix Cardinals play first regular-season NFL game; lose 21-14 v Bengals at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati
• 1989 Jerry Lewis' 24th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $42,737,219
• 1989 Monday demonstrations demanding political reforms begin at St Nicholas's church in Leipzig, East Germany, would later be replicated around the country

• 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 & PBS), about child abuse hosted by Oprah

• 1993 MLB New York Yankees 1-handed pitcher Jim Abbott no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0 at Yankee Stadium
• 1993 Penn State University plays its first football game in the Big 10, beating Minnesota 38-20; quarterback John Sacca throws 4 touchdown passes to Bobby Engram
• 1994 Bulgarian government of Lyuben Berov falls
• 1994 Chinese diver Fu Mingxia wins 10m platform gold medal at World Swimming Championships in Rome, Italy; becomes first female to win back-to-back world titles in the event
• 1994 Kansai International airport officially opens near Osaka, Japan

• 1994 Tom Tupa scores the first 2-point conversion in NFL history, running in a fake extra point attempt for the Cleveland Browns in a 28-20 win at Cincinnati
• 1995 Chicago White Sox third baseman Robin Ventura hits grand slams in consecutive innings, the 4th and 5th, of a 14-3 rout of the Texas Rangers

• 1995 Jerry Lewis' 30th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,800,000
• 1995 The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
• 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Louisville, Kentucky on WTFX 100.5 FM
• 1998 1st ever "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" hosted by Chris Tarrant debuts on ITV in Britain

• 1998 NY Yankees beat Chicago White Sox, 11-6, to win their 100th game on the earliest date in MLB history besting the 1906 Chicago Cubs & 1954 Cleveland Indians by 5 days
• 1999 MLB's Cincinnati Reds set a National League record with 9 home runs as they rout the Philadelphia Phillies, 22-3

• 2002 After blowing an 11-run lead to Kansas City, Scott Hatteberg's bottom of the 9th walk off HR gives Oakland a historic MLB victory, 12-11; A's set AL record 20 game winning streak
• 2002 Argentina pulls off one of the biggest upsets in basketball history, beating the US, 87-80 in 2nd round of the World Championships; 1st US loss in 59 games since sending NBA players to international competition in 1992

• 2006 Damon Allen moves past ex-CFL & NFL star Warren Moon as pro football's all-time leading passer; throws for 207 yards & 2 scores as Toronto routs Hamilton, 40-6; Allen 70,595 career passing yards

• 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 25 people are killed at a funeral suicide bombing in Nangarhar, Pakistan
• 2012 42 people are killed and 25 injured as a passenger bus falls down a ravine in Morocco
• 2012 Carpet that can help prevent falls among the elderly by warning them of unusual footsteps is developed
• 2012 Pauline Marois becomes the first female premier of Quebec
• 2014 Aracheological remains of a Viking fortress from the 900s CE, the Vallø Borgring, is discovered in Denmark
• 2014 Monsoon rains begin and cause flooding over a sustained period that kills over 400 people in India & Pakistan

• 2018 400-year old sunken Portuguese spice trade ship discovered near port of Cascais, Portugal
• 2018 Amazon becomes America's second trillion dollar company

• 2018 Italian city Florence bans people eating in the street in its historic center

• 2018 Strongest typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years, Jebi hits Tokushima prefecture, swamping Kansai airport and killing at least 11
• 2018 WHO reports more than a quarter of people worldwide (1.4 billion) don't get enough physical exercise to avoid major diseases

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