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On this day - September 4
476 — Romulus Augustulus is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself ...
626 — Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, ...
929 — Battle of Lenzen: Slavic forces (the Redarii and the Obotrites) ...
1260 — The Sienese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of Manfred, ...
1282 — Peter III of Aragon becomes the King of Sicily.
1479 — The Treaty of Alcáçovas is signed by the Catholic Monarchs of ...
1607 — The Flight of the Earls takes place in Ireland (14 September ...
1666 — In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great ...
1774 — New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second ...
1781 — Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina ...
1797 — Coup of 18 Fructidor in France.
1800 — The French garrison in Valletta surrenders to British troops ...
1812 — War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort ...
1827 — The Great Fire of Turku almost completely destroys ...
1839 — Battle of Kowloon: British vessels open fire on Chinese war ...
1862 — American Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee ...
1870 — Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third ...
1882 — The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first ...
1886 — American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, ...
1888 — George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a ...
1912 — Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman ...
1919 — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, ...
1923 — Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
1936 — Spanish Civil War: Largo Caballero forms a war cabinet to ...
1939 — World War II: William J. Murphy commands the first Royal Air ...
1941 — World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack of the ...
1944 — World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union.
1944 — World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberates the ...
1948 — Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health ...
1949 — Paul Robeson performs a second concert in Peekskill, New York ...
1950 — Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, ...
1951 — The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes ...
1957 — American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: The ...
1963 — Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, ...
1964 — Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially ...
1967 — Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage ...
1970 — Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
1971 — Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, ...
1972 — The Price Is Right premieres on CBS. It currently is the ...
1972 — Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at ...
1975 — The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli ...
1977 — The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco.
1985 — The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene ...
1989 — In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration ...
1995 — The 1995 Okinawa rape occurred, when 3 US servicemen abducted ...
1998 — Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two PhD ...
2001 — Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo ...
2002 — The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an ...
2007 — Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are ...
2020 — Pope Benedict XVI becomes the longest-lived pope, 93 years, ...
2022 — Ten people are killed and 15 are injured in a stabbing spree ...
2024 — A 14-year-old gunman kills four people and injures seven in a ...