SomeFacts | September 4

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 ...