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Events on the 4th of September in history

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04 Sep 0422 St. Boniface I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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04 Sep 0476 Romulus Augustulus, last Roman Emperor in west, is deposed
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04 Sep 0476 Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself "King of Italy", thus ending the Western Roman Empire.
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04 Sep 0626 Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne over the Tang dynasty of China.
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04 Sep 1024 Conrad II the Sailor chosen German King
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04 Sep 1260 Battle at Montaperti-Guelfen vs. Ghibellijnen
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04 Sep 1260 The Sienese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of Manfred, King of Sicily, defeat the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti.
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04 Sep 1414 Peace of Atrecht: John the fearless and Armagnacs
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04 Sep 1479 The Treaty of Alcáçovas is signed by the Catholic Monarchs of Castile and Aragon on one side and Afonso V and his son, Prince John of Portugal.
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04 Sep 1571 Catholic coup in Scotland
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04 Sep 1618 "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed
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04 Sep 1666 In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.
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04 Sep 1682 English astronomer Edmund Halley sees his namesake comet
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04 Sep 1695 French garrison of castle Names surrenders for Willem III
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04 Sep 1774 New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
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04 Sep 1778 City Amsterdam signs trade agreement with US rebels
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04 Sep 1781 Los Angeles founded by 44 in Bahia de las Fumas, (Valley of Smokes)
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04 Sep 1781 Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) by 44 Spanish settlers.
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04 Sep 1797 Coup of 18 Fructidor in France.
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04 Sep 1800 The French garrison in Valletta surrenders to British troops who had been called at the invitation of the Maltese. The islands of Malta and Gozo become the Malta Protectorate.
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04 Sep 1805 1st edition of Batavian State-Current published
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04 Sep 1807 Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat
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04 Sep 1812 War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire.
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04 Sep 1813 1st US relig newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer))
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04 Sep 1833 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun)
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04 Sep 1854 English / French assault on Petropavlovsk Kamchatka
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04 Sep 1862 Gen Lee invades North with 50,000 Confederate troops
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04 Sep 1862 North Beach and Mission Railway Company organized in San Francisco
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04 Sep 1862 American Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
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04 Sep 1864 Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama
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04 Sep 1866 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published
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04 Sep 1870 3rd French Republic proclaimed as they overthrow their King
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04 Sep 1870 Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
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04 Sep 1882 Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.
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04 Sep 1885 1st cafeteria opens (NYC)
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04 Sep 1886 Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war
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04 Sep 1886 American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
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04 Sep 1888 George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera and registers "Kodak"
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04 Sep 1888 George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
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04 Sep 1893 English Author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit
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04 Sep 1894 In NYC, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops
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04 Sep 1894 Soccer team Veendam 1894 forms
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04 Sep 1899 8.3 earthquake shakes Yakutat Bay, Alaska
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04 Sep 1904 Dali Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet
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04 Sep 1906 New York Highlanders win 5th straight doubleheader
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04 Sep 1908 Caledonia and Hillhurst Football Clubs play for Central Alberta Rugby Football League championship
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04 Sep 1911 Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)
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04 Sep 1912 1st accident (collision) in Londoner Underground: 22 injured person
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04 Sep 1912 Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
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04 Sep 1914 British, French and Russian government sign Pact of London, against Germany
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04 Sep 1914 General von Moltke ceases German advance in France
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04 Sep 1916 Christy Mathewson and Mordecai Brown final baseball game
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04 Sep 1918 Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic Premier
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04 Sep 1918 US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
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04 Sep 1919 39th US Mens Tennis: William M Johnston beats Wm T Tilden (64 64 63)
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04 Sep 1919 British intervene in Petrograd
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04 Sep 1919 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
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04 Sep 1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)
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04 Sep 1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2000m (5:26.3)
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04 Sep 1923 A Charlot and N Cowards revue "London Calling, " premieres in London
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04 Sep 1923 New York Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia Athletics, 2-0
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04 Sep 1923 Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
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04 Sep 1927 Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour
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04 Sep 1930 Cambridge Theater opens in London
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04 Sep 1932 15th PGA Championship: Olin Dutra at Keller Golf Club - St. Paul, Minnesota
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04 Sep 1933 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 km/h), JR Wendell, Glenview, Illinois
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04 Sep 1936 Franco troops conquer Irun and Talavera de la Reina Spain
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04 Sep 1936 Largo Caballero becomes Spanish Premier
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04 Sep 1937 Doris Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4)
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04 Sep 1938 Vainio Muinonen wins 2nd European marathoner (2:37:28.8)
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04 Sep 1939 German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia
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04 Sep 1939 German troops move into Danzig
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04 Sep 1939 Netherlands and Belgium declare neutrality
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04 Sep 1939 Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated
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04 Sep 1939 RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen
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04 Sep 1939 World War II: A Bristol Blenheim is the first British aircraft to cross the German coast following the declaration of war and German ships are bombed.
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04 Sep 1940 CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB
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04 Sep 1940 Gerbrandy becomes Premier of Dutch government in exile
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04 Sep 1940 Mussert sends telegram, that Hitler has captured the Dutch
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04 Sep 1941 New York Yankees, win earliest AL pennent (full season)
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04 Sep 1941 US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652
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04 Sep 1941 Yanks beat Red Sox 6-3 and clinch their 12th and earliest pennant
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04 Sep 1941 World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer.
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04 Sep 1944 2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt
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04 Sep 1944 64th US Mens Tennis: Frank Parker beats Wm F Talbert (64 36 63 63)
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04 Sep 1944 British 2nd Armoured pantzer division frees Antwerp
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04 Sep 1944 Finland breaks diplomatic contact with Nazi-Germany
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04 Sep 1944 US 1st Army frees Namen
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04 Sep 1944 World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp.
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04 Sep 1944 World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union.
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04 Sep 1945 Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded
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04 Sep 1945 US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan
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04 Sep 1948 "Angel in the Wings" closes at Coronet Theater NYC after 308 performances
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04 Sep 1948 Queen Wilhelmina abdicates Dutch throne
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04 Sep 1948 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
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04 Sep 1949 Marie Robie sinks 393 yd hole-in-one (1st hole in Furnace Brook)
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04 Sep 1949 The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
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04 Sep 1950 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines
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04 Sep 1950 D McI Hodgson of St. Ann Bay, Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna
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04 Sep 1950 Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, kills about 250
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04 Sep 1950 Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
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04 Sep 1951 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by President Truman
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04 Sep 1951 71st US Mens Tennis: F A Sedgman beats Elias V Seixas Jr (64 61 61)
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04 Sep 1951 NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network
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04 Sep 1951 President Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference
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04 Sep 1951 The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
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04 Sep 1953 WATR (now WTXX) TV channel 20 in Waterbury, CT (NBC) begins
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04 Sep 1953 WGEM TV channel 10 in Quincy-Hannibal, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
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04 Sep 1953 Yanks become 1st team to win 5 consecutive championship
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04 Sep 1954 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed
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04 Sep 1954 Peter B Cortese of US achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania
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04 Sep 1957 Ford Motor Co introduces Edsel
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04 Sep 1957 Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school
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04 Sep 1957 American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
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04 Sep 1957 The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
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04 Sep 1961 Carol Burnette-Richard Hayes Show premieres on CBS radio
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04 Sep 1961 US authorizes Agency for International Development
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04 Sep 1962 Beatles record "How Do You Do It" at EMI
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04 Sep 1962 French President De Gaulle visits German FR
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04 Sep 1963 Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.
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04 Sep 1964 Eduardo Frei elected President of Chile
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04 Sep 1964 Longest bridge in Europe opens (Scottish 4th Road Bridge)
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04 Sep 1964 NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
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04 Sep 1964 Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens.
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04 Sep 1965 KREZ TV channel 6 in Durango, CO (CBS / NBC) begins broadcasting
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04 Sep 1966 Houston Oilers holds Denver Broncos to no 1st downs winning 45-7
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04 Sep 1966 Jim Hogan wins Europe marathon (2:20:04.6)
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04 Sep 1967 6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200
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04 Sep 1967 Train crash at Arnhem Neth, kills 5
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04 Sep 1967 Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
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04 Sep 1968 Nigerian troops conquer Aba Biafra
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04 Sep 1970 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single
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04 Sep 1970 Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum
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04 Sep 1970 Salvador Allende wins presidential election in Chile
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04 Sep 1970 Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
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04 Sep 1971 Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)
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04 Sep 1971 Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
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04 Sep 1972 US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals
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04 Sep 1972 Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
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04 Sep 1973 William E Colby, becomes 10th Director of CIA
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04 Sep 1974 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
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04 Sep 1975 The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed.
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04 Sep 1976 Palestinians hijack KLM DC-9 to Cyprus
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04 Sep 1977 "Godspell" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 527 performances
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04 Sep 1977 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Rail Muscular Dystrophy Golf Classic
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04 Sep 1977 The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco.
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04 Sep 1978 New York Yankee pitcher Ron Guidry wins his 20th (on way to 25-3 season)
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04 Sep 1978 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
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04 Sep 1979 India need 438 to win vs. England, game ends at 8-429
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04 Sep 1979 Iran army conquerors Baneh
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04 Sep 1980 Yes performs its last concert (Madison Square Garden)
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04 Sep 1981 Longest game at Fenway Park completed in 20, Mariners-8, Red Sox-7
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04 Sep 1981 Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC
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04 Sep 1981 Seattle Mariners beat Boston Red Sox, 8-7, in 20 inn (started 9 / 3)
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04 Sep 1982 Arson fire engulfs apt-hotel in LA, 25 die
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04 Sep 1983 "Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" closes at Royale NYC after 747 performances
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04 Sep 1983 83rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel
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04 Sep 1983 Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph)
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04 Sep 1984 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti sentenced to 2 years
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04 Sep 1985 Igor Paklin of the USSR set a new high jump world record at 7-11 12
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04 Sep 1985 The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
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04 Sep 1986 189.42 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
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04 Sep 1986 Claude Brochu becomes CEO of Montreal Expos
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04 Sep 1988 Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills, New York
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04 Sep 1988 Phoenix Cardinals play 1st regular-season NFL game
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04 Sep 1989 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
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04 Sep 1989 In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place.
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04 Sep 1991 "Most Happy Fella" opens at New York State Theater, New York City
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04 Sep 1991 Rte 35 Theater in Hazlit, last drive-in in NJ, closes
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04 Sep 1992 "Scared Silent" is 1st non news program to be seen on 3 networks simultaneously. (CBS, NBC & PBS), about child abuse hosted by Oprah
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04 Sep 1993 Jim Abbott pitches 4-0, no-hit win over Indians at Yankee Stadium
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04 Sep 1993 Miklos Horthy appointed Hungarian Admiral
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04 Sep 1994 Bulgarian government of Berov falls
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04 Sep 1994 Cleveland Browns is 1st team in NFL to score a 2-point conversion
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04 Sep 1994 Kansai International airport officially opens
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04 Sep 1995 Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
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04 Sep 1995 WCW Monday Nitro makes its debut on TNT.
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04 Sep 1996 13th MTV Awards: Alanis Morrisett and Smashing Pumpkins wins
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04 Sep 1996 War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.
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04 Sep 1997 14th MTV Awards
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04 Sep 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Louisville KY on WTFX 100.5 FM
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04 Sep 1998 Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
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04 Sep 2001 Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
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04 Sep 2007 Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
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04 Sep 2010 Canterbury earthquake: A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages.
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