Events
of the day
476
– Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of the Western
Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims
himself "King of Italy", thus ending
the Western Roman Empire.
626 – Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor
Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne over the
Tang Dynasty of China.
1260 – The Sienese Ghibellines, supported by
the forces of King Manfred of Sicily, defeat
the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti.
1666 – In London, England, the most destructive
damage from the Great Fire occurs.
1774 – New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans,
during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
1781 – Los Angeles, California, 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.
1797 – Coup of 18 Fructidor in France.
1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison
begins when the fort is set on fire.
1862 – Civil War Maryland Campaign: General
Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia,
and the war, into the North.
1870 – Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed
and the Third Republic is declared.
1884 – The United Kingdom ends its policy of
penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.[citation
needed]
1886 – Indian Wars: after almost 30 years of
fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining
warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles
in Arizona.
1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark
Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that
uses roll film.
1912 – Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt
when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their
demands
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.
1923 – Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship,
the USS Shenandoah.
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.
1941 – World War II: a German submarine makes
the first attack against a United States ship,
the USS Greer.
1944 – World War II: the British 11th Armoured
Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp.
1944 – World War II: Finland exits from the
war with Soviet Union.
1948 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates
for health reasons.
1949 – The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul
Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the
inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR
race.
1951 – The first live transcontinental television
broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California,
from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
1956 – The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the
first commercial computer to use magnetic disk
storage.
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.
1957 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the
Edsel.
1963 – Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch,
Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.
1964 – Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh
officially opens.
1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins:
U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in
battle in the Que Son Valley.
1971 – Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near
Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
1972 – Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor
to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
1975 – The Sinai Interim Agreement relating
to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed.
1977 – The Golden Dragon Massacre took place
in San Francisco, California.
1985 – The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene,
the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
1989 – In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of
weekly demonstration for the legalisation of
opposition groups and democratic reforms takes
place.
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.
1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey
Brin, two students at Stanford University.
2001 – Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as
part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu,
Chiba, Japan.
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.
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.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Blessed Catherine of Racconigi
Moses and Aaron (Lutheran Church and Eastern
Orthodox Church)
Rosalia
Rose of Viterbo
Ultan of Ardbraccan
September 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Immigrant's Day (Argentina)
Newspaper Carrier Day (United States)
The first day of the Ludi Romani until 19 September.
(Roman Empire)
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