Today In History - September 4

422 St Boniface I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
476 Romulus Augustulus, the last Roman emperor, is deposed
1609 Navigator Henry Hudson discovers the island of Manhattan
1618 "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland and kills 1,500 people
1781 Los Angeles founded in Bahia de las Fumas (Valley of Smokes) by 44 settlers.
1833 The first newsboy is hired by the NY Sun.
1864 Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama
1866 The first Hawaiian daily newspaper is published
1882 The first district is lit by electricity: NY's Pearl Street Station
1885 first cafeteria opens (NYC)
1886 Geronimo is captured, thus ending the last major US-Indian war
1888 George Eastman patents the first roll-film camera & registers the name "Kodak"
1911 Garros sets a world altitude record of 13,944 ft.
1918 US troops land in Archangel, Russia and stay for 10 months.
1927 Charles Lindbergh stops and visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour
1939 The Polish ghetto of Mir (the name of the space station) is exterminated
1945 Ruben Fine wins 4 simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded
1945 The US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan
1948 Queen Wilhelmina of Netherlands abdicates the throne
1949 Marie Robie sinks a 393 yd hole-in-one
1950 The first helicopter rescue of an American pilot behind enemy lines
1950 D. Hodgson of Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna
1951 The first transcontinental TV broadcast is made - by President Harry Truman
1951 NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast television network
1954 The first passage of McClure Strait, the famous Northwest Passage, is completed
1957 Ford Motor Co introduces the Edsel
1962 Beatles record "How Do You Do It"
1964 NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
1967 6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200
1970 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single
1971 Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, Alaska and kills 109 people
1972 US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes the first athlete to win seven Olympic gold medals
1981 Newscaster David Brinkley (Huntley & Brinkley) is released by NBC
1983 Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship
1983 Scott Michael Pellaton sets a barefoot water ski speed record of119.36 mph
1988 Mike Tyson crashes a BMW into a tree near Catskills, NY.
1988 Phoenix Cardinals play first regular-season

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