About September 4
September 4, 2024 is the 248th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 118 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 147 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 4
- 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.
- 1666 –In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1884 –The United Kingdom ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.citation needed date=October 2011
- 1912 –Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
- 1944 –World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union.
- 1944 –World War II: the British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1963 –Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.
- 1971 –Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
- 1975 –The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed.
- 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.
- 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.
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