September 4
Activity of the day
Today is . . .
- Newspaper Carrier Day in the United States, commemorating the day on which Barney Flaherty became the first paperboy in 1833
- Immigrant's Day in Argentina
On this day . . .
- Los Angeles is founded by Spanish settlers (1781)
- Geronimo, the Apache chief, surrenders to the U.S. army (1886)
- George Eastman receives a patent for his roll-film camera and registers his trademark - Kodak (1888)
- Arkansas Governor, Orval Faubus, calls out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock (1957)
- Mark Spitz becomes the first person to win seven gold medals at the Olympic Games in Munich (1972)
- Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University (1998)
- Singer Kelly Clarkson is voted the first “American Idol” in the U.S. (2002)
- “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin dies after being pierced by a stingray (2006)
Births
- Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (1824)
- Mary Renault, English novelist (1905)
- Tom Watson, American golfer (1949)
- Mark Ronson, English DJ/Producer (1977)
- Beyoncé Knowles, American singer (1981)
Deaths
- Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (1907)
- Georges Simenon, Belgian crime writer (1989)
- Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality (2006)