September 4
Today is
Newspaper Carrier Day, honoring
Barney Flaherty, the first newspaper carrier (
paperboy), hired in 1833, as well as current paper carriers.
1666 – In London, England, the most destructive damage from the
Great Fire occurs.
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.
1862 – American Civil War:
Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
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.
1886 –
American 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.
1939 – World War II: A
Bristol Blenheim is the first British aircraft to cross the German coast following the declaration of war. German ships are bombed.
1941 – World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the
USS Greer.
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. The Southern 500 is being held today, at Darlington Raceway. That's
66 years. Racetime: 6:00 p.m. EST.
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.
The Ford Motor Company introduces the
Edsel.
So, that's
two things that failed in 1957. Ford and Faubus musta been bummed.
1964 – Scotland's
Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens.
1965 -
The Who had their van stolen containing over £5000 worth of equipment outside the
Battersea Dogs Home. The band were inside the home at the time buying a guard dog. The van was later recovered. Guess they shoulda got a guard dog
last week.
1967 – Vietnam War:
Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the
Que Son Valley.
1969 - The film '
Easy Rider' starring
Jack Nicholson Peter Fonda and
Dennis Hopper opened at The Classic in London England. The movie's soundtrack featured
The Band,
The Jimi Hendrix Experience and
Steppenwolf.
1972 –
Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
1985 – The discovery of
Buckminsterfullerene, the first
fullerene molecule of carbon.
1998 – Google is founded by
Larry Page and
Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
2010 – A 7.1 magnitude earthquake
strikes the South Island of New Zealand causing widespread damage and several power outages.
Births
1901 – William Lyons (co-founded Jaguar Cars); 1908 – Edward Dmytryk (directed
The Caine Mutiny); 1913 – Mickey Cohen 'The King of Los Angeles' (mob boss); 1917 – Henry Ford II;
1918 – Paul Harvey; 1919 – Howard Morris ('Ernest T. Bass' on
The Andy Griffith Show); 1931 – Mitzi Gaynor
; 1942 – Raymond Floyd; 1942 – Merald "Bubba" Knight♪ ♫(Gladys Knight & The Pips); 1944 –
Gene Parsons
(The Byrds); 1945 –
Danny Gatton; 1946 – Gary Duncan
; 1949 – Tom Watson; 1951 – Judith Ivey; 1956 – Blackie Lawless
(WASP); 1957 – Khandi Alexander; 1958 – Drew Pinsky (
Dr. Drew); 1960 – Kim Thayil
(Soundgarden), Damon Wayans; 1968 – John DiMaggio (voice of 'Bender' on
Futurama); 1970 - Igor Cavalera
(Sepultura); 1971 – Ione Skye, Ty Longley
(Great White); 1981 – Beyoncé Carter♪ ♫; 1982 – Whitney Cummings (co-creator
2 Broke Girls)
Deaths
1864 – John Hunt Morgan; 1965 – Albert Schweitzer; 1974 – Creighton Abrams (namesake of the
M1 Abrams main battle tank); 1990 – Irene Dunne; 1991 – Tom Tryon, Dottie West♪ ♫; 1993 – Hervé Villechaize ("De plane!
De Plane!"); 1995 – William Kunstler; 2001 – Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf (It does
not seem like
15 years since he died.); 2006 – Steve Irwin ("
Crikey!"); 2014 – Joan Rivers