On this Day September 4th

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September 4th is the 247th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 118 days remain until the end of the year.


Events

476 – Romulus Augustulus 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 was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels) by 44 Spanish settlers.

1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire.

1867 – Sheffield Wednesday Football Club is founded at the Adelphi Hotel in Sheffield, becoming one of the first football clubs in the world.

1882 – The Pearl Street Station in New York City became the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.

1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his roll film camera.

1923 – Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.

1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.

1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco.

1972 – Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.

2002 – The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record.


Birthdays

973 – Al-Biruni, a Persian physician and polymath (d. 1048)

1580 – George Percy, English explorer (d. 1632)

1776 – Stephen Whitney, American businessman (d. 1860)

1824 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1896)

1848 – Lewis Howard Latimer, American inventor (d. 1928)

1901 – William Lyons, English businessman, co-founded Jaguar Cars (d. 1985)

1906 – Max Delbrück, German-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)

1912 – Syd Hoff, American author and illustrator (d. 2004)

1918 – Paul Harvey, American radio host (d. 2009)

1926 – George William Gray, a British chemist who developed liquid crystals that made displays possible (d. 2013)

1932 – Vince Dooley, American football player and coach (d. 2022)

1981 – Beyoncé, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress


Holidays and Observances

Labor Day

 There’s disagreement over how the holiday began. One version is set in September 1882 with the Knights of Labor, the largest and most influential American labor organization. The Knights in New York City held a public parade featuring various labor organizations on September 5 — with the aid of the fledgling Central Labor Union (CLU) of New York. Subsequently, CLU Secretary Matthew Maguire proposed that a national Labor Day holiday be held on the first Monday of each September to mark this successful public demonstration.

 In another version, Peter J. McGuire, a vice president of the American Federation of Labor, proposed Labor Day in September. In spring 1882, McGuire reportedly proposed a “general holiday for the laboring classes” to the CLU, beginning with a street parade of organized labor solidarity and ending with a picnic fundraiser for local unions. McGuire suggested the first Monday in September as an ideal date for Labor Day because the weather is excellent at that time of year, and it falls between July 4th and Thanksgiving. Oregon became the first U.S. state to make it an official public holiday. Twenty-nine other states had joined when the federal government declared it a national holiday in 1894.


Others Include

Eat an Extra Dessert Day

Mouthguard Day

National Macadamia Nut Day

National Wildlife Day

Umhlanga Reed Dance Day (Swazi Tribe)

West Indian Day Parade


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