September 4<\/p>\n
476 \u2013 Emperor Flavius Romulus Augustus is deposed by the Goth, Odoacer who proclaims himself “King of Italy”, ending the Western Roman Empire.<\/p>\n
1774 \u2013 During his second voyage of exploration, Captain James Cook sights New Caledonia.<\/p>\n
1781 \u2013 Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Se\u00f1ora La Reina de los \u00c1ngeles<\/p>\n
1812 \u2013 During the War of 1812,\u00a0 Fort Harrison, overlooking the Wabash River of what is today the city of Terre Haute, Indiana, is besieged by a combined force of 600 Potawatomi, Wea, Shawnee, Kickapoo and Winnebago Indians.<\/p>\n
1862 \u2013\u00a0 The Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee invades Maryland.<\/p>\n
1882 \u2013 The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.<\/p>\n
1886 \u2013 Geronimo surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.<\/p>\n
1888 \u2013 George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak<\/em> and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.<\/p>\n 1939 \u2013 On the first Royal Air Force attack on Germany, Flight Officer William J. Murphy becomes the first British pilot killed in the war.<\/p>\n 1950 \u2013 Darlington Raceway, in South Carolina, is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.<\/p>\n 1957 \u2013 The governor of Arkansas,\u00a0Orval Faubus calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.<\/p>\n 1965 \u2013 Albert Schweitzer dies at his hospital in Lambar\u00e9n\u00e9, Gabon<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 Operation Swift <\/em>during the Vietnam War\u00a0begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.<\/p>\n 1972 \u2013 Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 5 members of the Joe Boys gang attempt to kill leaders of the rival Wah Ching gang in the Golden Dragon Restaurant in Chinatown, San Francisco, leaving 5 people dead and 11 others injured, none of whom were gang members.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013 The first geodesic allotrope molecule of carbon, C60,<\/sub>\u00a0discovered after accidental synthesis at Rice University in Houston, Texas, is named Buckminsterfullerene<\/em> in honor of the designer of the geodesic dome; Richard Buckminster Fuller.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 Tied at 11 runs, the Oakland Athletics at their home ballpark, defeat the Kansas City Royals with a ‘walk-off’ home run by Scott Hatteberg , winning their 20th consecutive game, a still current American League record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 4 476 \u2013 Emperor Flavius Romulus Augustus is deposed by the Goth, Odoacer who proclaims himself “King of Italy”, ending the Western Roman Empire. 1774 \u2013 During his second voyage of exploration, Captain James Cook sights New Caledonia. 1781 \u2013 Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Se\u00f1ora La Reina de los … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59119"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95720,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59119\/revisions\/95720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}