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Yesterday's history, today's story, history's today

September 4 is the 247th day of the solar year, with 118 days left before the end of the year.

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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" >5th century</h1>

476: The Germanic leader Odoac captures Ravenna and deposes the Western Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus, and the Western Roman Empire falls.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" >7th century</h1>

626: Emperor Taizong of Tang officially ascends the throne as Emperor Li Shimin.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > 15th century</h1>

1479: The Catholic duo of castille and aragonese signs the Treaty of Arcazovás with King Alfonso V of Portugal.

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1774: English explorer James Cook discovers the island of New Caledonia.

1781: Los Angeles is founded.

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1812: War of 1812: The Battle of Harrison's Fortress breaks out.

1839: During the Battle of Kowloon, British warships fire on Qing Dynasty warships.

1870: A revolution breaks out among the people of Paris, the French Emperor Napoleon III is deposed and the French Third Republic is established.

1888: American inventor George Eastman registers a trademark in Kodak after patenting a film camera.

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1972: American swimmer Mark Spitz wins his seventh gold medal at the Munich Olympics, becoming the athlete who won the most gold medals in a single Olympics at the time. This record was maintained until 2008, when his compatriot And equally good swimmer Michael Phelps won eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics.

1975: Egypt signs the Sinai Interim Agreement with Israel, and Egypt recovers the Sinai Peninsula.

1990: North Korean Prime Minister Yeon Hyunmo crosses the 38th Parallel to Seoul and holds the first prime ministerial talks with South Korean Prime Minister Kang Young-hoon since the korean peninsula was divided.

1993: The 7th National Games of the People's Republic of China opens in Beijing.

1994: During the Galaxy incident, all cargo on the Galactic freighter was searched and no chemical weapons suspected by the U.S. government were found.

1995: Auction website ebay (formerly known as Actionweb) is officially established.

1995: The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with 4,750 participants from 181 countries.

1998: The Internet search engine Google is founded.

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2001: Tokyo DisneySea opens.

2007: Shen Shijun, the youngest university student in Hong Kong, attends Hong Kong Baptist University.

2010: A magnitude 7.1 earthquake on the Richter scale struck New Zealand's South Island, causing economic damage of up to NZ$350 million.

2020: Serbian President Aleksandr Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti sign an agreement on "economic normalization" at the U.S. White House.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45" > was born</h1>

1241 : Alexander III, King of Scotland (died 1286)

1563: Emperor Mingshen zhu Yijun, Emperor of the Ming Dynasty (died 1620)

1652 – Tokugawa Tsunade, 3rd lord of Owari Domain (died 1699)

1768 - François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer (died 1848)

1787: Ninomiya Masatoku (Ninomiya Kanejiro), thinker (died 1856)

1824: Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (d. 1896)

1825: Naororgi, Indian educator (died 1917)

1850: Luigi Cadorna, Italian soldier (died 1928)

1892: Darus Mijoux, Jewish-French composer, member of the Group of Six; one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century (died 1974)

1895: Xiang Jingyu, leader of the Chinese women's movement (died 1928)

1896: Antonin Aalto, French poet (died 1948)

1905: Mary Reynot, British writer (died 1983)

1906: Max Delbrück, German-American biophysicist (died 1981)

1908: Richard Wright, American writer (died 1960)

1913: Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (died 2005)

1913: Stanford Moore, American biochemist (died 1982)

1913: Mickey Kohan, head of the American Mafia (died 1976)

1924: Joan Aiken, English novelist best known for her children's literature and historical fiction. (died 2004)

1925: Isa Carter, American apartheidist (died 1975)

1927: John McCarthy, American computer scientist, inventor of "artificial intelligence" at the Dartmuth Conference in 1955, inventor of LISP (died 2011)

1944: Tony Atkinson, British economist (died 2017)

1951 Kaoru Kobayashi, Japanese actor

1961: Wong Il-wah, Hong Kong actor

1965: Norma Lam, Hong Kong actor

1971: Yuen Wing Yee, Hong Kong actress

1980: Ran Muto, actress

1981: Beyoncé Nollis, American singer and actress

1982: Zhang Junning, Taiwanese actor

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422: Pope Ponygmy I

799 : Musa Qazim, Islamic Shia imam (b. 745)

- 1037: Bermuda III, King of León (b. 1015)

1063 – Tuhrile Berg, Sultan of the Seljuk Empire (b. 990)

- 1323 – Emperor Yingzong of Yuan, Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (b. 1303)

1916 José Echegalai, Nobel Laureate in Literature, Spanish playwright (b. 1832)

2014: Joan Reeves, American actor (b. 1933)

2019: Dai Tielang, Chinese animation director (born 1930)

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="119" > holidays and customs</h1>

Argentina: Migration Day

USA: Newspaper Carrier Festival

Mother Teresa's Canonization Day