Today is Saturday, September 4, 2010.

Birthdays

1768 Fran‡ois Ren‚ de Chateaubriand, French poet, novelist, statesman
1810 Donald McKay, US naval architect, built fastest clipper ships.
1824 Anton Bruckner, Wagner disciple
1846 Daniel Burnham, American architect, built skyscrapers
1872 Darius Milhaud, composer
1908 Richard Wright, American author (Native Son)
1917 Henry Ford II, businessman
1918 Paul Harvey, radio news commentator, "Goooood Day!"
1920 Craig Claiborne, gastronome

Events

476 Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in the west, is deposed.
1609 Navigator Henry Hudson discovers the island of Manhattan.
1781 Los Angeles is founded in the Valley of Smokes (Indian Name).
1833 1st newsboy in the US hired (Barney Flaherty), by the NY Sun
1870 French republic proclaimed
1882 First district lit by electricty (NY's Pearl Street Station)
1886 Geronimo is captured, ending last major US-Indian war
1888 George Eastman patents 1st rollfilm camera & registers "Kodak".
1911 Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft)
1918 US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
1933 First airplane to exceed 300 mph, JR Wendell, Glenview, Illinois
1950 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.
1951 First transcontinental TV broadcast, by President Truman
1954 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed
1957 Ford introduces the Edsel.
1964 NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
1972 US swimmer Mark Spitz is 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals
1980 Iraqi troops seize Iranian territory in a border dispute.

That's all for today.