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  0476-09-04   Romulus Augustulus last Roman emperor in west is deposed  
  1609-09-04   Navigator Henry Hudson discovered island of Manhattan  
  1781-09-04   LA founded in Valley of Smokes (Indian Name)  
  1833-09-04   1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty-NY Sun)  
  1862-09-04   North Beach & Mission Railway Company organized in S.F  
  1866-09-04   1st daily newspaper in Hawaii published  
  1870-09-04   French republic proclaimed  
  1882-09-04   1st district lit by electricty (NY's Pearl Street Station)  
  1886-09-04   Geronimo is captured ending last major US-Indian war  
  1888-09-04   George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak."  
  1911-09-04   Garros sets world altitude record of 4 250 m (13 944 ft)  
  1918-09-04   US troops land in Archangel Russia stay 10 months  
  1920-09-04   last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)  
  1923-09-04   Yankee Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia Athletics  
  1933-09-04   1st airplane to exceed 300 mph JR Wendell Glenview Il  
  1941-09-04   Yanks beat Red Sox 6-3 & clinch their 12th & earliest pennant  
  1950-09-04   1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines  
  1951-09-04   1st transcontinental TV broadcast by Pres. Truman  
  1951-09-04   NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network  
  1954-09-04   1st passage of McClure Strait fabled Northwest Passage completed  
  1957-09-04   Ford Motor Co. introduced Edsel  
  1964-09-04   NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)  
  1970-09-04   George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single  
  1972-09-04   American swimmer Mark Spitz 1st athlete to win 7 olympic gold medals  
  1978-09-04   Ron Guidry wins his 20th  
  1980-09-04   Iraqi troops seized Iranian territory in a border dispute  
  1986-09-04   189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange