On This Day:
Thursday September 4, 2014 This is the 247th day of the year, with 118 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: pearls Pearls' color varies according to the waters from which they come: Persian Gulf cream-colored, Australia white with bluish shades, pink from Sri Lanka, etc.
Holidays Curacao: Animals' Day.
Newspaper Carrier Day, anniversary of the hiring of the first "newsboy" in the U.S., Barney Flaherty, by the New York Sun in 1833.
Iran: Iman Ali Day.
Events 476 - Last emperor of the western Roman Empire, Romulus Augustus, was deposed by Odoacer, a German barbarian. Odoacer declared himself king of Italy, but later recognized Emperor Zeno of the east as the Roman ruler.
1781 - Los Angeles (El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula) was founded by Spanish settlers.
1862 - Robert E. Lee's Confederate army invaded Maryland, the start of the Antietam Campaign.
1882 - First municipal electric power station, Pearl Street Station in New York City, built by Thomas Edison, gave electricity to first 85 customers.
1886 - Geronimo, the great Apache leader, surrendered to General Nelson A. Miles at Skeleton Canyon, Arizona.
1917 - In France, U.S. forces suffered their first casualty of World War I.
1944 - British troops liberated Antwerp, Belgium.
1948 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicated the crown for health reasons. Daughter Julianna becomes queen.
1950 - The "Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuted.
1951 - President Harry Truman held the first live coast-to-coast television broadcast from San Francisco. The broadcast was carried by 94 stations.
1957 - Ford Motor Company brought out the Edsel.
1957 - Arkansas governor Orval Faubus and the Arkansas National Guard prevented nine students from entering Central High School in Little Rock. Three weeks later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent 1,000 Army paratroopers there to guarantee peaceful desegregation of the school.
1971 - An Alaska Airlines jet crashed near Juneau. One-hundred and eleven people died.
1972 - U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz won a record seventh gold medal in the Olympic Games in Munich.
1984 - Brian Mulroney leads the Progressive Conservative Party to power in Canada, ending 20 years of nearly uninterrupted Liberal rule.
1987 - West German Mathias Rust was convicted on charges after landing a plane in Moscow's Red Square. He was released after serving one year of his four-year sentence to a labor camp.
1995 - The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with more than 4,750 delegates from 181 countries attending.
Births 1768 - Vicomte François René de Chateaubriand, French writer and chef, who gave his name to the steak dish.
1824 - Austrian composer Anton Bruckner.
1846 - Daniel H. Burnham, American architect of skyscrapers and Washington, D.C.'s Union Station.
1917 - Henry Ford II, American automaker.
1918 - Paul Harvey, American radio commentator.
1920 - Craig Claiborne, American chef, food critic, and cookbook author.
1920 - Maggie Higgins, American journalist, first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (1951) for reporting in Korean war zones.
1931 - Mitzi Gaynor, American singer, dancer, and actress.
1937 - Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer who won 8 Olympic medals.
1949 - Tom Watson, American professional golfer.
1958 - Dr. Drew (born David Drew Pinsky), American radio show host.
1960 - Damon Wayans, American comedian and actor.
1968 - Michael Piazza, American professional baseball player.
1970 - Dave Buchwald, American hacker and film maker.
1981 - Beyoncé Knowles, American R&B singer.
Deaths 1965 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian-German philosopher, theologian, organist, physician, and humanitarian.
1993 - Hervé Villechaize, French actor who achieved worldwide recognition for his role as Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, in the television series "Fantasy Island."
2006 - Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality.
2006 - Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator.
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