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This Day In History – September 4
1666 – In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.
1862 – Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
1884 – The United Kingdom ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.
1886 – American Indian Wars: after almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
1918 – Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (d. 2009) was born.
1941 – World War II: a German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer.
1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
1957 – American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis – Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
1977 – The Golden Dragon Massacre took place in San Francisco, California.
1996 – War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.
1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
2006 – Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality (b. 1962), died.
2012-09-03 20:10:02
Source: http://deadlinelive.info/2012/09/03/this-day-in-history-september-4/
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