Sept. 4 historic events
1781 Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers.
1888 George Eastman received a patent for his roll-film camera and registered his trademark: Kodak.
1917 The American expeditionary force in France suffered its first fatalities in World War I.
1942 Transport nr 28 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 2,087 Jews transported for Westerbork to KZ-Lower Theresienstadt
1951 In the first live coast-to-coast TV broadcast, President Harry S. Truman addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco.
1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock.
1957 Ford Motor Co. began selling its ill-fated Edsel line.
1967 Michigan Gov. George Romney said during a TV interview that he had undergone a “brainwashing” by U.S. officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam. The comment is widely believed to have derailed his campaign for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination.
1971 Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)
1972 Swimmer Mark Spitz became the first person to win seven gold medals at a single Olympic Games when the United States won the 400-meter relay in Munich.
1993 Jim Abbott pitches 4-0, no-hit win over Indians at Yankee Stadium (What makes this especially impressive is that he was born with only one hand – icot)
2004 Hurricane Frances hits Florida, causing $40 billion in damage.
2006 “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin, 44, died after a stingray’s barb pierced his chest.
2007 Toy maker Mattel Inc. recalled 800,000 lead-tainted, Chinese-made toys worldwide, a third major recall in just over a month.
2008 Sen. John McCain accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s convention in St. Paul, Minn.
2008 Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, forcing the Democrat out of office after months of defiantly holding onto his job.