What are the important events that happened on September 4? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 4: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 4 is the 247th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 118 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 22, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 488,040 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatetracontaheptagon’ day.
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Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 166 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,640 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 4 Historical Events
- 626 –Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne over the Tang Dynasty of China.
- 1884 –The United Kingdom ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.citation needed date=October 2011
- 1923 –Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
- 1939 –World War II: a Bristol Blenheim is the first British aircraft to cross the German coast following the declaration of war and German ships are bombed.
- 1941 –World War II: a German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer.
- 1950 –Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.
- 1964 –Scotland’s Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens.
- 1977 –The Golden Dragon Massacre took place in San Francisco, California.
- 1998 –Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
- 2001 –Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
Who were born on September 4?
- 1755 –Count Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish Army officer, diplomat and statesman. (d. 1810)
- 1908 –Richard Wright, American writer (d. 1960)
- 1913 –Stanford Moore, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)
- 1922 –Per Olof Sundman, Swedish writer and politician (d. 1992)
- 1930 –Don Ackerman, American basketball player (d. 2011)
- 1942 –Raymond Floyd, American professional golfer
- 1973 –Aaron Fultz, American baseball player
- 1973 –Jason David Frank, American actor
- 1974 –Naved Ashraf, Pakistani cricketer
- 1983 –Joshua Gardner, American sex offender and fictional fifth Duke of Cleveland
Who died on September 4?
- 1037 –King Bermudo III of León (b. 1010)
- 1063 –Tughril, Turkish conqueror of Persia and Baghdad
- 1780 –John Fielding, English magistrate and social reformer (b. 1721)
- 1794 –John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)
- 1974 –Creighton Abrams, U.S. Army general (b. 1914)
- 1986 –Otto Glória, Brazilian football coach (b. 1917)
- 1991 –Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1913)
- 1991 –Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (b. 1926)
- 1997 –Aldo Rossi, Italian architect (b. 1931)
- 2006 –Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920)
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