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 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 118 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 22, 2022 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 27,704,160 minutes 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 140 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 3,544 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.
- 1886 –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.
- 1941 –World War II: a German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer.
- 1956 –The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer to use magnetic disk storage.
- 1964 –Scotland’s Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens.
- 1971 –Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
- 1985 –The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
- 1998 –Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
- 2010 –Canterbury earthquake: a 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages.
Who were born on September 4?
- 1557 –Sofie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1631)
- 1825 –Dadabhai Naoroji, An early Indian political leader (d. 1917)
- 1886 –Albert Orsborn, General of the Salvation Army (d. 1967)
- 1937 –Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer
- 1941 –Ramesh Sethi, East African cricketer
- 1969 –Noah Taylor, English-born actor
- 1969 –Ramon Dekkers, Dutch kickboxer
- 1970 –Daisy Dee, West Indian-born singer
- 1974 –Lincoln Roberts, West Indian cricketer
- 1979 –Pedro Camacho, Portuguese composer
Who died on September 4?
- 799 –Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (b. 745)
- 1588 –Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1532)
- 1852 –William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)
- 1977 –Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek musician (b. 1899)
- 1991 –Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1913)
- 1991 –Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (b. 1926)
- 1995 –Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax (b. 1950)
- 1995 –William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)
- 2006 –Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (b. 1918)
- 2006 –Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942)
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