You can check here and there. This is what stood out to me:
1802–A French aeronaut dropped eight-thousand feet equipped with a parachute.
1939– The Nazis marched into Czestochowa, Poland, two days after they invaded Poland.
1951–President Truman addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco in the first live, coast-to-coast television broadcast.
1984–Brian Mulroney’s landslide victory in general elections in Canada.
1985–The first pictures of the wreck of the Titanic are released 73 years after the liner sank with the loss of 1,500 lives.
What stood out to you–KSH?
1682 –Sep 4, English astronomer Edmund Halley saw his namesake comet.
1965–Sep 4, Beatles’ “Help!,” single went #1 for 3 weeks.
1967–Sep 4, Michigan Gov. George Romney told a TV interview he’d undergone a “brainwashing” by U.S. officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam, a comment that apparently damaged Romney’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
1969–Sep 4, The US Food and Drug Administration issued a report calling birth control pills safe, despite a slight risk of fatal blood-clotting disorders linked to the pills.
1969–Sep 4, In California Gov. Ronald Reagan signed the first no-fault divorce package into law, effective January 1, 1970.
476 AD:In what was eesentially a dispute over pensions, the German Odoacer named himself King of Italy and ended the Western Roman Empire
1985 : the Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene. Long term significance unknown.
1998 Google founded by Stanford college students.
1824 Birth of Anton Bruckner
1892 Birth of Darius Milhaud
1968 Birth of Mike Piazza
The last because my grandson is fascinated by the Titanic and its sinking.