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| September 4th |
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| About September 4th is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 118 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. September 4th is Newspaper Carrier Day in the United States. Births 1918 - Paul Harvey, radio broadcaster (The Rest of the Story) 1929 - Thomas Eagleton, former U.S. Senator (briefly runningmate to George McGovern) 1960 - Damon Wayans, comedian, actor (In Living Color, Major Payne) Deaths 1965 - Albert Schweitzer, theologian, physician (Nobel Peace Prize winner) 1974 - Creighton Abrams, U.S. Army General during the Vietnam War 1986 - Hank Greenberg, Hall of Fame first baseman 2006 - Steve Irwin, television personality, wildlife expert Events 1962 - Ringo Starr is brought in to play on The Beatles' second EMI recording session. He would later become their permanent drummer. 1971 - Alaska Airlines Flight 1866, a Boeing 727 with 111 people on board, crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing everyone aboard. 1998 - Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University, start a new internet search engine called google. |
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