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The 4t o September is the 247t day o the year (248t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 118 days bidin.
Events
1774 : A beach on New Caledon , foto frae 2004 2010 : Yirdquauk damage in Christchurch , New Zealand 1774 - James Cook reaches New Caledon in the Paceefic Ocean . He names it efter an auld name for Scotland . It is nou a French overseas territory.1781 - The ceety o Los Angeles , Californie , is foondit by 44 Spainyie settlers.1867 - The Inglis fitbaw team Sheffield Wednesday F.C. is foondit.1890 - The ceety o Thessaloniki , in present-day Greece , is heavily damaged bi fire.1964 - The Forth Road Brig is openit for traffic.1970 - Salvador Allende is electit Preses o Chile .1972 - Soummer Mark Spitz wins his 7t gowd medal o the 1972 Simmer Olympics in Munich .1974 - The Unitit States stairts diplomatic relations wi East Germany .1989 - East Germany 's Monanday protests stairt in Leipzig .1998 - Google is foondit bi Larry Page an Sergey Brin .1999 - A car bomb ootside a residential biggin in Buinaksk, Dagestan , Soothren Roushie , kills 64 fowk.2006 - Australian naituralist Steve Irwin is kilt bi a stingray off the Queensland coast.2009 - An airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan kills 142 fowk.2010 - A yirdquauk causes a lot o damage tae the New Zealand ceety o Christchurch .2017 - The Queensferry Crossing , connectin Fife an Lowden , is offeecially opened bi Queen Elizabeth II , 53 year tae the day efter the openin o the neighbourin Forth Road Brig .2018 - The Scotland weemen's naitional fitbaw team qualifies for its first Warld Cup, efter defeatin Albanie 2-1 away.2020 - Pape Benedict XVI , wha demittit in 2013, becomes the langest-lived Pape in histerie.2020 - COVID-19 pandemic : Indie reaches 4 million recordit cases.
Births
John McCarthy Beyoncé 973 - Al-Biruni , Persie polymath (d. 1048 )1241 - Alexander III o Scotland (d. 1286 )1563 - Wanli Emperor o Cheenae (d. 1620 )1809 - Juliusz Slowacki , Pols poet (d. 1849 )1824 - Anton Bruckner , Austrick componer (d. 1896 )1838 - William Gibson Sloan , Scots missionary in the Faroe Islands (d. 1914 )1878 - Arthur Ramsay, 14t Yerl o Dawhoosie , Scots peer an sodger (d. 1928 )1892 - Darius Milhaud , French componer (d. 1974 )1896 - Antonin Artaud , French dramatist, poet an essayist (d. 1948 )1913 - Kenzo Tange , Japanese airchitect (d. 2005 )1918 - Paul Harvey , American radio host (d. 2009 )1925 - John McKenzie , Scots fitbawer (d. 2017 )1927 - John McCarthy , American computer scientist (d. 2011 )1933 - Jim Clunie , Scots fitbawer (d. 2003 )1934 - Eduard Khil , Roushie baritone sangster (d. 2012 )1937 - Dawn Fraser , Australian soummer1953 - Fatih Terim , Turkis fitbawer an manager1962 - Shinya Yamanaka , Japanese stem cell researcher1969 - Giorgi Margvelashvili , umwhile Preses o Georgie 1975 - Mark Ronson , Inglis music producer1976 - Kirsty Hume , Scots model1977 - Lucie Silvas , Inglis sangster1981 - Beyoncé , American sangster an actress1985 - Raúl Albiol , Spaingie fitbawer1988 - Ryan Flynn , Scots fitbawer1989 - Barry Douglas , Scots fitbawer
Daiths
1526 - John Stewart, 3rd Yerl o Lennox , Scots magnate (b. 1490 )1808 - John Home , Scots meenister, sodger an author (b. 1722 )1852 - William MacGillivray , Scots naituralist an zoologist (b. 1796 )1907 - Edvard Grieg , Norse componer (b. 1843 )1914 - William Gibson Sloan , Scots missionary in the Faroe Islands (b. 1838 )1963 - Robert Schuman , Luxembourg-French politeecian (b. 1886 )1965 - Albert Schweitzer , Alsatian missionary an doctor (b. 1875 )1989 - Georges Simenon , Belgian writer (b. 1903 )1998 - Charles Kemball , Scots chemist (b. 1923 )2006 - Steve Irwin , Australian naituralist an telly personality (b. 1962 )2007 - John Scott, 9t Duke o Buccleuch , Scots peer, politeecian an laundawner (b. 1923 )2014 - Joan Rivers , American actress an comedienne (b. 1933 )
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