TODAY in HISTORY

Today is Thursday,

September 4, the 247th day of 2014. There are 118 days left in the year. 422 St. Boniface I ends his reign as Catholic Pope. 1571 Marian Party in Scotland stages successful coup in which regent Lennox is killed. 1576 Members of the Netherlands Council of State suspected of Spanish leanings are imprisoned. 1627 Turks sign treaty with Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II. 1669 Venetians surrender Crete to Turks after one of the longest sieges in history, begun in 1648. 1781 Los Angeles is founded by Spanish settlers. 1872 Anglo- French dual control of Egypt is re- established. 1917 The American expeditionary force in France suffers its first fatalities in World War I. 1929 German dirigible Graf Zeppelin completes trip around world. 1932 France and Poland sign mutual assistance agreement. 1939 South Africa and Canada declare war on Germany. 1951 In America’s first live coast- to- coast television broadcast, US President Harry Truman addresses the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco. 1957 Egypt and Syria form economic union. 1964 British Commonwealth troops move against Indonesian guerrillas in Malaya. 1970 In Chile, Salvador Allende becomes the first Marxist freely elected President in the Western Hemisphere. 1972 US swimmer Mark Spitz wins a record seventh Olympic gold medal in the 400- metre relay at the Munich Summer Olympics. 1974 United States establishes diplomatic relations with East Germany, the last major Western nation to do so. 1975 Representatives of Egypt and Israel sign interim peace agreement in Geneva, Switzerland. 1987 UN SecretaryGeneral Javier Perez de Cuellar says Iran has agreed to negotiate implementation of UN peace plan to end its war with Iraq.