TODAY INHISTORY
Today is Friday, Sept. 4.
TODAY’ S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY
OnSept. 4, 1781, Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers under the leadership of Governo rFelipe de Neve.
ONTHISDATE
In1888, George Eastman received a patent forhis roll-filmboxcamera, and registeredhis trademark: “Kodak.”
In 1944, duringWorldWar
II, British troops liberated Antwerp, Belgium.
In1957, ArkansasGov. Orval Faubus usedArkansas National Guardsmento prevent nine Black students fromentering all-white Central HighSchool in Little Rock. FordMotorCo. began selling its ill-fated Edsel. In1962, TheBeatles, with new drummer Ringo Starr, recorded“Love Me Do” at EMIStudios in London. (Themore familiarversion with substitute drummer AndyWhite andStarron tambourinewas recorded a week later.)
In 1969, the Food and Drug Administration issued a report calling birth control pills“safe ,” despite as light riskof fatal blood-clotting disorders linked to the pills.
In 1971, anAlaskaAirlines jet crashed nearJuneau, killing all 111 people on board.
In 1974, the UnitedStates established diplomatic relations with East Germany. In1998, Internet services company Google filed for incorporation in California. In1999, IsraeliPrime Minister Ehud Bar ak and Palestinian leader Y ass er Arafat signed abreakthrough land-forsecurity agreement during a ceremony inSharmElSheikh, Egypt.
In2006,“Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin, 44, died aftera stingray’sbarb piercedhis chest.
In2014, comedianJoan Rivers died at aNewYork hospital at age 81, aweek aftergoing into cardiac arrest in a doctor’soffice during a routine medical procedure.
In2018, Amazonbecame the second publicly-traded company to reach $1 trillion in market value, following closely behind Apple. Comic actor BillDaily, the sidekick to leading men on TV’ s“I Dream of Jeannie” and“The Bob Newhart Show,”died inNew Mexico at the age of91. Tenyearsago: Protesters hurled shoes and eggs at Tony Blair in Dublin, Ireland, as he held the first public signing of his memoiras British prime ministeramid high security. Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Paul Conrad, 86, died inRancho PalosVerdes.
Fiveyearsago: Hosting SaudiArabia’s newmonarch for the first time, President BarackObamasaid theU.S. shared King Salman’sdesire foran inclusive, functioning government inYemen; their talks also addressed the
Iran nucleardeal, a source of lingering tension in theU.S.Saudi relationship. Hundreds of migrants, exhaustedafter breaking away frompolice andmarching forhours towardWestern Europe, boarded buses providedby Hungary’s government after Austria and Germanysaid theywould letthemin. Oneyearago: During an Oval Office meeting, President Donald Trump displayed a map of the National HurricaneCenter forecast fornearlyaweek earlier that showed that Hurricane Dorian could trackover Florida; themap included what appeared to beahand-drawnhalf-circle thatextendedthe coneof uncertainty over part of Alabama .( Trump had been publicly corrected by the National Weather Service after he had tweeted that Alabama would be among the states thatwould likelybehit “harderthan anticipated.”)