TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Sept. 4, 1998

Internet services company Google filed for incorporation in California.

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1781

Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers under the leadership of Governor Felipe de Neve.

1951

President Harry S. Truman addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco in the first live, coast-tocoast television broadcast.

1957

Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus used Arkansas National Guardsmen to prevent nine black students from entering all-white Central High School in Little Rock. Ford Motor Co. began selling its ill-fated Edsel.

1969

The 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.

1971

An Alaska Airlines jet crashed near Juneau, killing all 111 people on board.

1972

“The New Price Is Right,” hosted by Bob Barker, premiered on CBS.

1987

A Soviet court convicted West German pilot Mathias Rust of charges stemming from his daring flight to Moscow’s Red Square, and sentenced him to four years in a labor camp.

1999

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed a breakthrough land-for-security agreement during a ceremony in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

2006

“Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin, 44, died after a stingray’s barb pierced his chest.

2017

Texas emergency management officials said at least 60 deaths were attributed to Hurricane Harvey.