TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Sept. 4, 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.

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1781

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

1917

The American Expeditionary Forces in France suffered their first fatalities during World War I when a German plane attacked a British-run base hospital in Camiers.

1944

During World War II, British troops liberated Antwerp, Belgium.

1957

Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus used Arkansas National Guardsmen to prevent nine black students from entering all-white Central High School in Little Rock.

1987

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

1998

Internet services company Google filed for incorporation in California.

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.

2008

Sen. John McCain accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

2013

Responding to President Barack Obama’s request, a sharply divided Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 10-7to authorize the “limited and specified use” of U.S. armed forces against Syria.