Today in History

September 04

1781 - Los Angeles is founded by Spanish settlers.

1939 - South Africa and Canada declare war on Germany.

1956 - IBM introduces the world’s first commercial hard disk drive – the 350 Disk Storage Unit.

1971 - Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109.

1975 - Representatives of Egypt and Israel sign interim peace agreement in Geneva.

1991 - Country music singer Dottie West dies during surgery.

2006 Stingray barb kills Australian naturalist ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin.

2011 - Heavy rains and mudslides from powerful Typhoon Talas kills at least 15 people in Japan.

2015 - 52 Emirati soldiers are martyred when their ammunition depot was targeted by a rocket in Yemen.