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The 4t o September is the 247t day o the year (248t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 118 days bidin.
Events
1774 : A beach on New Caledon , foto frae 2004
2010 : Yirdquauk damage in Christchurch , New Zealand
1774 - James Cook reaches New Caledon in the Paceefic Ocean . He names it efter an auld name for Scotland . It is nou a French overseas territory.
1781 - The ceety o Los Angeles , Californie , is foondit by 44 Spainyie settlers.
1867 - The Inglis fitbaw team Sheffield Wednesday F.C. is foondit.
1890 - The ceety o Thessaloniki , in present-day Greece , is heavily damaged bi fire.
1964 - The Forth Road Brig is openit for traffic.
1970 - Salvador Allende is electit Preses o Chile .
1972 - Soummer Mark Spitz wins his 7t gowd medal o the 1972 Simmer Olympics in Munich .
1974 - The Unitit States stairts diplomatic relations wi East Germany .
1989 - East Germany 's Monanday protests stairt in Leipzig .
1998 - Google is foondit bi Larry Page an Sergey Brin .
1999 - A car bomb ootside a residential biggin in Buinaksk, Dagestan , Soothren Roushie , kills 64 fowk.
2006 - Australian naituralist Steve Irwin is kilt bi a stingray off the Queensland coast.
2009 - An airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan kills 142 fowk.
2010 - A yirdquauk causes a lot o damage tae the New Zealand ceety o Christchurch .
2017 - The Queensferry Crossing , connectin Fife an Lowden , is offeecially opened bi Queen Elizabeth II , 53 year tae the day efter the openin o the neighbourin Forth Road Brig .
2018 - The Scotland weemen's naitional fitbaw team qualifies for its first Warld Cup, efter defeatin Albanie 2-1 away.
2020 - Pape Benedict XVI , wha demittit in 2013, becomes the langest-lived Pape in histerie.
2020 - COVID-19 pandemic : Indie reaches 4 million recordit cases.
Births
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Beyoncé
973 - Al-Biruni , Persie polymath (d. 1048 )
1241 - Alexander III o Scotland (d. 1286 )
1563 - Wanli Emperor o Cheenae (d. 1620 )
1809 - Juliusz Slowacki , Pols poet (d. 1849 )
1824 - Anton Bruckner , Austrick componer (d. 1896 )
1838 - William Gibson Sloan , Scots missionary in the Faroe Islands (d. 1914 )
1878 - Arthur Ramsay, 14t Yerl o Dawhoosie , Scots peer an sodger (d. 1928 )
1892 - Darius Milhaud , French componer (d. 1974 )
1896 - Antonin Artaud , French dramatist, poet an essayist (d. 1948 )
1913 - Kenzo Tange , Japanese airchitect (d. 2005 )
1918 - Paul Harvey , American radio host (d. 2009 )
1925 - John McKenzie , Scots fitbawer (d. 2017 )
1927 - John McCarthy , American computer scientist (d. 2011 )
1933 - Jim Clunie , Scots fitbawer (d. 2003 )
1934 - Eduard Khil , Roushie baritone sangster (d. 2012 )
1937 - Dawn Fraser , Australian soummer
1953 - Fatih Terim , Turkis fitbawer an manager
1962 - Shinya Yamanaka , Japanese stem cell researcher
1969 - Giorgi Margvelashvili , umwhile Preses o Georgie
1975 - Mark Ronson , Inglis music producer
1976 - Kirsty Hume , Scots model
1977 - Lucie Silvas , Inglis sangster
1981 - Beyoncé , American sangster an actress
1985 - Raúl Albiol , Spaingie fitbawer
1988 - Ryan Flynn , Scots fitbawer
1989 - Barry Douglas , Scots fitbawer
Daiths
1526 - John Stewart, 3rd Yerl o Lennox , Scots magnate (b. 1490 )
1808 - John Home , Scots meenister, sodger an author (b. 1722 )
1852 - William MacGillivray , Scots naituralist an zoologist (b. 1796 )
1907 - Edvard Grieg , Norse componer (b. 1843 )
1914 - William Gibson Sloan , Scots missionary in the Faroe Islands (b. 1838 )
1963 - Robert Schuman , Luxembourg-French politeecian (b. 1886 )
1965 - Albert Schweitzer , Alsatian missionary an doctor (b. 1875 )
1989 - Georges Simenon , Belgian writer (b. 1903 )
1998 - Charles Kemball , Scots chemist (b. 1923 )
2006 - Steve Irwin , Australian naituralist an telly personality (b. 1962 )
2007 - John Scott, 9t Duke o Buccleuch , Scots peer, politeecian an laundawner (b. 1923 )
2014 - Joan Rivers , American actress an comedienne (b. 1933 )
Halidays