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Events

• 1827 (199 years ago) The Great Fire of Turku almost completely destroys Finland's former capital city.
• 1886 (140 years ago) American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
• 1912 (114 years ago) Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
• 1919 (107 years ago) Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
• 1939 (87 years ago) World War II: William J. Murphy commands the first Royal Air Force attack on Germany.
• 1951 (75 years ago) The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, United States, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
• 1970 (56 years ago) Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
• 1989 (37 years ago) In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place.

Births

• 973 (1053 years ago) Al-Biruni, Persian physician and polymath (died 1048)
• 1768 (258 years ago) François-René de Chateaubriand, French historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for France (died 1848)
• 1824 (202 years ago) Anton Bruckner, Austrian organist and composer (died 1896)
• 1896 (130 years ago) Antonin Artaud, French actor, director, and playwright (died 1948)
• 1927 (99 years ago) John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic (died 2011)
• 1969 (57 years ago) Giorgi Margvelashvili, Georgian academic and politician, 4th President of Georgia
• 1981 (45 years ago) Beyoncé, American singer-songwriter
• 1985 (41 years ago) Raúl Albiol, Spanish footballer

Deaths

• 422 (1604 years ago) Boniface I, pope of the Catholic Church
• 1907 (119 years ago) Edvard Grieg, Norwegian pianist and composer (born 1843)
• 1963 (63 years ago) Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, 130th Prime Minister of France (born 1886)
• 1965 (61 years ago) Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician, theologian, and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1875)
• 1989 (37 years ago) Georges Simenon, Belgian-Swiss author (born 1903)
• 2006 (20 years ago) Steve Irwin, Australian zoologist and television host (born 1962)
• 2014 (12 years ago) Joan Rivers, American comedian, television host, and author (born 1933)
• 2025 (a year ago) Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer (born 1934)

All 355 events, births and deaths of September 4