4 September

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 - 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

* 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
* Immigrant's Day (Argentinae)