It happened on this day, September 4th.
Events:
1870 – The forces of French Emperor Napoleon III are defeated by German forces and he is captured by the Germans.
1888 – American inventor George Eastman registers the Eastman Kodak trademark.
1899 – The Egyptian army raises the Egyptian and British flags above the palace of the ruler of Sudan.
1909 – End of the Swedish general strike.
1932 – France and Poland sign a mutual assistance agreement.
1948 – Queen Wilhamina of the Netherlands abdicates the throne in favor of her daughter Juliana.
1953 – The first session of the “Arab Joint Defense Council” takes place in Cairo.
1970 – Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
1974 – The United States decides to establish diplomatic relations with East Germany, making it the last Western country to establish relations with the communist state established in eastern Germany after World War II.
1977 – Djibouti joins the League of Arab States.
1981 – Assassination of the French ambassador to Lebanon, Louis de Lamarre.
1990 – US President George Bush releases Egypt from its military debts.
1997 – A Palestinian resistance operation in occupied Jerusalem; killed seven people and injured 150 others.
1998 – The Google search engine is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
1999 – The first Russian apartment bombings took place in Buinaksk, killing 293 people and injuring 651 others.
2010 – Bahraini authorities announce the dismantling of a secret network and thwart terrorist plans aimed at compromising national security, undermining national unity and sabotaging public and private property.
2013 – Ibrahim Boubacar Keita assumes the presidency of Mali as the fifth president of Mali, succeeding Dioncounda Traoré.
2014 – Archaeologists announce their discovery of the oldest abstract artwork attributed to Neanderthals in the Goram Sea Cave, Gibraltar.
✴️ Al-Qaeda announces the establishment of a new branch in the Indian subcontinent.
2015 – The Moroccan municipal and regional elections saw the Justice and Development Party take the lead in the regional elections and the Authenticity and Modernity Party in the municipal elections.
✴️ 45 Emirati soldiers, 32 Yemenis, 10 Saudis and 5 Bahrainis from the Arab coalition were killed in a bombing with a Tochka missile in Ma'rib, northern Yemen.
✴️ The funeral of Syrian refugee child Aylan Kurdi after he drowned on the Turkish coast.
✴️ The assassination of Druze Sheikh Abu Fahd Wahid Al-Balous, an opponent of the Syrian regime, by targeting his car in the Ain Al-Marj neighborhood in As-Suwayda governorate.
2016 – Pope Francis declares Mother Teresa a saint in the Catholic Church in recognition of her humanitarian services and sacrifices.
2017 – Monsoon floods kill nearly 1,300 people in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh.
✴️ The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization issues a statement demanding that the Nobel Prize Committee withdraw its peace prize from Burmese Prime Minister Aung San Suu Kyi after she was accused of supporting massacres against Muslims in her country.
2018 – Tropical Cyclone Jebi hits Japan, killing 16 people and causing significant damage in the Kansai region.
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Births:
1768 – Viscount Duchateaubriand, French writer and poet.
1824 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer.
1833 – Christoph Friedrich Hegelmayer, German physicist and botanist.
1896 – Antonin Artaud, French poet and actor.
1913 – Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect.
** Stanford Moore, American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972.
1926 – Elias Hrawi, President of the Lebanese Republic.
1934 – Clive Granger, Welsh economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2003.
** Edward Khil, Russian singer.
1953 – Fatih Terim, Turkish footballer and coach.
1962 – Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese physician who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2012.
1971 – Mike Taylor, Northern Irish footballer.
1975 – Mark Ronson, English musician.
1976 – Denilson Nascimento, Brazilian footballer.
1979 – Ahmed Irag, Kuwaiti actor.
** Nadine Al Rassi, Lebanese actress.
1981 – Richard Garcia, Australian rules footballer.
1983 – Menna Fadali, Egyptian actress.
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Death:
1063 – Tughrul Bey, Seljuk sultan.
1963 – Robert Schuman, French Prime Minister.
1965 – Albert Schweitzer, German philosopher, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1952.
1997 – Aldo Rossi, Italian architect.
2006 – Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer and president of Inter Milan.
**Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality.
2010 – Mohy El-Din El-Labbad, Egyptian painter and visual artist.
2011 – Aisha bint Mohammed V, Alawite princess of the Moroccan royal family.
2015 – Abu Fahd Wahid Al-Balous, a Syrian Druze sheikh opposed to the regime.
2021 – Shafiq Al-Ghabra, Kuwaiti academic and political analyst of Palestinian origin.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ Migrant Day in Argentina.
⬅️ Journalism Professional Day in the United States.
