September 4 in history — What Happened Today in History

Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.

The Price Is Right premieres on CBS. It currently is the longest running game show on American television.

Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.

Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.

Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.

Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens.

Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.

American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: The governor of Arkansas calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School, resulting in the lawsuit Cooper v. Aaron the following year.

The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, United States, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.

Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.

Paul Robeson performs a second concert in Peekskill, New York eight days after the Peekskill riots.

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.

World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp.

World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union.

World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack of the war against a United States warship, the USS Greer.

World War II: William J. Murphy commands the first Royal Air Force attack on Germany.

Spanish Civil War: Largo Caballero forms a war cabinet to direct the republican war effort.

Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.

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.

Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands

George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.

The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.

Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.

American Civil War: Confederate calvary general John Hunt Morgan is ambushed and killed by Union troops during a surprise raid on Greeneville, Tennessee.

American Civil War: The Maryland campaign begins as Confederate General Robert E. Lee leads the Army of Northern Virginia into Maryland, starting his first invasion of the North.

Battle of Kowloon: British vessels open fire on Chinese war junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community in China in the first armed conflict of the First Opium War.

The Great Fire of Turku almost completely destroys Finland's former capital city.

Anders Zachariassen, Danish handball player

James Bay, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Andrelton Simmons, Curaçaoan baseball player

Adam Duvall, American baseball player

JJ Hickson, American basketball player

Wesley Blake, American wrestler

Marisa Kabas, American journalist

Ayumi Kaihori, Japanese footballer

Xavier Woods, American wrestler

Raúl Albiol, Spanish footballer

Walid Mesloub, Algerian footballer

Hamish McIntosh, Australian footballer

Kyle Mooney, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter

Graham Brazier, New Zealand singer-songwriter (born 1952)

Jean Darling, American actress (born 1922)

Wilfred de Souza, Indian surgeon and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Goa (born 1927)

Warren Murphy, American author and screenwriter (born 1933)

Ron Mulock, Australian lawyer and politician, 10th Deputy Premier of New South Wales (born 1930)

Gustavo Cerati, Argentine Musician (born 1959)

Wolfhart Pannenberg, Polish-German theologian and academic (born 1928)

Joan Rivers, American comedian, television host, and author (born 1933)

Michel Pagé, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1949)

Dick Raaymakers, Dutch composer and theorist (born 1930)

Daniele Seccarecci, Italian bodybuilder (born 1980)

Stanislav Stepashkin, Russian boxer (born 1940)

Casey Viator, American bodybuilder and journalist (born 1951)