Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on September 4 throughout history.
On September 4, 2024, a school shooting occurred at Apalachee High School near Winder, Georgia, United States. The perpetrator, 14-year-old Colt Gray, fatally shot four people. Tw…
A 14-year-old gunman kills four people and injures seven in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School near Winder,…
On September 4, 2022, Myles Sanderson killed 11 and injured 17 people in a mass stabbing at 13 locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Some o…
Ten people are killed and 15 are injured in a stabbing spree in 13 locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in…
Pope Benedict XVI was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 2005 until his resignation in 2013. Following his resignation, he chose to be known as "po…
Pope Benedict XVI becomes the longest-lived pope, 93 years, four months, 16 days, surpassing Pope Leo XIII, who died…
al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Islamist jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim worl…
Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both…
The Oakland Athletics were an American Major League Baseball (MLB) team based in Oakland, California, from 1968 to 2024. The Athletics were a member club of the American League (A…
The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record, until the Cleveland Indians…
Tokyo DisneySea is a theme park at the Tokyo Disney Resort located in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, just next to Tokyo. It opened on 4 September 2001, at a cost of 335 billio…
Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
Google LLC is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, q…
Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two PhD students at Stanford University.
The 1995 Okinawa rape incident occurred on September 4, 1995, when three black U.S. servicemen, 22-year-old U.S. Navy Seaman Marcus Dion Gill, 21-year-old U.S. Marine Rodrico Harp…
The 1995 Okinawa rape occurred, when 3 US servicemen abducted and raped a schoolchild. This would cause widespread…
Leipzig is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 633,592 residents as of 31 December 2025. It is the eighth-largest city in Germany an…
In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic…
Buckminsterfullerene is a type of fullerene with the formula C60. It has a cage-like fused-ring structure made of twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons, and resembles an associatio…
The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
The Golden Dragon massacre was a gang-related mass shooting that took place on September 4, 1977, inside the Golden Dragon Restaurant at 822 Washington Street in Chinatown, San Fr…
The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco.
The Sinai Interim Agreement, also known as the Sinai II Agreement, was a diplomatic agreement signed by Egypt and Israel on September 4, 1975, with the intention of peacefully res…
The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed.
Mark Andrew Spitz is an American former competitive swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion. He was the most successful athlete at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, winning seven…
Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
The Price Is Right is an American television game show. A 1972 revival by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman of their 1956–1965 show of the same name, the new version adds many distinct…
The Price Is Right premieres on CBS. It currently is the longest running game show on American television.
Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight operated by Alaska Airlines from Anchorage, Alaska, to Seattle, Washington, with several intermediate stops …
Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 29th president of Chile from 1970 until his suicide in 1973. As a socialist committed to de…
Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Uni…
Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
The Forth Road Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the Firth of Forth in Scotland. The bridge opened in 1964 and, at the time, was the longest suspension bridge in the worl…
Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens.
Swissair Flight 306, a Sud Aviation Caravelle named Schaffhausen, was a scheduled international flight from Zurich to Rome, via Geneva. It crashed near Dürrenäsch, Aargau, on 4 Se…
Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.
The civil rights movement was a social movement in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement …
American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: The governor of Arkansas calls out the National Guard to prevent…