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Events on September 4

• 1024 In Kamba near Oppenheim, Konrad II. is elected the first Salian King of Germany.
• 1781 44 settlers found the town of Los Angeles, today the second-largest city in the USA, under the name El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula.
• 1813 In the ledger of Chancellor Hans Carl Leopold von der Gabelentz, which contains the game accounts of a group of Altenburg notables, the term “Scat” appears for the first time. This is regarded as the birth date of the game of Skat.
• 1842 During the cathedral festival in Cologne, the cornerstone is laid for the continued construction of Cologne Cathedral.
• 1959 The world premiere of the German-Danish Edgar Wallace film The Frog with the Mask takes place in Stuttgart. The film sparks a wave of crime films in Germany that continues into the 1970s.
• 1961 In the Federal Republic of Germany, a television morning program is broadcast for the first time, although it is broadcast exclusively via West German border transmitters to the residents of the GDR for almost 20 years.
• 1965 In Germany, ARD broadcasts the television lottery draw for the first time.
• 1973 The German-German Border Commission agreed upon in a supplementary protocol to the Basic Treaty begins its work with border markings on the inner German border near Lübeck.
• 1974 The USA establishes diplomatic relations with the GDR.
• 1989 At the first Monday demonstration in Leipzig, around 1200 participants call for freedom of travel, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly. In the following weeks, the demonstrations become the most important of the protest events that lead to the turnaround in the GDR.
• 1998 Founding of the US-American internet company Google, Inc.
• 2009 In the airstrike on Kundus, up to 142 people, including many civilians, are killed and others are injured.

Born on September 4

• 1869 Karl Seitz, Austrian politician, Federal President, Mayor of Vienna
• 1882 Leonhard Frank, German writer
• 1892 Darius Milhaud, French composer
• 1901 William Lyons, British entrepreneur, founder of the Jaguar car brand
• 1952 Wolfgang Flatz, Austrian action artist, musician and composer
• 1962 Shin’ya Yamanaka, Japanese physician and stem cell researcher, Nobel Prize winner
• 1980 David Garrett, German-American violinist
• 1981 Beyoncé, American singer and actress
• 1990 James Bay, British singer-songwriter
• 2001 Anna Charlott Darcel Elendt, German swimmer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „4. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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