Today is Tuesday, September 4, the 246th day of 2007. There are 119 days left in the year.
476 _ Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in west, is deposed
1609 _ Navigator Henry Hudson discovers island of Manhattan
1833 _ The first newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty-New York Sun)
1886 _ Geronimo is captured, ending the last major U.S.-Indian war
1888 _ George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera and registers ``Kodak"
1918 _ U.S. troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
1945 _ The U.S. regains possession of Wake Island from Japan
1948 _ Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates
1957 _ Ford Motor introduces the Edsel
1964 _ NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)
1967 _ A 6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200
1986 _ 189.42 million shares traded in the New York Stock Exchange
1988 _ Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills, N.Y.