Daily Calendar for Friday, September 4, 2026

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Albert Schweitzer (physician) – 1965
Irene Dunne (actress) – 1990
Steve Irwin (died from a stingray barb wound to the chest while filming a documentary) – 2006
Joan Rivers (comedienne) – 2014
Willard Scott (television weatherman) – 2021

Los Angeles founded by Spanish settlers – 1781
Russian decree issued concerning Northwest America – 1821
Ten-year-old Barney Flaherty became first newsboy in the U.S. He worked for New York Sun – 1833
George Eastman received a patent for the roll-film camera – 1888
First transit of McClure Strait (Northwest Passage) made by the US Navy icebreaker, Burton Island and US Coast Guard icebreaker, Northwind – 1954
Ford Motor Company introduced the Edsel – 1957
U.S. swimmer, Mark Spitz, became the first person to win seven gold medals in a single Olympics – 1972
Bob Barker began hosting The Price is Right – 1972
Thieves stole $2 million in art from Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – 1972
A 127-pound cabbage won a prize at the Alaska State Fair – 2009
A 50-year overdue library book, The United States in World War I, was returned to the Lexington, Kentucky, public library. – 2018

Washington, D.C., got 4.4 inches of rain in 2 hours – 1939
A tornado struck Minneapolis, Minnesota – 1941
Tropical storm Delia dumped very heavy rain on Galveston, Texas, resulting in flooding – 1973
A strong dust devil whirled across the Flagstaff Pulliam Airport in Arizona, flipping a Cessna 182 plane and scattering papers in the National Weather service office. – 1986