41st year - Nr 247 Friday, 4 September 2026

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41st year - Nr 247 Friday, 4 September 2026

4 September / Today's 20 Events:

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(+) 785 years ago Wednesday 4th of September 1241 King of Scots Alexander III aka Alaxandair mac Alaxandair is born in Roxburgh Castle, Roxburgh, United Kingdom.

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(-) 503 years ago Tuesday 4th of September 1523 218th Pope Hadrianus VI, originally Adriaan Florensz Boeyens dies of unknown causes at the age of 64 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 258 years ago Sunday 4th of September 1768 Writer, politician, diplomat and historian François-René de Chateaubriand aka The Father of Romanticism is born in Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France.

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(+) 202 years ago Saturday 4th of September 1824 Composer Anton Bruckner is born in Augustinerstraße 3, Ansfelden, Oberösterreich, Austria.

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(+) 138 years ago Tuesday 4th of September 1888 Painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer Oskar Schlemmer known for Das Triadisches Ballett is born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(+) 135 years ago Friday 4th of September 1891 SA-Obergruppenführer and Reichsminister für Bewaffnung und Munition Fritz Todt known for Bautruppe Organisation Todt is born in Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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(-) 132 years ago Tuesday 4th of September 1894 Benjamin Freelon Pitezel is murdered by serial killer Henry Howard Holmes aka The Torture Doctor in 1316 Callowhill Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Pitezel had agreed to fake his own death so that his wife could collect on the $10.000 policy, which she was to split with Holmes.

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(+) 130 years ago Il n'Était pas Cruel Friday 4th of September 1896 Playwright, poet, actor and theatre director Antonin Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud known for le Théâtre de la Cruauté is born in Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

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(+) 122 years ago Sunday 4th of September 1904 SS-Standortarzt at Auschwitz KZ Eduard Wirths is born in Geroldshausen, Bayern, Germany.

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(-) 119 years ago It Needed to Be So Wednesday 4th of September 1907 Composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg dies of unknown causes at the age of 64 in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway. Grieg's final words were "Well, if it must be so."

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(+) 111 years ago Saturday 4th of September 1915 Tenor Rudolf Schock aka Der Czárdás-König is born in Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(-) 86 years ago Wednesday 4th of September 1940 Murderer William Nelson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Tennessee State Prison, Nashville, Tennessee, United States.

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(x) 63 years ago Wednesday 4th of September 1963 80 die in Swissair Flight SR306 Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III crash in Dürrenäsch, Aargau, Switzerland. 43 people from Humlikon boarded the plane to visit a farm test site near Geneva. The village lost one fifth of its population of 217 in the crash.

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(-) 61 years ago Saturday 4th of September 1965 Theologican, physician, musician and moralist Albert Schweitzer dies of at the age of 90 in Lambaréné, Gabon.

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(x) 55 years ago Saturday 4th of September 1971 111 die in Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 Boeing 727 crash into a mountain in Haines Borough, Alaska, United States.

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(+) 54 years ago Monday 4th of September 1972 Mass murderer Robert Gregory Bowers is born in Baldwin, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 49 years ago Sunday 4th of September 1977 Elizabeth Mary Wolf is stabbed to death by serial killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death in Davis, California, United States.

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(x) 44 years ago Saturday 4th of September 1982 21-year-old Mass murderer Humberto De La Torre torches his uncle's hotel after a dispute in Dorothy Mae Hotel, 821 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, California, United States. Nineteen people including an unborn baby and its mother perished as the fire roared through the 50-year-old three-story structure. Thirty-six other people were injured and within 10 days six of them had died. At least nine victims were relatives of Humberto de La Torre. His uncle Mateo survived. Humberto de la Torre was arrested the following December in Texas, pleaded guilty to 25 counts of murder and in 1985 was sentenced to 625 years in prison.

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(-) 37 years ago Monday 4th of September 1989 Writer Georges Joseph Christian Simenon known for creating the fictional detective Jules Maigret dies of natural causes at the age of 86 in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.

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2 years ago The Eyes had it Wednesday 4th of September 2024 When the box for an artwork almost becomes and artwork in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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