More things that happened on this day in the year; 476 – Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself "King of Italy", thus ending the Western Roman Empire. 1774 – New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook. 1781 – Los Angeles, California, is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) by 44 Spanish settlers. 1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film. 1923 – Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah. 1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race. 1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference. 1957 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel. 1972 – Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games. 1975 – The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed. The agreement stated that the conflicts between the countries "shall not be resolved by military force but by peaceful means." 1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University. 2001 – Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:53:41 +0000
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