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Notable anniversaries in history for today: September 4
- 200th: 1824 - Birth of Phoebe Cary in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; American poet (Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Jennifer Salt in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Sisters, Soap, Wedding Party).
- 80th: 1944 - The Belgian port of Antwerp falls to the British 2nd Army.
- 70th: 1954 - First passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed.
- 70th: 1954 - Peter B Cortese of the US achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 pounds; 22 pounds, over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania.
- 60th: 1964 - Forth Road Bridge opens in England over the "Firth of Forth".
- 60th: 1964 - NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1).
- 40th: 1984 - The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, led by Brian Mulroney, wins 211 seats in the House of Commons, forming the largest majority government in Canadian history.
- 40th: 1984 - The Nicaraguan general elections are held, Sandinista Front is the winner.
- 30th: 1994 - Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan opens. All international services are transferred from Itami to Kansai.
- 30th: 1994 - The Fox TV network airs the first episode of the Disney TV show Hardball.
- 15th: 2009 - British author (Billy Liar) and playwright (Whistle Down the Wind, Mr and Mrs Nobody, Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell) Keith Waterhouse dies at the age of 80.
- 5th: 2019 - Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announces the official withdrawal of the controversial Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019, and setting up of an independent study to probe social and economic inequality within the territory.
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