September 4

September 4 is the 247th day of the year, 118 days remaining

1781 - Los Angeles, California, is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of the Little Portion) by 44 Spanish settlers.

1957 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.

Birthday

1824 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer
Bruckner's Symphonies are all in four movements, starting with a modified sonata form allegro, a slow movement, a scherzo in 3/4 time, and a modified sonata form allegro finale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Bruckner

1917 - Henry Ford II, American industrialist
commonly known as "HF2" and "Hank the Deuce" – was the son of Edsel Ford and grandson of Henry Ford
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford_II

1927 - John McCarthy, American computer scientist
He was responsible for the coining of the term "Artificial Intelligence" in his 1955 proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Conference and is the inventor of the Lisp programming language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_%28computer_scien...

1981 - Beyoncé Knowles, American singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyonc%C3%A9_Knowles