Once Upon A Time – Sept. 4 – 1781 – Los Angeles Is Founded By 44 Spanish-Speaking Mestizos In The Bahia De Las Fumas

476 Romulus Augustulus, last Western Roman Emperor, abdicates after forces led by Odoacer invade Rome. Traditional End of the Western Roman Empire.

1609 Navigator Henry Hudson is the first European to discover island of Manhattan [or Sep 11]

1781 Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish speaking mestizos in the Bahia de las Fumas (Bay of Smokes)

1862 General Lee begins the Maryland Campaign invading the North with 50,000 Confederate troops (US Civil war)

Historical Events Today
Today in Film & TV
1936 RKO Radio Pictures releases “Swing Time”, directed by George Stevens, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

Today in Music
1965 The Beatles’ single “Help!” goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks

Today in Sport
1972 US 4 x 100m medley relay team of Mike Stamm, Tom Bruce, Mark Spitz & Jerry Heidenreich sets world record 3:48.16 to win gold at the Munich Olympics; Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 Olympic gold medals at a single Games

MORE FACTS…
1888 George Eastman patents the first roll-film camera & registers “Kodak”

2012 Carpet that can help prevent falls among the elderly by warning them of unusual footsteps is developed

Famous Weddings
1834 American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (28) weds Helen Eliza Benson (22), in Boston, Massachusetts

1930 Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (21) weds Vivien Burey at First African Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1988 Actor Kevin Bacon marries actress Kyra Sedgwick