Sunday, September 4, 2011

This Day in History: September 4

2000 - The annual Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon raised a record $54,610,289.


2000 - French investigators announced that a stray piece of metal had led to the fatal crash of the supersonic Concorde the previous July. The metal piece had possible fallen off a Continental Airlines plane that had taken off on the same runway four minutes earlier. The metal strip had slashed a tire on the Concorde, sending pieces of debris flying up and into the fuel tank of the jetliner, setting of the fatal fire which caused the plane to crash.

2001 - A fire destroyed virtually all of the merchandise and most of the infrastructure of the permanent home of the Straw Market on Nassau’s Bay Street.

2002 - The Oakland Athletics won their AL-record 20th straight game. The A’s gave up an 11-run lead during the game and then won the game a Scott Hatteberg home run in the bottom of the ninth inning.

2002 - Texas cocktail waitress and aspiring pop star Kelly Clarkson was voted the first American Idol by millions of TV fans.

2003 - The U.S. House of Representatives agreed to a 2.2 percent pay raise for Congress, boosting lawmakers’ annual salaries to about $158,000 the following year.

2003 - 22-year-old Keegan Reilly became the first parapalegic climber to reach the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji during one of the ‘Strong Arm Expeditions’.

2004 - Hurricane Frances ripped apart roofs, shattered windows and flooded neighborhoods as it raged through the Bahamas. Two people were killed.

2005 - In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Coast Guard asked people in the New Orleans area to hang brightly colored or white sheets, towels or anything else that might help draw attention to those needing assistance.

2006 - Steve Irwin, the 44-year-old Australian TV environmentalist, was killed by a blow to the chest from a stingray while he was filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef. Irwin’s Crocodile Hunter show, in which he appeared in his trademark khaki shorts and shirt, debuted in 1992 and was shown around the world on the Discovery cable network.

2007 - A Eurostar train took some 30 minutes off the record for quickest rail journey between Paris and London. Using a new high-speed track, the train covered the the 306-mile (492-kilometer) journey from the Gare du Nord in Paris to Saint Pancras in just two hours, three minutes and 39 seconds from station to station.

2008 - John McCain claimed the GOP presidential nomination at the Republican convention in St. Paul, MN. McCain portrayed himself as a maverick warrior and an agent of change.

2009 - New movies in U.S. theatres: All About Steve, starring Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church, Bradley Cooper, Ken Jeong, DJ Qualls, Katy Mixon and Howard Hesseman; Amreeka, with Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat and Jenna Kawar; Carriers, with Sequoyah Adams-Rice, Josh Berry, Jeremy Burnell, Brighid Fleming, Jason E. Hill, Tim Janis and Dylan Kenin; Extract, starring Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Clifton Collins Jr., Mila Kunis, Kristen Wiig, Dustin Milligan and Beth Grant; and Gamer, starring Gerard Butler, Kyra Sedgwick, Michael C. Hall, Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, John Leguizamo, Amber Valletta, Terry Crews, Logan Lerman, Johnny Whitworth and Zoe Bell.

2009 - The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan reported that it had fired eight security guards because of allegations of lewd behavior and sexual misconduct in their living quarters. The management team of the private contractor that provided the guards was also being replaced.

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