September 4 This Day in History

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

1778 City of Amsterdam signs trade agreement with American rebels

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

1807 Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat between New York and Albany

1833 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old by the NY Sun)

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

1882 In its 1st large-scale test, Thomas Edison's light bulb is used to light NY's Pearl Street Station

1886 Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war

1888 George Eastman patents the first roll-film camera and registers the brand name “Kodak”

1940 CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB

1951 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by US President Harry Truman

1957 Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to prevent 9 black students from entering a Little Rock's Central High School

1972 "The Price is Right" - US's longest running games show debuts on CBS

1998 Google is formally incorporated by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University

2002 Kelly Clarkson is crowned the winner of the first series of "American Idol" TV singing competition series

2016 Mother Teresa canonized by Pope Francis in a ceremony at the Vatican