📜 This Day in History
September 4
476Germanic leader Odoacer captured Ravenna and deposed Emperor Romulus Augustus, marking the fall of the Western Roman Empire.- 1813Future US President Andrew Jackson was shot and severely injured in a tavern brawl with future US Senator Thomas Hart Benton.
- 1886After more than 25 years of fighting against the United States Army and the armed forces of Mexico, Geronimo of the Chiricahua Apache surrendered at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
- 1934Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full.
- 1977The Golden Dragon massacre occurred in Chinatown, San Francisco, United States, leaving five people dead and spurring police to end Chinese gang violence in the city.
- 2010A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck the Canterbury Region of New Zealand, causing two deaths and up to NZ$40 billion in damages.
