December 3, 2024

This Day in History

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Shimla, Sept. 4 Keekli Bureau

This Day in History

2016

Mother Teresa, founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity and winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace, was canonized by Pope Francis I.

2014

American entertainer Joan Rivers—who first gained fame in the 1960s as a nightclub and television comic known for the catchphrase “Can we talk?” and who later critiqued celebrities’ wardrobes—died in New York City.

2006

Australian wildlife conservationist and television personality Steve Irwin, who achieved worldwide fame as the exuberant and risk-taking host of The Crocodile Hunter (1992–2006) TV series and related documentaries, was killed by a venomous bull stingray.

2002

American singer Kelly Clarkson became the first winner of the reality television series American Idol.

1998

The American search engine company Google Inc. was formally established as founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page filed incorporation papers.

1989

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Air Force launched the last Titan III rocket.

1972

American swimmer Mark Spitz won his seventh gold medal during the Munich Olympic Games, the first person ever to do so in a single Olympics.

1957

The Ford Motor Company introduced the Edsel automobile, which was perhaps its most notable failure.

1908

Novelist and short-story writer Richard Wright, among the first African American writers to protest white treatment of blacks, was born.

1870

Napoleon III, who ruled France first as president (1850–52) and then as emperor (1852–70), was deposed and the Third Republic proclaimed.

1864

John Hunt Morgan, the Confederate guerrilla leader of “Morgan’s Raiders,” was killed by Federal troops.

1768

French author and diplomat François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand, who was one of the country’s first Romantic writers and France’s preeminent literary figure in the early 19th century, was born.

925

King Athelstan of the West Saxons became the first king to rule all of England.

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