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Thursday, September 4, 2008

On this date in

1781 Los Angeles was founded.

1886 Geronimo, who fought the United States for 25 years for encroaching on Indian land, surrendered.

1888 George Eastman patented his roll-film camera under the registered name Kodak.

1908 Director Edward Dmytryk, one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten, was born.

1951 President Harry Truman addressed the nation from a conference in San Francisco in the first live coast-to-coast television broadcast.

1957 Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus summoned the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Little Rock's Central High School; Ford Motor Company introduced the Edsel.

1972 Mark Spitz became the first person to win seven gold medals in a single Olympics.

2002 Kelly Clarkson was named the first "American Idol."

2006 Steve Irwin, popularly known as the "Crocodile Hunter," died from a stingray's barb that pierced his chest.

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