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Trivia Facts For this day in History: September 4, 2010
Birthdays:| 1824 | Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer | | 1892 | Darius Milhaud, French composer and pianist | | 1932 | Dinsdale Lansden, Stage and TV actor | | 1934 | Sir Nicholas Jackson, Composer | | 1937 | Dawn Fraser, Australian Olympic gold medal swimmer | | 1949 | Tom Watson, American golfer & winner of the British Open | | 1953 | Michael Stean, British chess grandmaster | | 1965 | Kurtis Mantronix, Of the Pop group 'Mantronix' |
Events:| 1907 | Edvard Grieg, the Norwegian composer, died | | 1909 | The recently formed Boy Scouts held their first parade at Crystal Palace | | 1912 | The first accident to happen on the 'London Underground' injured 22 people when two trains collided on the Piccadilly line | | 1934 | At Nuremburg over 750,000 supporters attended the Nazi Party conference | | 1940 | The 'Battle of Britain' began, after Hitler threatened to raze British cities to the ground after British bombers attacked Munich | | 1972 | The American swimmer Mark Spitz, won a record 7th gold medal at the Munich games |
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