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2018-09-04

Top reads and historical moments for this date. 4 min read

Colin Kaepernick

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Colin Rand Kaepernick is an American civil rights activist and former professional football quarterback. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons with the San Francisco 49ers. In 2016, he gained national attention for kneeling during the national anthem at the start of NFL games in protest of pol…

Oskar Schlemmer

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Machine Gun Kelly (rapper)

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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On This Day

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2010

2010_Canterbury_earthquake

A magnitude-7.1 earthquake (damage pictured) struck the Canterbury Region of New Zealand, causing two deaths and up to NZ$40 billion in damages.

2007

Al-Qaeda

Three terrorists suspected to be part of al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after planning attacks on Frankfurt Airport and Ramstein Air Base.

1995

Camp_Hansen

Three African-American U.S. sea servicemen stationed at Camp Hansen in Okinawa raped a 12-year-old local girl, after kidnapping, beating, and torturing her.

1977

Golden_Dragon_massacre

The Golden Dragon massacre occurred in Chinatown, San Francisco, leaving five dead and spurring police to end Chinese gang violence in the city.

1957

Orval_Faubus

Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African-American students from attending Little Rock Central High School (pictured).

1956

The_Chronicles_of_Narnia

The final novel of the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, was released.

1955

Yumiko-chan_incident

A white U.S. soldier raped and murdered a five-year-old local girl in Kadena, Okinawa.

1934

Evelyn_Waugh

Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full.

1920

Križ,_Zagreb_County

Peasants in and around Križ began a rebellion to protest economic and conscription policies enacted by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.