04 September 1781: Los Angeles founded

04 September 1888: George Eastman patented his roll-film camera and registered the Kodak trademark.

04 September 1957: Nine black students attempted to enter Little Rock’s Central High School but were blocked by the National Guard. Arkansas governor Orval Faubus had summoned the federal troops.

04 September 1972: U. S. swimmer Mark Spitz won a record seventh gold medal at the Munich Summer Olympics.

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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain

As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.
- François-René de Chateaubriand

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
- W. Somerset Maugham

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