Reuters
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on September 4:
1907 - Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg died in Bergen.
1948 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, who had reigned since 1890, abdicated in favour of her daughter Juliana.
1965 - Franco-German theologian and philosopher Albert Schweitzer died in Gabon where he had set up a hospital in 1913. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.
1975 - Egypt and Israel signed an agreement in Geneva providing for Israeli withdrawal from Sinai and establishment of a new U.N. buffer zone.
1989 - Belgian writer Georges Simenon, creator of the detective character Inspector Maigret, died.
1995 - The Fourth World Conference on Women, one of the biggest U.N. gatherings in history, began in China's Great Hall of the People with a U.N. declaration that sexual equality was the last great project of the 20th century.
1998 - The U.N. tribunal on Rwanda sentenced former Prime Minister Jean Kambanda to life imprisonment for his role in the 1994 genocide.
2001 - South Korea's cabinet resigned after a parliamentary no-confidence vote against the minister in charge of North Korea policy.
2006 - Steve Irwin, a quirky Australian naturalist who won worldwide acclaim, was killed by a stingray barb through the chest while diving off Australia's northeast coast. He was 44.
2007 - U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett, who made record-breaking solo flights around the world by plane and balloon, went missing after taking off in a small plane. He was declared legally dead by a Chicago court five months later.
2015 - Bristol hosts world's first recycled bio fuel pyrotechnics show.
