September 4 in history

On Spetmeber 4:

1863 the brig Delaware was wrecked soon after leaving Napier.

1884 Britian ended its policy of transporting criminals to Australia.

1937 Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser was born.

1956 the IBM 305 RAMAC computer was introduced. It was the first commercial computer to use magnetic disk storage.

IBM 305 at U.S. Army Red River Arsenal
Foreground: Two 350 disk drives. Background:380 console and 305 processing unit.

1988 1998 Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin,

Sourced from NZ History Online and Wikipedia.