Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 4, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Flashback: Sept. 4, 1933
1933: Louisiana pilot Jimmie Wedell — in his No. 44 racer built by Wedell-Williams Air Service — broke the world’s land plane speed record during a 3-kilometer event at the International Air Races in Glenview. Wedell’s speed topped out at 305.33 mph, which helped him win the race.
Florence Klingensmith crashed during the race and was killed.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 95 degrees (1983)
- Low temperature: 45 degrees (1997)
- Precipitation: 2.95 inches (1894)
- Snowfall: None
1966: Demonstrators marched from Chicago to Cicero to protest the treatment of Black college student Jerome Huey. Huey went to Cicero on May 25, 1966, to interview at a freight loading company. On his way back to the bus stop that evening, according to Tribune archives, four white teens attacked him with a baseball bat as he walked alone near 25th Street and Laramie Avenue. Huey died in a hospital four days later.
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The marchers — about 250 in number — were showered with racial epithets, bricks, bottles and firecrackers by an angry crowd. Police officers and 2,000 members of the National Guard with rifles and bayonets controlled the hostile crowd. The marchers proceeded south to 25th Street and then west to Laramie, where they held a prayer vigil on the spot where Huey was attacked. His parents, Isaac and Ruth Huey (both now deceased), joined them.
In 1967, three of the four teens charged with murder were convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to nine to 20 years in prison. Each served less than five years, public records showed.
1974: Ald. Frank Kuta was convicted in 1974 of accepting a $1,500 bribe on a zoning case and was sentenced to six months in prison.
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In 1981, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that Kuta had, “by clear and convincing evidence, established his rehabilitation” and could get his law license back — as soon as he gave the city $1,500 for the bribe money he had extorted. He paid the city and opened a law office on the Southwest Side.
1986: Prince Charles (now King Charles III) started in Chicago on a 12-day tour of the United States — without his wife Princess Diana and sons. He visited Marshall Field’s State Street store, Whitney Young Magnet High School and participated in a polo match at the Oak Brook Polo Club.
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Early in the match, a collision at the north end of the field — which was roughly nine football fields in size — left England’s star player Andrew Seavill pinned beneath his horse and the prince laid out beside him.
An ambulance and a paramedic rushed to the scene, and the player’s horse was hoisted off his leg. After a five-minute pause, both the player and the prince appeared to be OK. And a few moments later, the horse rose to a standing ovation.
“I liked the part when he fell, the best,” said Chicago-based political satirist Aaron Freeman. “It’s not often you see people who won the genetic lottery embarrassing themselves in public.”
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