Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 4
This is a list of selected April 4 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (requires undeletion)
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ineligible
| Blurb | Why ineligible |
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| 1721 – Robert Walpole took office as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons, becoming what would later be recognised as the first British Prime Minister. | needs more footnotes |
| 1969 – Surgeons Denton Cooley and Domingo Liotta implanted the first total artificial heart. | Tagged for cleanup |
| 1976 – Norodom Sihanouk abdicated from the role of leader of Cambodia and was arrested by the Khmer Rouge. | refimprove |
| 1979 – Deposed Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan was executed. | POV |
Eligible
- 1081 – The Komnenian dynasty came to full power when Alexios I Komnenos became Byzantine Emperor.
- 1841 – William Henry Harrison became the first U.S. President to die in office, 32 days into his term, sparking a brief constitutional crisis regarding questions about presidential succession that were left unanswered by theU.S. Constitution.
- 1850 – Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality, five months before California achieved U.S. statehood.
- 1973 – The World Trade Center in New York City was officially dedicated, about a year after the second of the building complex's twin towers were completed.
- 1975 – Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.
- 1975 – Vietnam War: On a mission to evacuate children from South Vietnam, a U.S. Air Force plane crash landed at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, killing 153.
- 1988 – Governor of Arizona Evan Mecham was removed from office after being convicted in his impeachment trial.
April 4: Independence Day in Senegal (1960); Cheti Chand, Gudi Padwa and Ugadi in various parts of India (2011); Qingming Festival in the Chinese calendar; Hansik in South Korea; (2024); Children's Day in Taiwan and Hong Kong
- 1660 – Charles II of England issued the Declaration of Breda, describing his conditions for the Restoration of the crown of England.
- 1859 – Bryant's Minstrels premiered the popular American song "Dixie" in New York City as part of their blackface minstrel show.
- 1949 – Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO, an organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
- 1968 – American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (pictured) was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 2002 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels signed a peace treaty, agreeing to follow the 1994 Lusaka Protocol and ending the decades-long Angolan Civil War.