Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 4
This is a list of selected October 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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InterCity 125 train
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| World Animal Day | stub |
| Independence Day in Lesotho (1966) | refimprove section |
| 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces were victorious at the Battle of Germantown, ensuring that Philadelphia, the capital of the revolutionary government of the Thirteen Colonies, would remain in British hands throughout the winter of 1777–78. | unreferenced section |
| 1824 – Mexico enacted its first constitution, defining the nation as a federal republic. | multiple issues |
| 1830 – Belgian Revolution: The provisional government in Brussels declared the creation of the independent and neutral state of Belgium, in revolt against the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. | empty section |
| 1967 – Hassanal Bolkiah became Sultan of Brunei upon the abdication of his father, Omar Ali Saifuddien III. | unreferenced section, refimprove section |
| 1985 – Software developer Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation to support the free software movement. | requires expansion |
| 1997 – Armored car driver David Ghantt stole $17.3 million from his employer, one of the largest cash robberies in U.S. history. | needs more footnotes |
| 2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashed into the Black Sea, killing all 78 people on board. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1895 – The first U.S. Open golf tournament was held on a nine-hole course at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
- 1918 – An ammunition plant in Sayreville, New Jersey, US, exploded killing over 100 people and destroying more than 300 buildings.
- 1941 – Willie Gillis, one of Norman Rockwell's trademark characters, debuted on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
- 1958 – The new constitution establishing the French Fifth Republic, France's current political regime, was introduced.
- 1963 – Flora, one of the wettest and deadliest hurricanes in history, made landfall in Cuba, after having previously struck Tobago and Hispaniola.
- 1976 – British Rail's InterCity 125 service, the world's fastest diesel-powered train, began operations on the Western Region.
- 1993 – Russian Constitutional Crisis: Tanks bombarded the White House in Moscow while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rallied outside.
- 2003 – A suicide bomber killed 21 people and injured more than 50 others inside the Maxim restaurant in Haifa, Israel.
Notes
- GNU is featured on September 27, so Free Software Foundation should not appear in the same year
October 4: Feast day of St. Francis of Assisi (Catholicism); Shemini Atzeret begins at sunset (Judaism, 2015)
- 1779 – American Revolution: James Wilson (pictured) and his colleagues were forced to defend themselves after a mob, angered by his successful legal defense of 23 people from exile, converged on his house, resulting in six deaths.
- 1876 – Texas A&M University opened as the first public institution of higher education in the U.S. state of Texas.
- 1917 – First World War: The British devastated the German defence in the Battle of Broodseinde, which prompted a crisis among the German commanders and caused a severe loss of morale in the German Fourth Army.
- 1957 – Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, was launched by an R-7 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR.
- 2010 – The dam holding a waste reservoir in western Hungary collapsed, freeing 1 million cubic metres (1,300,000 cu yd) of red mud, which flooded nearby communities and killed at least nine people.