Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 4
This is a list of selected September 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.
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Immigrant's Day in Argentina | refimprove |
| 929 – At the Battle of Lenzen, the Saxon army killed or captured all of the Slavs defending the fortified stronghold of Lenzen. | single source |
| 1260 – Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines: Sienese Ghibellines defeated the Florentine Guelphs at the Battle of Montaperti thanks to an act of treachery, which was later immortalised in Dante's Divine Comedy. | refimprove sections |
| 1479 – The Catholic Monarchs of Castile and Aragon signed the Treaty of Alcáçovas with Afonso V of Portugal and his son, John to end the War of the Castilian Succession. | refimprove |
| 1774 – British explorer James Cook became the first European to sight the island of New Caledonia. | refimprove section |
| 1888 – American inventor George Eastman registered the trademark "Kodak" after receiving a patent for his roll film camera. | recentism, refimprove section |
| 1917 – American suffragist Pauline Adams and 12 others were arrested for attempting to "flaunt their banners" in front of President Woodrow Wilson's reviewing stand before a Selective Service parade in Washington, D.C. | POTD for 2021 |
| 1949 – Anti-communist riots erupted after a concert by Paul Robeson near Peekskill, New York, U.S. | refimprove section |
| 1957 – Amid considerable publicity, the Ford Motor Company introduced the Edsel, which became synonymous with failure. | refimprove section |
| 1964 – The Forth Road Bridge crossing the Firth of Forth in Scotland opened to traffic. | incomplete |
| 1971 – Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashed into a mountain near Juneau, Alaska, U.S., killing all 111 people on board. | cleanup required |
| 1972 – Mark Spitz won his seventh swimming gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics, setting new world records with each victory in each event. | date not in article |
| 1984 – The Progressive Conservative Party led by Brian Mulroney won the largest majority government by total number of seats in Canadian history during the federal election. | unreferenced section |
| 1998 – Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in Menlo Park, California, to promote the web search engine that they developed as Stanford University students. | better summary needed |
| Paul Harvey |b|1918 | lead too short |
| Sushilkumar Shinde |b|1941| | multiple issues with referencing |
Eligible
- 476 – Germanic leader Odoacer captured Ravenna and deposed Emperor Romulus Augustus, marking the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1781 – Los Angeles was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles by forty-four Spanish settlers.
- 1812 – War of 1812: A coalition of Native American tribes began the siege of Fort Harrison in Terre Haute, Indiana, by setting the fort on fire.
- 1886 – After more than 25 years of fighting against the United States Army and the armed forces of Mexico, Geronimo of the Chiricahua Apache surrendered at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
- 1912 – The Albanian revolt ended when the Ottoman government agreed to meet most of the rebels' demands.
- 1957 – Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African-American students from attending Little Rock Central High School.
- 2007 – Three terrorists suspected to be part of al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after planning attacks on Frankfurt Airport and Ramstein Air Base.
- 2010 – A 7.1 Mw earthquake struck New Zealand's South Island (damage pictured), causing up to NZ$40 billion in damages.
- Born/died: | Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon |d|1458|Stephen Whitney |b|1776| Franjo Krežma |b|1862| Denis Tomlinson |b|1910| Émile Bouchard |b|1919| Bert Olmstead |b|1926|Sasha |b|1969| Steve Irwin |d|2006| Syed Mustafa Siraj |d|2012| Joan Rivers |d|2014| Lloyd Cadena |d|2020
Pedro II of Brazil and Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies
- 1800 – French Revolutionary Wars: Facing starvation and a death rate of 100 soldiers a day, the French garrison in Malta surrendered to British forces, ending a two-year siege.
- 1839 – First Opium War: British vessels opened fire on Chinese war junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community on the Kowloon Peninsula.
- 1843 – Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies and Pedro II of Brazil (both pictured) were married in an extravagant wedding at the Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro.
- 1934 – Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full.
- 1977 – A gang-related shooting took place in Chinatown, San Francisco, leaving five dead and spurring police to end Chinese gang violence in the city.
- Pope Boniface I (d. 422)
- Anna Anachoutlou (d. 1342)
- Beyoncé (b. 1981)
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