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|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 |
| 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| | lead too short |
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.
- 1839 – First Opium War: British vessels opened fire on Chinese war junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community in China.
- 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 of 1912 came to an end when the Ottoman government agreed to meet most of the rebels' demands.
- 1957 – Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African American students from attending Little Rock Central High School.
- 2010 – A 7.1 Mw earthquake struck the South Island of New Zealand, causing up to NZ$40 billion in damages.
- Born/died: | Stephen Whitney |b|1776| Denis Tomlinson |b|1910| Bert Olmstead |b|1926| Sasha |b|1969| Beyoncé |b|1981| Syed Mustafa Siraj |d|2012| Joan Rivers |d|2014
- 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.
- 1843 – Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies and Pedro II of Brazil (both pictured) held an extravagant wedding at a cathedral in Rio de Janeiro.
- 1914 – World War I: The German army began an assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
- 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.
- 2007 – Three terrorists suspected to be part of al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after planning attacks on Frankfurt Airport and Ramstein Air Base.
- Anna of Trebizond (d. 1342)
- Émile Bouchard (b. 1919)
- Steve Irwin (d. 2006)