Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 4
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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 |
| 1781 – Los Angeles (downtown pictured) was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles by forty-four Spanish settlers. | "Expansion needed" orange banner |
| 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. | Too much uncited |
| 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 | unreferenced passages |
| Sushilkumar Shinde |b|1941| | multiple issues with referencing |
| Awesome Kong |b|1977 | >25% CN tags |
Eligible
- 476 – Germanic leader Odoacer captured Ravenna and deposed Emperor Romulus Augustus, marking the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1800 – French Revolutionary Wars: Facing starvation and a death rate of 100 soldiers per day, the French garrison in Malta surrendered to British forces, ending a two-year siege.
- 1843 – The state wedding of Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies and Emperor Pedro II of Brazil took place at the Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro.
- 1912 – The Albanian revolt ended when the Ottoman government agreed to meet most of the rebels' demands.
- 1934 – Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full.
- 1977 – The Golden Dragon massacre occurred in Chinatown, San Francisco, leaving five dead and spurring police to end Chinese gang violence in the city.
- 2010 – A magnitude-7.1 earthquake (damage pictured) struck the Canterbury Region of New Zealand, causing two deaths and up to NZ$40 billion in damages.
- Born/died: | Pope Boniface I |d|422| Anna Anachoutlou |d|1342| Maria of Castile |d|1458| Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester |d|1588| Franjo Krežma |b|1862| Denis Tomlinson |b|1910| Émile Bouchard |b|1919| Konstantin Kalser |b|1920| Bert Olmstead |b|1926| Sasha |b|1969| Yoani Sánchez |b|1975| David Littleproud |b|1976| Hildur Guðnadóttir |b|1982| Zerkaa |b|1992| Joan Rivers |d|2014| Lloyd Cadena |d|2020
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- 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.
- 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.
- 1920 – Peasants in and around Križ began a rebellion to protest economic and conscription policies enacted by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
- 1957 – Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African-American students from attending Little Rock Central High School (pictured).
- 2007 – Three terrorists suspected to be part of al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after planning attacks on Frankfurt Airport and Ramstein Air Base.
- Stephen Whitney (b. 1776)
- Beyoncé (b. 1981)
- Steve Irwin (d. 2006)
- Syed Mustafa Siraj (d. 2012)
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