WikiRug:Selected anniversaries/September 4
This is a list of selected September 4 anniversaries that appears on 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 soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Little Rock Central High School, Arkansas, US
- LTC Marion Johnson turns students away.jpg
Lt. Col. Marion Johnson turns back a group of African Americans seeking to enter Central High School
- GoyathlayCropped.jpg
Geronimo
Forth Road Bridge
A building at the Googleplex, Google's headquarters
George Eastman in 1917
Downtown Los Angeles
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Immigrant's Day in Argentina | refimprove |
| 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 |
| 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. | multiple issues |
| 1964 – The Forth Road Bridge crossing the Firth of Forth in Scotland opened to traffic. | incomplete section |
| 1971 – Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashed into a mountain near Juneau, Alaska, U.S., killing all 111 people on board. | lots of CN tags in crucial areas |
| 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. | lead too short |
| Steve Irwin (d. 2006) | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 476 – Germanic leader Odoacer captured Ravenna and deposed Emperor Romulus Augustus, bringing about the fall of the Western Roman Empire,
- 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 immortalised in Dante's Divine Comedy.
- 1781 – Los Angeles was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles by 44 Spanish settlers.
- 1800 – French Revolutionary Wars: Facing starvation and a death rate of 100 soldiers a day due to a two-year siege, the French garrison in Valletta, Malta, surrendered to the British.
- 1839 – First Opium War: British vessels open 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.
- 1888 – American inventor George Eastman registered the trademark "Kodak" after receiving a patent for his roll film camera.
- 1957 – Arkansas 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 a part of Al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after planning attacks on both Frankfurt Airport and Ramstein Air Base.
- 2010 – A 7.1 Mw earthquake struck the South Island of New Zealand (damage pictured), causing up to NZ$3.5 billion in damages.
- Born/died: · Sushilkumar Shinde (b. 1941)
- 929 – At the Battle of Lenzen, the Saxon army killed or captured all of the Slavs defending the fortified stronghold of Lenzen.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1912 – The Albanian revolt of 1912 came to an end when the Ottoman government agreed to meet most of the rebels' demands.
- 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.
Anna of Trebizond (d. 1342) · Paul Harvey (b. 1918) · Syed Mustafa Siraj (d. 2012)