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.
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 or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 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 |
| 1781 – Los Angeles was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula by 44 Spanish settlers. | LA: miscellaneous info; Pueblo: unreferenced 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 |
| 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 |
Eligible
- 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.
- 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.
- 1888 – American inventor George Eastman registered the trademark "Kodak" after receiving a patent for his roll film camera.
- 1912 – The Albanian revolt of 1912 came to an end when the Ottoman government agreed to meet the rebels' demands.
- 1949 – Anti-communist riots erupted after a concert by Paul Robeson near Peekskill, New York, U.S.
- 1971 – Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashed into a mountain near Juneau, Alaska, U.S., killing all 111 people on board.
- 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.
- 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: Paul Harvey (b. 1918)
September 4: Labour Day in Canada and Labor Day in the United States (2017)
- 476 – Germanic leader Odoacer captured Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, and deposed Emperor Romulus Augustus.
- 1774 – British explorer James Cook became the first European to sight the island of New Caledonia.
- 1843 – Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies married Pedro II of Brazil (both pictured) at a state ceremony.
- 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.
Anna of Trebizond (d. 1342) · Sushilkumar Shinde (b. 1941) · Steve Irwin (d. 2006)