Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 4
This is a list of selected October 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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Painting of the Battle of the Narrow Seas by Andries van Eertvelt
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| World Animal Day | refimprove |
| Feast day of St. Francis of Assisi (Catholicism); | refimprove section |
| 1779 – American Revolution: James Wilson and his colleagues were forced to defend themselves after a mob, angered by his successful legal defense of 23 people from exile, converged on his house, resulting in six deaths. | Unreferenced parts, tone issues in one section |
| Independence Day in Lesotho (1966) | refimprove section |
| 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces were victorious at the Battle of Germantown, ensuring that Philadelphia, the capital of the revolutionary government of the Thirteen Colonies, would remain in British hands throughout the winter of 1777–78. | refimprove |
| 1824 – Mexico enacted its first constitution, defining the nation as a federal republic. | refimprove |
| 1830 – Belgian Revolution: The provisional government in Brussels declared the creation of the independent and neutral state of Belgium, in revolt against the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. | unreferenced sections |
| 1895 – The first U.S. Open golf tournament was held on a nine-hole course at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island. | refimprove section |
| 1958 – The current Constitution of France was signed into law, establishing the French Fifth Republic. | Unreferenced section |
| 1963 – Flora, one of the wettest and deadliest hurricanes in history, made landfall in Cuba, after having previously struck Tobago and Hispaniola. | expansion |
| 1967 – Hassanal Bolkiah became Sultan of Brunei upon the abdication of his father, Omar Ali Saifuddien III. | unreferenced section (Ancestry), refimprove section |
| 1976 – British Rail's InterCity 125 service, the world's fastest diesel-powered train, began operations on the Western Region. | refimprove |
| 1985 – Software developer Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation to support the free software movement. | cleanup required, expansion |
| 1992 – Israeli cargo plane El Al Flight 1862 crashed into residential buildings in Amsterdam's Bijlmermeer after taking off from Schiphol Airport and losing two engines, killing all 4 people on board and 39 on the ground. | refimprove section |
| 1993 – Russian Constitutional Crisis: Tanks bombarded the White House in Moscow while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rallied outside. | refimprove |
| 1997 – Armored car driver David Ghantt stole $17.3 million from his employer, one of the largest cash robberies in U.S. history. | refimprove |
| 2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashed into the Black Sea, killing all 78 people on board. | refimprove section |
| 2010 – A waste-reservoir dam in Ajka, Hungary, collapsed, freeing one million cubic metres (35 million cu ft) of red mud that flooded nearby communities and killed ten people. | outdated |
Eligible
- 1363 – Red Turban Rebellions: The rebel leader Zhu Yuanzhang won the Battle of Lake Poyang by deploying ships intentionally set aflame when the emperor tried to escape.
- 1448 – Skanderbeg and Gjergj Arianiti sign a peace treaty to end the Albanian–Venetian War.
- 1633 – Forces from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth break the Russian siege of Smolensk.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Union forces capture Galveston, Texas.
- 1876 – Texas A&M University opened as the first public institution of higher education in the U.S. state.
- 1917 – First World War: The Allies devastated the German defence at the Battle of Broodseinde, prompting a crisis among German commanders and causing a severe loss of morale in the 4th Army.
- 1925 – Great Syrian Revolt: Rebels led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji captured the city of Hama from the French Mandate of Syria.
- 1943 – World War II: Allied forces execute Operation Leader, an air raid against German shipping near Bodø, Norway.
- 1941 – Willie Gillis, one of Norman Rockwell's trademark characters, debuted on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
- Born/died: | Gabriele Paleotti |b|1522| Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton |d|1581| Anna of Tyrol |b|1585| John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll |d|1743| Amaro Pargo |d|1747| Joseph A. Lopez |b|1779| Charles Pearson |b|1793| Townsend Harris |b|1804| Jenny Twitchell Kempton |b|1835| Lucy Tayiah Eads |b|1888| Carl Josef Bayer |d|1904| Mary Two-Axe Earley |b|1911| Zinha Vaz |b|1952| Jack Warhop |d|1960| Graham Chapman |d|1989
Notes
- GNU is featured on September 27, so Free Software Foundation should not appear in the same year
October 4: Cinnamon Roll Day in Sweden and Finland
Seal of Otto IV
- 1209 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (seal pictured), was crowned.
- 1918 – An ammunition plant in Sayreville, New Jersey, U.S., exploded, killing around 100 people and destroying more than 300 buildings.
- 1957 – The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
- 2003 – A suicide bomber killed 21 people, including a two-month-old baby, and injured 60 others inside a restaurant in Haifa, Israel.
- Charles Pearson (b. 1793)
- Maurice Wilder-Neligan (b. 1882)
- Henrietta Lacks (d. 1951)
- Gunpei Yokoi (d. 1997)