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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King Manuel II of Portugal
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Battle of Germantown
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| World Animal Day | stub |
| 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 1777–1778. | unreferenced section |
| 1883 – The Orient Express began operations. | Tagged with {{Refimprove}} |
| 1910 – Manuel II, the last King of Portugal, fled to Gibraltar when a revolution erupted in Lisbon and his palace was shelled. The Portuguese First Republic was proclaimed the next day. | needs more footnotes, 5 October 1910 revolution is a stub |
| 1993 – Russian Constitutional Crisis: Tanks bombarded the White House in Moscow while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rallied outside. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashed into the Black Sea, killing all 78 people on board. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 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.
- 1841 – Willie Gillis, one of Norman Rockwell's trademark characters, debuted on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
- 1876 – Texas A&M University opened as the first public institution of higher education in the U.S. state of Texas.
- 1918 – An ammunition plant in Sayreville, New Jersey, US, exploded killing over 100 people and destroying more than 300 buildings.
- 1958 – The new constitution establishing the French Fifth Republic, France's current political regime, was introduced.
- 1963 – Flora, one of the wettest and deadliest hurricanes in history, made landfall in Cuba, after having previously struck Tobago and Hispaniola.
- 1985 – Software developer Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation to support the free software movement.
October 4: Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi (Catholicism); Independence Day in Lesotho (1966)
- 1824 – Mexico enacted its first constitution, defining the nation as a federal republic.
- 1957 – Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1 (replica pictured), the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, was launched by an R-7 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR.
- 1967 – Hassanal Bolkiah became Sultan of Brunei upon the abdication of his father, Omar Ali Saifuddien III.
- 1997 – Armored car driver David Ghantt stole $17.3 million from his employer, one of the largest cash robberies in U.S. history.