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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.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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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
1260Wars 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
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
1949Anti-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
1971Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashed into a mountain near Juneau, Alaska, U.S., killing all 111 people on board. cleanup required
1972Mark 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
1998Larry 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

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September 4

Damage from the Canterbury earthquake in Christchurch
Damage from the Canterbury earthquake in Christchurch
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