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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.

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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Blurb Reason
World Animal Day refimprove
Feast day of St. Francis of Assisi (Catholicism); refimprove section
1779American 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
1777American 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
1830Belgian 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
1963Flora, one of the wettest and deadliest hurricanes in history, made landfall in Cuba, after having previously struck Tobago and Hispaniola. expansion
1967Hassanal Bolkiah became Sultan of Brunei upon the abdication of his father, Omar Ali Saifuddien III. unreferenced section (Ancestry), refimprove section
1976British 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
1993Russian Constitutional Crisis: Tanks bombarded the White House in Moscow while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rallied outside. refimprove
1997Armored car driver David Ghantt stole $17.3 million from his employer, one of the largest cash robberies in U.S. history. refimprove
2001Siberia 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

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  • 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
Seal of Otto IV
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