Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 4

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  Battle of Germantown
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  Manuel II of Portugal
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  InterCity 125 train
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  James Wilson
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  El Al Flight 1862 aftermath
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  Replica of Sputnik 1
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  Painting of the Battle of the Narrow Seas by Andries van Eertvelt
• caption=East Island before (top) and after the hurricane (bottom)
  caption=East Island before (top) and after the hurricane (bottom)

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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|Omar Template:Nowrap]].	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 Template:Nowrap 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
2018 – East Island (pictured), a critical wildlife habitat in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, was largely destroyed by Hurricane Walaka.	Date not cited in article.
Jenny Twitchell Kempton |b|1835|	Date not cited in article.

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.
• 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.
• 1918 – First World War: The Japanese merhant ship Hirano Maru was sunk by a German submarine in the Celtic Sea with the loss of 291 lives.
• 1941 – Willie Gillis, one of Norman Rockwell's trademark characters, debuted on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
• 1943 – World War II: Allied forces executed Operation Leader, an air raid against German shipping near Bodø, Norway.
• Born/died: | Gabriele Paleotti |b|1522| Anna of Tyrol |b|1585| Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton |d|1581| 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| Maurice Wilder-Neligan |b|1882| Lucy Tayiah Eads |b|1888| Carl Josef Bayer |d|1904| Henrietta Lacks |d|1951| Zinha Vaz |b|1952| Christoph Waltz |b|1956| Graham Chapman |d|1989| Dakota Johnson |b|1989| Jeonghan |b|1995|

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 Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1448 – Skanderbeg and Gjergj Arianiti signed a peace treaty to end the Albanian–Venetian War.
• 1633 – Smolensk War: Forces from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth broke the Russian siege of Smolensk (depicted).
• 1862 – American Civil War: After a naval battle in Galveston Harbor, Texas, Confederate commanders negotiated the surrender of the city to Union forces.
• 1925 – Great Syrian Revolt: Rebels led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji captured the city of Hama from the French Mandate of Syria.
• 1927 – Gutzon Borglum and approximately 400 workers began sculpting Mount Rushmore.