Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 4

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  Damage from the Canterbury earthquake in Christchurch
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  Geronimo
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  Forth Road Bridge
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  A building at the Googleplex, Google's headquarters
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  George Eastman
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  Downtown Los Angeles
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  Little Rock Central High School

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Blurb	Reason
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
1260 – Wars 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|Template:Nowrap 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
1781 – Los Angeles (downtown pictured) was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles by forty-four Spanish settlers.	"Expansion needed" orange banner
1812 – War of 1812: A coalition of Native American tribes began the siege of Fort Harrison in Terre Haute, Indiana, by setting the fort on fire.	Too much uncited
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
1949 – Anti-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
1971 – Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashed into a mountain near Juneau, Alaska, U.S., killing all 111 people on board.	cleanup required
1972 – Mark 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
1998 – Larry 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

Eligible

• 1839 – First Opium War: British vessels opened fire on Chinese war junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community on the Kowloon Peninsula.
• 1886 – After more than 25 years of fighting against the United States Army and the armed forces of Mexico, Geronimo of the Chiricahua Apache surrendered at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
• 1920 – Peasants in and around Križ began a rebellion to protest economic and conscription policies enacted by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
• 1957 – Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African-American students from attending Little Rock Central High School (pictured).
• 2007 – Three terrorists suspected to be part of al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after planning attacks on Frankfurt Airport and Ramstein Air Base.

• 476 – Germanic leader Odoacer captured Ravenna and deposed Emperor Romulus Augustus, marking the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
• 1800 – French Revolutionary Wars: Facing starvation and a death rate of 100 soldiers per day, the French garrison in Malta surrendered to British forces, ending a two-year siege.
• 1843 – The state wedding of Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies and Emperor Pedro II of Brazil took place at the Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro.
• 1934 – Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full.
• 1955 – A white U.S. soldier raped and murdered a five-year-old local girl in Kadena, Okinawa.
• 2010 – A magnitude-7.1 earthquake (damage pictured) struck the Canterbury Region of New Zealand, causing two deaths and up to NZ$40 billion in damages.
• Born/died: | Pope Boniface I |d|422| Maria of Castile |d|1458| Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester |d|1588| Franjo Krežma |b|1862| Denis Tomlinson |b|1910| Émile Bouchard |b|1919| Konstantin Kalser |b|1920| Sasha |b|1969| Yoani Sánchez |b|1975| Hildur Guðnadóttir |b|1982| Zerkaa |b|1992| Joan Rivers |d|2014| Lloyd Cadena |d|2020| Giorgio Armani |d|2025|

Stephen Whitney |b|1776| Beyoncé |b|1981| Steve Irwin |d|2006| Template:Divhide

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• 1666 – The most destructive damage from the Great Fire of London (depicted) occurred.
• 1912 – The Albanian revolt ended when the Ottoman government agreed to meet most of the rebels' demands.
• 1956 – The final novel of the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, was released.
• 1977 – The Golden Dragon massacre occurred in Chinatown, San Francisco, leaving five dead and spurring police to end Chinese gang violence in the city.
• 1995 – Three African-American U.S. sea servicemen stationed at Camp Hansen in Okinawa raped a 12-year-old local girl, after kidnapping, beating, and torturing her.