Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 4
This is a list of selected April 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, featured list or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Qingming Festival in the Chinese calendar; Hansik in South Korea; (2024);}} | both articles refimprove |
| Independence Day in Senegal (1960); | outdated, expand |
| 1721 – Robert Walpole took office as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons, becoming what would later be recognised as the first British Prime Minister. | lots of {{cn}} tags |
| 1973 – A C-141, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, flew the last mission of Operation Homecoming to return American prisoners of war from Vietnam. | refimprove |
| 1975 – Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. | section tagged for cleanup |
| 1976 – Norodom Sihanouk abdicated from the role of leader of Cambodia and was arrested by the Khmer Rouge. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1287 – Wareru created the Hanthawaddy Kingdom in today's Lower Burma and declared himself king following the collapse of the Pagan Empire.
- 1660 – Charles II of England issued the Declaration of Breda, describing his conditions for the Restoration of the crown of England.
- 1841 – William Henry Harrison became the first U.S. President to die in office, 32 days into his term, sparking a brief constitutional crisis regarding questions of presidential succession that were left unanswered by the U.S. Constitution.
- 1873 – The Kennel Club, the oldest kennel club in the world, was founded in the United Kingdom.
- 1945 – World War II: The U.S. Third Army captured the German city of Kassel after three days of fighting.
- 1949 – Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO, an organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
- 1969 – Surgeons Denton Cooley and Domingo Liotta implanted the first total artificial heart.
- 1973 – The World Trade Center in New York City was officially dedicated, about a year after the second of the building complex's twin towers was completed.
- 1975 – Vietnam War: On a mission to evacuate children from South Vietnam, a U.S. Air Force plane crash landed at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, killing 153.
- 1979 – Deposed Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was controversially executed for authorising the murder of a political opponent.
- 1988 – Governor of Arizona Evan Mecham was removed from office after being convicted in his impeachment trial.
- 2002 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels signed a peace treaty, agreeing to follow the 1994 Lusaka Protocol and ending the decades-long Angolan Civil War.
April 4: Children's Day in Hong Kong and Taiwan
- 1768 – Philip Astley set up the first modern amphitheatre (pictured) for the display of horse riding tricks in Lambeth, London, the origin of the modern circus.
- 1796 – French naturalist Georges Cuvier delivered a lecture at the National Museum of Natural History on living and fossil remains of elephants and related species, founding the science of paleontology.
- 1859 – Bryant's Minstrels premiered the popular American song "Dixie" in New York City as part of their blackface minstrel show.
- 1968 – American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1990 – The current flag of Hong Kong was adopted for post-colonial use during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress.