Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 4
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This is a list of selected August 4 anniversaries that appears on 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 may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will 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 how well they are written, not based on how much their subjects are important or significant. Only 5–6 events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed.
Also, to maintain some variety of topics on the Main Page as a whole, an event is not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled August 4, 2010 featured article or the August 4, 2010 featured picture.
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- 1578 – King Sebastian I (pictured) disappeared at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir near Ksar-el-Kebir, Morocco, leading to a dynastic crisis in Portugal.
- 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: A combined Anglo-Dutch fleet under the command of George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles captured Gibraltar from Spain.
- 1892 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden were found murdered in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA, an incident that became a cause célèbre and entered into pop culture and folklore.
- 1964 – The second of two U.S. Navy destroyers was reportedly attacked by North Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking the U.S. Congress to pass a resolution giving President Lyndon Johnson authorization for the use of military force in Southeast Asia.
- 1964 – The bodies of three American civil rights activists were found by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
- 1984 – Exactly a year after he came to power in the Republic of Upper Volta through a military coup, President Thomas Sankara changed its name to Burkina Faso.
