Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 4

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 * 1781 – Los Angeles was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles by forty-four Spanish settlers.
 * 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.


 * 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.
 * 1912 – The Albanian revolt ended when the Ottoman government agreed to meet most of the rebels' demands.
 * 1934 – Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full.
 * 1957 – Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African-American students from attending Little Rock Central High School.
 * 2007 – Three terrorists suspected to be part of al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after planning attacks on Frankfurt Airport and Ramstein Air Base.
 * Born/died: | Pope Boniface I |d|422| Anna Anachoutlou |d|1342| Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon |d|1458|Stephen Whitney |b|1776| Franjo Krežma |b|1862| Denis Tomlinson |b|1910|  Émile Bouchard |b|1919| Bert Olmstead |b|1926|Sasha |b|1969| Beyoncé |b|1981|  Zerkaa |b|1992| Steve Irwin |d|2006| Syed Mustafa Siraj |d|2012| Joan Rivers |d|2014| Lloyd Cadena |d|2020

September 4


 * 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.
 * 1977 – The Golden Dragon massacre took place in Chinatown, San Francisco, leaving five dead and spurring police to end Chinese gang violence in the city.
 * 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.