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1781 — 1781 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1781 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1781, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Incumbent Independent governor William Greene won re-election as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election are unknown.
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1781 — Capture of HMS St. Fermin
The Capture of HMS St. Fermin was a naval engagement that took place off Málaga on 4 April 1781, during the American Revolutionary War. Spanish xebecs San Antonio and San Luis captured the sloop-of-war HMS St. Fermin.
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1785 — 1785 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
A gubernatorial election was held in Massachusetts on April 4, 1785. James Bowdoin, the former president of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, received more votes than any of his rivals—Thomas Cushing, the incumbent acting governor, Benjamin Lincoln, the former United States secretary of war, and Oliver Prescott, the judge of the probate court for Middlesex County—but no candidate received a majority of the votes cast.
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1787 — 1787 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1787 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was an election held on April 4, 1787, to elect the governor of Rhode Island. John Collins beat William Bradford with 72.24% of the vote.
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1791 — 1791 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
A gubernatorial election was held in Massachusetts on April 4, 1791. John Hancock, the incumbent governor, was re-elected against scattering opposition.
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1792 — 1792 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1792 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1792, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Incumbent Anti-Federalist governor Arthur Fenner won re-election as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election are unknown.
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1798 — 1798 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1798 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1798, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Incumbent Democratic-Republican governor Arthur Fenner won re-election as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election are unknown.
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1804 — 1804 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1804 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1804, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Incumbent Democratic-Republican governor Arthur Fenner won re-election as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election are unknown.
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1808 — Action of 4 April 1808
The Action of 4 April 1808 was a naval engagement off the coast off Rota near Cadiz, Spain where Royal Naval frigates Mercury, Alceste and Grasshopper intercepted a large Spanish convoy protected by twenty gunboats and a train of batteries close to shore.
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1808 — 1808 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
The 1808 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1808. Incumbent Democratic-Republican Governor James Sullivan won re-election to a second term, defeating Federalist nominee Christopher Gore.
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1810 — 1810 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1810 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1810, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Incumbent Democratic-Republican governor James Fenner won re-election as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election are unknown.
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1814 — 1814 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
The 1814 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1814, in order to elect the governor of Massachusetts. Incumbent Federalist Governor Caleb Strong won re-election against Democratic-Republican candidate Samuel Dexter.
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1817 — Battle of Curapalihue
The Battle of Curapalihue (4 April 1817) fought in Chile, was a minor encounter between South American rebels and Spanish royalists, during the South American wars of independence. The result was a defeat for the royalists.
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1832 — 1832 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1832 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1832, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Incumbent National Republican governor Lemuel H. Arnold won a plurality of the vote against former Democratic-Republican governor James Fenner and incumbent Anti-Masonic Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives William Sprague III.
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1836 — 1836 Connecticut gubernatorial election
The 1836 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1836. Incumbent governor and Democratic nominee Henry W. Edwards was re-elected, defeating former governor, senator and Whig nominee Gideon Tomlinson with 53.93% of the vote.
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1842 — 1842 Connecticut gubernatorial election
The 1842 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1842. Former Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives and Democratic nominee Chauncey Fitch Cleveland was elected, defeating incumbent governor and Whig nominee William W. Ellsworth with 49.94% of the vote. Cleveland won a plurality of the vote, but fell just short of a majority, by 107 votes.
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1849 — 1849 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1849 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1849. Incumbent Whig governor Elisha Harris did not run for re-election. Whig nominee Henry B. Anthony defeated Democratic nominee Adnah Sackett and Free Soil nominee Edward Harris.
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1853 — 1853 Connecticut gubernatorial election
The 1853 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1853. Incumbent governor and Democratic Party nominee Thomas H. Seymour defeated former state legislator and Whig nominee Henry Dutton and former state legislator and Free Soil nominee Francis Gillette with 51.01% of the vote. Seymour would resign on October 13, 1853, to become Minister to Russia, and Lieutenant Governor Charles H.
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1853 — 1853 Costa Rican general election
General elections were held in Costa Rica on 4 April 1853 to elect a president for a six-year term. Incumbent president Juan Rafael Mora Porras was re-elected to a full term with 91.2% of electoral votes. According to historian Iván Molina, from this election onward and for the following four decades, electoral processes played a largely secondary role in the selection of the president, serving primarily a symbolic function of legitimization.
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1855 — 1855 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1855 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1855, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Incumbent Whig governor William W. Hoppin won re-election against Democratic nominee Americus V. Potter.
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1859 — 1859 Connecticut gubernatorial election
The 1859 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1859. It was a rematch of the 1858 Connecticut gubernatorial election. Incumbent governor and Republican nominee William Alfred Buckingham defeated former congressman and Democratic nominee James T. Pratt with 51.19% of the vote.
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1860 — 1860 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
A gubernatorial election was held in Rhode Island on April 4, 1860. The Democratic and Conservative candidate William Sprague IV defeated the Republican former member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from Providence Seth Padelford. At the Republican state convention, Padelford, a Radical Republican, defeated the incumbent governor Thomas G. Turner. Padelford's nomination precipitated a movement by Conservative Republicans, former Whigs, and Democrats to jointly nominate Sprague as the conservative fusion candidate.
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1862 — 1862 Preston by-election
The 1862 Preston by-election was held on 4 April 1862, after the incumbent Conservative MP R. A. Cross resigned to enter a private banking business in Warrington. The by-election was won by the Conservative candidate, Thomas Hesketh. Hesketh was related to two previous MPs for the constituency, both also named Thomas Hesketh, one from the 16th century and one from the 18th.
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1864 — 1864 Connecticut gubernatorial election
The 1864 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1864, and the first of two gubernatorial elections in which the Republicans adopted the National Union Party name, as the national party had done during the 1864 presidential election. Incumbent governor and National Union nominee William Alfred Buckingham defeated Democratic nominee Origen S. Seymour with 53.65% of the vote.
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1866 — 1866 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1866 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1866, in order to elect the governor of Rhode Island. Republican nominee and former Union Army Major General Ambrose Burnside defeated Democratic nominee Lyman Pierce.
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1870 — 1870 Connecticut gubernatorial election
The 1870 Connecticut gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1870. It was the third consecutive contest between the same two major party nominees. Former governor and Democratic nominee James E. English defeated incumbent governor and Republican nominee Marshall Jewell with 50.48% of the vote.
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1877 — 1877 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1877 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1877. Republican nominee Charles C. Van Zandt defeated Democratic nominee Jerothmul B. Barnaby with 50.93% of the vote.
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1883 — 1883 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1883 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1883. Republican nominee Augustus O. Bourn defeated Democratic nominee William Sprague IV with 54.48% of the vote.
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1885 — 1885 FA Cup final
The 1885 FA Cup final was a football match between Blackburn Rovers and Queen's Park on 4 April 1885 at Kennington Oval in London. It was the fourteenth final of the world's oldest football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (known in the modern era as the FA Cup). Blackburn had won the Cup in the previous season while Queen's Park were competing in their second final with the previous final being previous year.
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1886 — Spanish general election, 1886
General elections to the Cortes Generales were held in Spain on 4 April 1886. At stake were all 395 seats in the Congress of Deputies.
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1888 — 1888 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1888 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1888. Republican nominee Royal C. Taft defeated Democratic incumbent John W. Davis with 52.33% of the vote.
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1894 — 1894 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1894 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1894. Incumbent Republican Daniel Russell Brown defeated Democratic nominee David S. Baker with 53.15% of the vote.
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1894 — Foyot bombing
The Foyot bombing was a bomb attack carried out on 4 April 1894, in Paris against the Foyot restaurant, located at 33 rue de Tournon, fifty meters from the French Senate building. This attack, which took place during the Ère des attentats (1892–1894), injured four people, including the anarchists Laurent Tailhade and Julia Miahle, when a bomb hidden in a flower pot exploded.
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1900 — 1900 Rhode Island gubernatorial election
The 1900 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on April 4, 1900. Republican nominee William Gregory defeated Democratic nominee Nathan W. Littlefield with 54.33% of the vote.
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1903 — Columbus, Ohio mayoral election, 1903
The Columbus mayoral election of 1903 was the 54th mayoral election in Columbus, Ohio. It was held on Saturday, April 4, 1903. Democratic party incumbent mayor John N. Hinkle was defeated by Republican party nominee Robert H. Jeffrey.
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1904 — Two destructive earthquakes strike Bulgaria's Kresna region
Two strong earthquakes struck the Kresna region of Bulgaria on April 4, roughly twenty minutes apart. The first shock occurred in the morning in the Struma River valley between Kresna and Krupnik; a larger shock followed. The article assigns the pair magnitudes of 6.9 and 7.2 on the surface-wave scale, and reports more than 200 deaths. Simitli and Krupnik were destroyed, while Dzhumaya, Bansko and Razlog suffered major damage. The disaster is recorded as a doublet earthquake rather than two unrelated anniversaries. Its epicentres and effects place this event in present-day southwestern Bulgaria.
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1905 — 1905 Kangra earthquake
The 1905 Kangra earthquake occurred in the Kangra Valley and the Kangra district of the Himachal Pradesh, in India on 4 April 1905. The earthquake measured 7.8 on the surface-wave magnitude scale and killed more than 20,000 people. Apart from this, most buildings in the towns of Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala were destroyed. The earthquake also had a widespread impact in Jammu and Kashmir particularly in the densely populated Kashmir valley. A total of 7,000 to 8,000 people were killed in Jammu and Kashmir with 4,000 to 5,000 deaths occurring in the Kashmir valley.
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1911 — 1911 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The 1911 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on Tuesday, April 4, 1911, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. Incumbent justice Aad J. Vinje (who had been appointed the previous year) was elected without opposition.
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1916 — 1916 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The 1916 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on Tuesday, April 4, 1916, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. Circuit court judge Franz C. Eschweiler prevailed in a five-candidate race, winning a plurality of the vote. Incumbent first-term justice William H. Timlin did not seek re-election, and would ultimately die soon after the election (shortly before his term would have expired).
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1922 — 1922 Wisconsin Supreme Court special election
The 1922 Wisconsin Supreme Court special election was a special election held on Tuesday, April 4, 1922, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a partial term. The election took place after the death of John B. Winslow. Incumbent (appointed) justice Burr W. Jones won election.
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1938 — Battle of the Segre
The Battle of the Segre is the collective name of a series of battles that took place along the Segre River between 4 April 1938 and 3 January 1939 during the Spanish Civil War, after the Nationalist Faction had broken the lines of the Spanish Republican Army in the Aragon Offensive. Although seldom mentioned in historical works, it was one of the most protracted battles of the Civil War.
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1949 — Twelve countries sign the North Atlantic Treaty
Representatives of twelve European and North American countries signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, D.C., establishing the framework for NATO. The agreement placed collective defence at the centre of a new transatlantic alliance during the early Cold War. Under Article 5, an armed attack against one member in the treaty's defined area would be considered an attack against all, with each ally taking the action it deemed necessary. The treaty also committed members to peaceful dispute resolution and consultation when their security was threatened. This anniversary marks the signing of the founding agreement, rather than a later accession or military operation.
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1950 — 1950 Wisconsin Supreme Court special election
The 1950 Wisconsin Supreme Court special election was a special election held on Tuesday, April 4, 1950, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Incumbent justice John E. Martin (appointed in 1948 to fill the vacancy created by the death on the bench of Chester A. Fowler) won election, defeating challenger Marshall Peterson.
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1961 — 1961 Dallas mayoral election
The 1961 Dallas mayoral election was held on April 4, 1961.
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1961 — 1961 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The 1961 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on Tuesday, April 4, 1961 to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. The April general election was preceded by a nonpartisan primary election on March 7, 1961. Circuit Court judge Myron L. Gordon won election to succeed incumbent justice John E. Martin (who did not seek re-election). He defeated Stewart G.
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1964 — 1964 Western Samoan general election
General elections were held in Western Samoa on 4 April 1964, the first since independence in 1962. All candidates ran as independents. Following the elections, Fiamē Mataʻafa Faumuina Mulinuʻu II remained prime minister.
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1967 — 1967 Chicago mayoral election
The Chicago mayoral election of 1967 was held on April 4, 1967. The election saw Richard J. Daley being elected to a fourth term as mayor. Daley's main opponent was Republican nominee John L. Waner, who he defeated by a landslide 48% margin. The election was preceded by primary elections held on February 28, 1967 to determine the nominees of both the Democratic Party and Republican Party.
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1967 — 1967 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The 1967 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on Tuesday, April 4, 1967, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. It was preceded by a primary election on March 7, 1967. In the election, Robert W. Hansen defeated incumbent chief justice George R. Currie. The election was the first instance in the state's history in which a chief justice of the Supreme Court was unseated in an election.
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1968 — Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. that evening. He was a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience. James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested on June 8, 1968, in London at Heathrow Airport, extradited to the United States, and charged with the crime.
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1976 — 1976 Baden-Württemberg state election
The 1976 Baden-Württemberg state election was held on 4 April 1976 to elect the members of the 6th Landtag of Baden-Württemberg. The incumbent Christian Democratic Union (CDU) government under Minister-President Hans Filbinger was re-elected, retaining its majority.
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1977 — Southern Airways Flight 242 crashes in Georgia
Southern Airways Flight 242 made a forced landing on a highway near New Hope, Georgia, on April 4 after a severe thunderstorm disabled both engines. Hail damaged the aircraft as the crew tried to fly toward Atlanta, and the jet struck roadside structures during its attempted landing. Sixty-three people aboard the aircraft and nine people on the ground died; twenty-two aboard survived. The National Transportation Safety Board concluded that water and hail ingestion, combined with thrust lever movement, caused the engines' loss of power. The crash remains the deadliest aviation accident in Georgia and led to a detailed investigation of weather information and flight decisions.
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1989 — 1989 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The 1989 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on April 4, 1989, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. Incumbent justice Shirley Abrahamson was re-elected over Ralph Adam Fine. The campaign was described to be a "heated race".
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1991 — Neath by-election, 1991
The Neath by-election, 1991 was a by-election held on 4 April 1991 for the British House of Commons constituency of Neath in Wales. It was won by the Labour Party candidate Peter Hain.
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1993 — WrestleMania IX
WrestleMania IX was a 1993 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the ninth annual WrestleMania and took place on April 4, 1993, at Caesars Palace in Paradise, Nevada in the Las Vegas area. It was the first WrestleMania event held outdoors. WrestleMania IX was built around two main storylines.
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1995 — 1995 Brown County, Wisconsin Executive election
The 1995 Brown County, Wisconsin Executive election took place on April 4, 1995. Incumbent County Executive Tom Cuene ran for re-election to a third term. He was challenged by County Supervisor Steve Lasee. Because Cuene and Lasee were the only two candidates to file, the primary election was cancelled and the candidates proceeded to the general election.
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1995 — 1995 Wisconsin elections
The 1995 Wisconsin Spring Election was held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin on April 4, 1995.
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1997 — CMLL International Gran Prix (1997)
The CMLL International Gran Prix (1997) was a lucha libre, or professional wrestling, tournament produced and scripted by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; "World Wrestling Council" in Spanish) which took place on April 4, 1997 in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico, CMLL's main venue. The 1997 International Gran Prix was the fourth time CMLL has held an International Gran Prix tournament since 1994.
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2000 — 2000 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The 2000 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on April 4, 2000, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. Incumbent justice Diane S. Sykes (who had been appointed in 1999) was re-elected, defeating challenger Louis B. Butler by a wide margin.
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2000 — 2000 Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary
The 2000 Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary took place on April 4, 2000, as one of two primaries on the same day in the Democratic primaries for the 2000 United States presidential election. The Pennsylvania primary was a closed primary, with the state awarding 191 delegates, of whom 186 were pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the primary results.
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2000 — 2000 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary
The 2000 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary took place on April 4, 2000 as part of the Democratic Party primaries for the 2000 presidential election. The Wisconsin primary was an open primary, with the state awarding 93 delegates to the 2000 Democratic National Convention, of which 77 were pledged delegates allocated on the basis of the results of the primary.
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2001 — Moldovan presidential election, 2001
An indirect presidential election was held in Moldova on 4 April 2001.
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2004 — Siege of Sadr City
The Siege of Sadr City was a blockade of the Shi'a district of northeastern Baghdad carried out by US and Iraqi government forces in an attempt to destroy the main power base of the insurgent Mahdi Army in Baghdad. The siege began on 4 April 2004 – later dubbed "Black Sunday" – with an uprising against the Coalition Provisional Authority following the government banning of a newspaper published by Muqtada Al-Sadr's Sadrist Movement.
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2005 — Moldovan presidential election, 2005
An indirect presidential election was held in Moldova on 4 April 2005.
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2007 — 2007 Kansas City mayoral election
The 2007 Kansas City mayoral election was held March 2 and April 4, 2007, to elect the mayor of Kansas City, Missouri. It saw the election of Mark Funkhouser.
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2009 — Take No Prisoners (2009)
Take No Prisoners (2009) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Ring of Honor. It took place on April 4, 2009 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, and aired on pay-per-view on June 12, 2009. There were seven matches that took place on the card.
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2011 — Georgian Airways Flight 834
On 4 April 2011, Georgian Airways Flight 834, a Bombardier CRJ100 passenger jet of Georgian Airways operating a domestic flight from Kisangani to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), crashed while attempting to land at Kinshasa Airport. The aircraft, which was chartered by the United Nations, was trying to land during a thunderstorm. Of the 33 people on board, only one person survived.
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2012 — M23 rebellion (2012–2013)
The First M23 rebellion was an armed conflict in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, that occurred between the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group and Congolese government forces between 4 April 2012 and 7 November 2013. It ended when a peace agreement was made among eleven African nations, and the M23 troops surrendered in Uganda.
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2017 — 2017 Wisconsin elections
The 2017 Wisconsin Spring Election was held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin on April 4, 2017. The top of the ballot was the election for state Superintendent of Public Instruction. There was also an uncontested election for Wisconsin Supreme Court, three uncontested elections for Wisconsin Court of Appeals, and several other nonpartisan local and judicial elections. There were also a number of local referendums for school funding.
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2019 — Rise of the Renegades (2019)
Rise of the Renegades (2019) was a professional wrestling supercard event produced by Major League Wrestling (MLW), which took place on April 4, 2019, at the Melrose Ballroom in Queens, New York City, New York. The event was a television taping for MLW Fusion, with Battle Riot II airing as a live Fusion special the following day.
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2019 — Impact Wrestling United We Stand
United We Stand was a professional wrestling internet pay-per-view (iPPV) event produced by Impact Wrestling that took place on April 4, 2019 in Rahway, New Jersey. It was the second event in the 2019 Impact Wrestling pay-per-view schedule. Wrestlers from Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) and Lucha Underground – with whom Impact has partnerships with – as well as stars from Major League Wrestling (MLW), Dragon Gate and Wrestle Pro also appeared on the card.
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2019 — Western Libya campaign
The Western Libya campaign was a military campaign initiated on 4 April 2019 by the Operation Flood of Dignity (Arabic: عملية طوفان الكرامة) of the Libyan National Army (LNA), which represents the Libyan House of Representatives, to capture the western region of Libya and eventually the capital Tripoli held by the United Nations Security Council-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA).
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2020 — Supercard of Honor XIV
Supercard of Honor XIV was a scheduled professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by American promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), that would have taken place on Saturday, April 4, 2020, at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland, Florida. Wrestlers from New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) with whom ROH had partnerships, were scheduled to appear at the event.
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2021 — 2021 Kosovan presidential election
The parliament of Kosovo held indirect elections for president of Kosovo on 3 and 4 April 2021. The elections successfully concluded after three rounds, with Vjosa Osmani winning 71 votes out of a total possible 120. Three political parties boycotted the vote. Nasuf Bejta, also a member of Guxo, the political party Osmani founded, was the only other candidate who received a vote during any of the other rounds.
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2023 — 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. Milwaukee County circuit judge Janet Protasiewicz defeated former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Daniel Kelly, effectively flipping the ideological balance of the court from a conservative to liberal majority. Incumbent justice Patience D.
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2023 — 2023 Brown County, Wisconsin Executive election
The 2023 Brown County, Wisconsin Executive election took place on April 4, 2023. Incumbent County Executive Troy Streckenbach ran for re-election to a fourth term. He faced no opposition and was re-elected unopposed.
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2023 — 2023 Denver mayoral election
The 2023 Denver mayoral election was held on April 4, 2023, to elect the mayor of Denver, Colorado, with a runoff held on June 6. The election was officially nonpartisan and was held concurrently with elections for the Denver City Council, as well as city auditor and city clerk and recorder. Incumbent mayor Michael Hancock was term-limited and could not seek a fourth term in office.
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2023 — 2023 Wisconsin elections
The 2023 Wisconsin Spring Election was held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin on April 4, 2023. The featured race at the top of the ticket was for an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which became the most expensive judicial election in history. Several other nonpartisan local and judicial offices were also decided on the April 4 ballot, including mayoral elections in some of Wisconsin's larger cities—Green Bay, Madison, and Racine.
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2024 — 2024 Belarusian Council of the Republic election
The indirect election to the Council of the Republic of Belarus were held on 4 April 2024.
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2024 — 2024 Chabahar and Rask clashes
In the southeastern border province of Sistan and Balochistan, an attack on an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) headquarters happened on the night of 4 April 2024. At least 16 Iranian security force members were killed in this attack. The clashes occurred in the towns of Chabahar, Rask and Sarbaz. Jaish ul-Adl, a Sunni armed group, was involved in the attack and lost at least 16 members during the clashes.
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2024 — PFL 1 (2024)
The PFL 1 mixed martial arts event for the 2024 season of the Professional Fighters League was held on April 4, 2024, at the Boeing Center at Tech Port in San Antonio, Texas, United States. This marked the first regular-season event of the tournament and included fights in the Women's Flyweight and Heavyweight divisions.
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