Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 4

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September 4: Father's Day in Australia and New Zealand (2005).

476: Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed.
1260: Florence and Siena fought in the Battle of Montaperti, as part of the conflict between the Guelphs and Ghibellines.
1870: The French Third Republic was declared, as the Second Empire collapsed.
1886: After years of fighting against the U.S. Army and the armed forces of Mexico, Geronimo of the Chiricahua Apache surrendered in Arizona.
1972: Mark Spitz won his seventh swimming gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, becoming the first Olympian to win seven gold medals.