Pictures from a fourth day of protests in LA

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Here are some of the latest pictures from a fourth day of protests in Los Angeles.

My initial thought was that the use of an indefinite article here was incorrect. We all know which day was the fourth day.
Then I started to see why this could make sense. The post was one of many possible slices of report on what happened on that day, giving we live in the era of social media. By using the indefinite article, the writer essentially says they're giving the reader a snapshot of that day.
Perhaps this is just incorrect and I'm reading too much into it?
I'd like to hear your opinions.
 
No, I think you've got it, more or less. The key is the idea of possible worlds. There can be imagined multiple possible fourth days and this fourth day, the real one, is just one of them.
 

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