Events
October
4
610
– Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa
at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine
Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
1227 – Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
1363 – End of the Battle of Lake Poyang;
the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang
defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang,
in one of the largest naval battles in history.
1511 – Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand
II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic
of Venice against France.
1535 – The first complete English-language
Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed,
with translations by William Tyndale and
Miles Coverdale.
1582 – Pope Gregory XIII implements the
Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal,
and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed
directly by October 15.
1636 – The Swedish Army defeats the armies
of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the
Battle of Wittstock.
1693 – Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese
troops are defeated by the French.
1725 – Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
1777 – Battle of Germantown: Troops under
George Washington are repelled by British
troops under Sir William Howe.
1779 – The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
1795 – Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to
national prominence with a "Whiff of
Grapeshot", using cannon to suppress
armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening
the French Legislature (National Convention).
1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution
and becomes a federal republic.
1830 – Creation of the Kingdom of Belgium
after separation from the Netherlands.
1853 – Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares
war on Russia.
1876 – Texas A&M University opens as
the Agricultural and Mechanical College
of Texas, becoming the first public institution
of higher education in Texas.
1883 – First run of the Orient Express.
1883 – First meeting of the Boys' Brigade
in Glasgow, Scotland.
1895 – The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship
administered by the United States Golf Association
is played at the Newport Country Club in
Newport, Rhode Island.
1918 – An explosion kills more than 100
and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company
Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey.
Fires and explosions continue for three
days forcing massive evacuations and spreading
ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which
were still being found as of 2007.
1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount
Rushmore.
1940 – Meeting between Adolf Hitler and
Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character
debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening
Post.
1943 – World War II: U.S. captures Solomon
Islands.
1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I,
the first artificial satellite to orbit
the Earth.
1957 – Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro
Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
1957 – Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS.
1957 – Sputnik 1 is launched by the Soviet
Union.
1958 – Fifth Republic of France is established.
1960 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed
L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike
on takeoff from Boston's Logan International
Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board.
1963 – Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba
and Haiti.
1965 – Becoming the first Pope to ever visit
the United States of America and the Western
hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New
York.
1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from
the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
1967 – Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei
abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
1974 – Founding of the New Democracy party
in Greece.
1976 – Official launch of the Intercity
125 High Speed Train (HST).
1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed
record of 633.468 mph (1,019 km/h), driving
Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
1985 – Free Software Foundation is founded
in Massachusetts, United States.
1988 – U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is
indicted for fraud.
1991 – The Protocol on Environmental Protection
to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords ends
a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
1992 – El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing
747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings
in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on
the ground.
1993 – Russian Constitutional Crisis: In
Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a
government building that housed the Russian
parliament, while demonstrators against
President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.
1997 – The second largest cash robbery in
U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North
Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company.
A Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation
eventually results in 24 convictions and
the recovery of approximately 95% of the
$17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
2001 – NATO confirms invocation of Article
5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir
Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the
Black Sea after being struck by an errant
Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
2003 – Maxim restaurant suicide bombing
in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and
Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize
for private spaceflight, by being the first
private craft to fly into space.
2010 – The Ajka plant accident in western
Hungary releases about a million cubic metres
(35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina
sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured,
and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severely
contaminated.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Amun
Francis of Assisi
Petronius of Bologna.
October 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Cinnamon Roll Day or kanelbullens dag (Sweden)
Day of Peace and Reconciliation (Mozambique)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Lesotho from the United Kingdom in 1966.
The beginning of World Space Week (International)
World Animal Day (International)
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