October October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in Leap years). There are 88 days remaining.
Events
- 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, otherthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
- 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, skipping over 10 days.
- 1777 - Battle of Germantown - Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe
- 1824 - Mexico becomes a republic
- 1830 - Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands
- 1883 - First run of the Orient Express
- 1895 - The first U.S. Open Mens' Golf Championship run by the United States Golf Association was played on a nine-hole course in Newport, Rhode Island.
- 1910 - Portugal becomes a republic. King Manuel II flees to Britain.
- 1957 - Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth
- 1958 - Fifth Republic of France established
- 1966 - Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
- 1988 - Jim Bakker indicted for fraud
- 1991 - The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was opened for signature.
- 1992 - An El Al Boeing 747-200F crashes into 2 apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 38 on the ground. See Bijlmerramp
- 1993 - Doom press-release version is made available to journalists for review.
- 1993 - At the climax of the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders army tanks to begin the storming of the Russian parliament building.
- 1998 - Leafie Mason of Hughes Spring, Texas is murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz. She is Angel's second victim in his second incident.
- 2001 - A Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. 78 people are killed.
- 2003 - Maxim restaurant suicide bombing: A female Palestinian suicide bomber, Hanadi Jaradat, exploded inside the Maxim restaurant in Haifa. 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, were killed, and 51 others were wounded.
- 2004 - SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight
Births
- 1550 - King Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611)
- 1814 - Jean-Francois Millet, French painter (d. 1875)
- 1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States (d. 1893)
- 1858 - Michael Pupin, telephone pioneer, Pulitzer Prize winning author
- 1861 - Frederic Remington, painter (d. 1909)
- 1880 - Damon Runyon, writer (d. 1946)
- 1881 - Walther von Brauchitsch German Commander-in-Chief (d. 1948)
- 1892 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician (d. 1934)
- 1895 - Buster Keaton, American comedian, actor (d. 1966)
- 1903 - John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (d. 1995)
- 1903 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner German military officer (d. 1946)
- 1917 - Jan Murray, comedian
- 1924 - Charlton Heston, American actor, NRA president
- 1928 - Alvin Toffler, futurist, author
- 1939 - Jackie Collins, author
- 1941 - Anne Rice, American horror/fantasy writer
- 1943 - H. Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin), civil rights activist
- 1946 - Susan Sarandon, American actress
- 1947 - Ann Widdecombe, British Member of Parliament
- 1949 - Armand Assante, actor
- 1953 - Tchéky Karyo, actor
- 1959 - Tony Meo, English snooker player
- 1960 - Afrika Bambaataa, musician
- 1961 - Jon Secada, singer
- 1963 - A.C. Green, basketball star
- 1967 - Liev Schreiber, actor
- 1967 - Marcus Bentley, British voice actor
- 1976 - Alicia Silverstone, American actress
Deaths
- 1582 - Saint Teresa of Avila (b. 1515)
- 1669 - Rembrandt Dutch painter (b. 1606)
- 1821 - John Rennie, engineer (b. 1761)
- 1880 - Jacques Offenbach, composer (b. 1819)
- 1904 - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor of the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
- 1944 - Al Smith, candidate for President of the United States, Governor of New York (b. 1873)
- 1946 - Barney Oldfield, automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
- 1947 - Max Planck, German physicist (b. 1858)
- 1969 - Natalino Otto, Italian singer
- 1970 - Janis Joplin, American singer (b. 1943)
- 1982 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
- 1989 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (b. 1941)
- 1989 - Secretariat, Triple Crown-winning race horse (b. 1970)
- 1997 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game developer (b. 1941)
- 2003 - Fred Tuttle, subject of 1996 indie film Man With A Plan (b. 1919)
- 2004 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (b. 1927)
Holidays
- Australian Labour Day (ACT, NSW, & SA).
October 3 - October 5 - September 4 - November 4 - more historical anniversaries
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