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October 4

October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in Leap years). There are 88 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays

Events

• 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
• 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 - Lesotho becomes independent
• 1988 - Jim Bakker indicted for fraud
• 1992 - An El Al Boeing 747-200F crashes into 2 apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 120 including 43 on the ground. See Bijlmerramp
• 1993 - Doom press-release version is made available to journalists for review.
• 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.

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)
• 1861 - Frederic Remington, painter (d. 1909)
• 1858 - Michael Pupin, telephone pioneer, Pulitzer Prize winning author
• 1880 - Damon Runyon, writer (d. 1946)
• 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
• 1960 - Afrika Bambaataa, musician
• 1961 - Jon Secada, singer
• 1963 - A.C. Green, basketball star
• 1967 - Liev Schreiber, actor
• 1976 - Alicia Silverstone, American actress
• 1979 - Rachael Leigh Cook, actress

Deaths

• 1582 - Saint Teresa of Avila (b. 1515)
• 1821 - John Rennie, engineer (b. 1761)
• 1880 - Jacques Offenbach, composer (b. 1919)
• 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)
• 1970 - Janis Joplin, American singer (b. 1943)
• 1982 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
• 1989 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (b. 1941)
• 1997 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game developer (b. 1941)

Holidays

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See also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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