October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in Leap years). There are 88 days remaining.
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 Great 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 1814 - Jean-Francois Millet, French painter 1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States († 1893) 1861 - Frederic Remington, painter († 1909) 1858 - Michael Pupin, telephone pioneer, Pulitzer Prize winning author 1880 - Damon Runyon, writer († 1946) 1892 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician 1895 - Buster Keaton, American comedian, actor († 1966) 1903 - John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer 1903 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner German military officer († 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 1821 - John Rennie, engineer 1880 - Jacques Offenbach, composer 1904 - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor of the Statue of Liberty 1944 - Al Smith, candidate for President of the United States, Governor of New York 1946 - Barney Oldfield, automobile pioneer 1947 - Max Planck, German physicist 1967 - Woody Guthrie, folk music singer 1970 - Janis Joplin, American singer 1982 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist 1989 - Graham Chapman, British comedian 1997 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game developer Holidays See also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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