October 4

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

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays
5 External links

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Events

610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
1537 - The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew 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.
1777 - Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe
1824 - Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
1830 - Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands
1883 - First run of the Orient Express.
1883 - First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
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.
1931 - Debut appearance of the Dick Tracy comic strip, created by cartoonist Chester Gould.
1957 - Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1958 - Fifth Republic of France established.
1960 - An Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-188 Electra flying from Boston crashes, killing 62 people after a bird strike.
1966 - Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
1983 - Hooters restaurant first opened in Clearwater, Florida, United States.
1983 - Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph, driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, United States.
1988 - U.S. televangelist 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 two 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 - Russian constitutional crisis of 1993: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders tanks to storm the Russian parliament building.
1998 - Leafie Mason of Hughes Springs, Texas, is murdered by Ángel Maturino Reséndiz. She is the serial killer's second victim in his second incident.
1999 - The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign goes dark as it's new owner doesn't pay the power bill.
2001 - 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, were killed, and 51 others were wounded.
2004 - SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
2005 - Americans John L. Hall and Roy J. Glauber and German Theodor W. Haensch win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Births

1160 - Alys, Countess of the Vexin, daughter of Louis VII of France
1289 - King Louis X of France (d. 1316)
1379 - King Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
1515 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586)
1542 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (d. 1621)
1550 - King Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611)
1562 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (d. 1647)
1570 - Peter Pazmany, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (d. 1637)
1625 - Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy and sister of Blaise Pascal (d. 1661)
1626 - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1712)
1814 - Jean-François Millet, French painter (d. 1875)
1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
1858 - Michael Pupin, Serbian-born telephone pioneer and author (d. 1935)
1861 - Frederic Remington, painter (d. 1909)
1862 - Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930)
1877 - Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
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)
1910 - Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1914 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (d. 2003)
1916 - Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1918 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1922 - Malcolm Baldrige, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1987)
1924 - Charlton Heston, American actor
1928 - Alvin Toffler, American author
1934 - Sam Huff, American football player
1937 - Jackie Collins, British author
1938 - Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 - Anne Rice, American writer
1942 - Karl W. Richter, American aviator
1943 - H. Rap Brown, American civil rights activist
1944 - Tony La Russa, American baseball manager
1945 - Clifton Davis, American actor
1946 - Susan Sarandon, American actress
1947 - Ann Widdecombe, British politician
1949 - Armand Assante, American actor
1953 - Tchéky Karyo, Turkish-born actor
1959 - Chris Lowe, British singer (Pet Shop Boys)
1959 - Tony Meo, English snooker player
1960 - Afrika Bambaataa, American musician
1961 - Jon Secada, Cuban-born singer
1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author and artist
1963 - A.C. Green, American basketball player
1967 - Marcus Bentley, British voice actor
1967 - Liev Schreiber, American actor
1976 - Alicia Silverstone, American actress
1979 - Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
1980 - Me'Lisa Barber, American athlete
[980 - Sarah Fisher, American race car driver
1983 - Thomas wiley millner, English liberalman
1984 - Elena Katina, Russian musician (t.A.T.u.)

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Deaths

1052 - Prince Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)
1221 - William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (b. 1179)
1226 - Saint Francis of Assisi (b. 1181)
1250 - Herman VI, Margrave of Baden
1305 - Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
1582 - Teresa of Avila, Spanish saint and poet (b. 1515)
1597 - Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1550)
1646 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (b. 1586)
1660 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)
1669 - Rembrandt, Dutch painter (b. 1606)
1680 - Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder
1743 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (b. 1678)
1749 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
1754 - Tanacharison, Catawba Indian chief
1785 - David Brearly, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (b. 1703)
1821 - John Rennie, Scottish engineer (b. 1761)
1851 - Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (b. 1767)
1859 - Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher (b. 1801)
1880 - Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)
1903 - Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880)
1904 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (b. 1834)
1935 - Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
1944 - Al Smith, Presidential candidate and Governor of New York (b. 1873)
1946 - Barney Oldfield, American automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
1947 - Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
1951 - Willie Moretti, American gangster (b. 1894)
1969 - Natalino Otto, Italian singer (b. 1912)
1970 - Janis Joplin, American singer (b. 1943)
1982 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
1989 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (b. 1941)
1989 - Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970)
1997 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game developer (b. 1941)
2000 - Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
2002 - Alphonse Chapanis, founder of ergonomics
2003 - Sid McMath, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912)
2004 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (b. 1927)
2005 - Stanley K. Hathaway, U.S. politician (b. 1924)

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Holidays

Roman festivals - Ieiunium Cereris (Fast of Ceres) (since 191 BC; that calendar date fell in late spring at that time).
RC Saints - Feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi; also of Saint Amun, Saint Petronius of Bologna.
Also see October 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Islam - tonight in 2005 Ramadan begins in some parts of the world.
Australia - Labour Day of 2005 (ACT, NSW, & SA, 2004: first Monday of October).
Lesotho - Independence Day (from Britain, 1966).
World Animal Day