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What Happened on October 4th This Day in History

Year	Name
2022	Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
2021	Bubba Wallace becomes the first African-American Driver in the modern era of NASCAR to win a major race
2017	Joint Nigerien-American Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo.
2010	The Ajka plant accident in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers.
2006	WikiLeaks is launched.
2004	SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
2003	The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
2001	Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
1997	The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina
1993	Battle of Mogadishu occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two UN Peacekeepers and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians.
1993	Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.
1992	The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
1992	El Al Flight 1862 crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
1991	The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
1985	The Free Software Foundation is founded.
1983	Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
1967	Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son.
1966	Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
1965	Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
1963	Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
1960	An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.
1958	The current constitution of France is adopted.
1957	Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1941	Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
1936	The Metropolitan Police and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
1927	Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
1925	Great Syrian Revolt: Rebels led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji captured Hama from the French Mandate of Syria.
1925	S2, a Finnish Sokol class torpedo boat, sinks during a fierce storm near the coast of Pori in the Gulf of Bothnia, taking with it the whole crew of 53.
1920	The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare, a Finnish non-governmental organization, is founded on the initiative of Sophie Mannerheim.
1918	World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
1917	World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
1895	Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
1883	First run of the Orient Express.
1883	First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
1876	The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
1853	The Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
1830	The Belgian Revolution takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands.
1824	Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
1795	Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
1777	American Revolutionary War: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under William Howe.
1693	Nine Years' War: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
1636	Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
1602	Eighty Years' War and the Anglo-Spanish War: A fleet of Spanish galleys are defeated by English and Dutch galleons in the English Channel.
1597	Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now the state of Georgia.
1582	The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.
1535	The Coverdale Bible is printed, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
1511	Formation of the Holy League of Aragon, the Papal States and Venice against France.
1363	Battle of Lake Poyang: In one of the largest naval battles in history, Zhu Yuanzhang's rebels defeat rival Chen Youliang.
1302	The Byzantine–Venetian War comes to an end.
1209	Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
23	Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion.

Famous People Born on October 4

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Year	Name
1888	Lucy Tayiah Eads, American tribal chief (d. 1961)
1931	Richard Rorty, American philosopher and author (d. 2007)
1929	Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (d. 1968)
1965	Skip Heller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1957	Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter (d. 2013)
1940	Silvio Marzolini, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 2020)
1768	Francisco José de Caldas, Colombian naturalist, executed by royalists in the war of independence (d. 1816)
1933	German Moreno, Filipino television host and actor (d. 2016)
1274	Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1319)
1983	Vicky Krieps, Luxembourgish actress

Famous People Deaths On October 4

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on October 4. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1852	James Whitcomb, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Indiana (b. 1795)
2000	Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 32nd Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1914)
1827	Grigorios Zalykis, Greek-French lexicographer and scholar (b. 1785)
2004	Gordon Cooper, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927)
1867	Francis Xavier Seelos, German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819)
2020	Clark Middleton, American actor (b. 1957)
1052	Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)
2010	Norman Wisdom, English actor, comedian, and singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
863	Turpio, Frankish nobleman
2011	Doris Belack, American actress (b. 1926)