October 4 Events |
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| October 4th, 2004 (October 04 2004) | Event | SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight. | |
| October 4th, 2003 (October 04 2003) | Event | Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded. | |
| October 4th, 2001 (October 04 2001) | Event | Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: 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. | |
| October 4th, 1997 (October 04 1997) | Event | The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken. | |
| October 4th, 1993 (October 04 1993) | Event | Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside. | Boris Yeltsin Quotes |
| October 4th, 1992 (October 04 1992) | Event | The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique. | |
| October 4th, 1992 (October 04 1992) | Event | El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground. | |
| October 4th, 1991 (October 04 1991) | Event | The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature. | |
| October 4th, 1988 (October 04 1988) | Event | U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud. | |
| October 4th, 1985 (October 04 1985) | Event | Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA. | |
| October 4th, 1983 (October 04 1983) | Event | Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. | |
| October 4th, 1976 (October 04 1976) | Event | Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST). | |
| October 4th, 1975 (October 04 1975) | Event | A Cessna 310Q airplane crashes over Wilmington, North Carolina, killing the pilot and severely injuring several pro wrestlers affiliated with the NWA s Mid-Atlantic promotion. One of the survivors is the legendary Ric Flair. | |
| October 4th, 1967 (October 04 1967) | Event | Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. | |
| October 4th, 1966 (October 04 1966) | Event | Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho. | |
| October 4th, 1965 (October 04 1965) | Event | The first Pope to ever visit the United States of America, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York. | |
| October 4th, 1960 (October 04 1960) | Event | Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston s Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board. | |
| October 4th, 1958 (October 04 1958) | Event | Fifth Republic of France is established. | |
| October 4th, 1957 (October 04 1957) | Event | Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. | |
| October 4th, 1957 (October 04 1957) | Event | Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario. | |
| October 4th, 1943 (October 04 1943) | Event | World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands. | Solomon Quotes |
| October 4th, 1940 (October 04 1940) | Event | Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass. | Benito Mussolini Quotes |
| October 4th, 1927 (October 04 1927) | Event | Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore. | |
| October 4th, 1921 (October 04 1921) | Event | Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected president of Free State of Fiume. | |
| October 4th, 1918 (October 04 1918) | Event | An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which are still being found in 2007. | |
| October 4th, 1910 (October 04 1910) | Event | Declaration of the Portuguese Republic. King Manuel II flees to the United Kingdom. | |
| October 4th, 1910 (October 04 1910) | Event | Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda. | |
| October 4th, 1895 (October 04 1895) | Event | The first U.S. Open Men s Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island. | |
| October 4th, 1883 (October 04 1883) | Event | First run of the Orient Express. | |
| October 4th, 1883 (October 04 1883) | Event | First meeting of the Boys Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland. | |
| October 4th, 1853 (October 04 1853) | Event | Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia. | |
| October 4th, 1830 (October 04 1830) | Event | Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands. | |
| October 4th, 1824 (October 04 1824) | Event | Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic. | |
| October 4th, 1795 (October 04 1795) | Event | Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot", using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention). | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| October 4th, 1779 (October 04 1779) | Event | The Fort Wilson Riot takes place. | |
| October 4th, 1777 (October 04 1777) | Event | Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe. | George Washington Quotes |
| October 4th, 1725 (October 04 1725) | Event | Foundation of Rosario in Argentina. | |
| October 4th, 1693 (October 04 1693) | Event | Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French. | |
| October 4th, 1636 (October 04 1636) | Event | The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock. | |
| October 4th, 1582 (October 04 1582) | Event | Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15. | |
| October 4th, 1537 (October 04 1537) | Event | The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale. | |
| October 4th, 1511 (October 04 1511) | Event | Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France. | |
| October 4th, 1363 (October 04 1363) | Event | End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history. | |
| October 4th, 1227 (October 04 1227) | Event | Assassination of Caliph al-Adil. | |
| October 4th, 1209 (October 04 1209) | Event | Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III. | |
| October 4th, 0610 (October 04 0610) | Event | Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor. | |
