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October 4th Calendar By Years in History

  • Calendar Day of Week for October 4th. It's the 277th day of the year (278th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 88 days left to the end of the year.

Historical Events for October 4th

  • Year 46 » Julius Caesar defeats Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
  • Year 871 Calendar » Battle of Reading (871) called Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Denmark named Danish invasion army.
  • Year 1490 Calendar » Anne of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the List of French monarchs or King of France will be considered guilty of the crime of Lese-majesty.
  • Year 1649 Calendar » English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial.
  • Year 1717 Calendar » The Dutch Republic Netherlands, Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance (1717) Triple Alliance.
  • Year 1762 Calendar » Great Britain declares war on Spain and Naples.
  • Year 1798 Calendar » Constantine Hangerli arrives in Bucharest, Wallachia, as its new Prince of Wallachia called Prince, invested by the Ottoman Empire.
  • Year 1847 Calendar » Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
  • Year 1854 Calendar » The Heard Island and McDonald Islands known as McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the 'Samarang'.
  • Year 1863 Calendar » The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and Premillennialism e.g chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany.
  • Year 1865 Calendar » The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City named New York, New York.
  • Year 1878 Calendar » Sofia is emancipated from Ottoman Empire or Ottoman rule.
  • Year 1884 Calendar » The Fabian Society is founded in London e.g London, England, United Kingdom.
  • Year 1889 Calendar » The Oklahoma Land Run opens 2 million acres of unused Oklahoma Territory to first serve first come settlers on April 22.
  • Year 1896 Calendar » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
  • Year 1912 Calendar » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the Commonwealth of Nations or British Commonwealth by Royal charter.
  • Year 1944 Calendar » World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
  • Year 1948 Calendar » Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
  • Year 1951 Calendar » Korean War: China called Chinese and North Korean forces Third Battle of Seoul known as capture Seoul.
  • Year 1955 Calendar » The Greece named Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.
  • Year 1958 Calendar » 'Sputnik 1' falls to Earth from orbit.
  • Year 1959 Calendar » 'Luna 1' becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
  • Year 1965 Calendar » President of the United States called United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address.
  • Year 1966 Calendar » A military coup takes place in French Upper Volta named Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso), dissolving the National Parliament and leading to a new national constitution.
  • Year 1970 Calendar » A 1970 Tonghai earthquake named magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Tonghai County, China, killing at least 15,000 people.
  • Year 1972 Calendar » Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England.
  • Year 1974 Calendar » United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate scandal e.g Watergate Committee.
  • Year 1987 Calendar » The 1987 Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train 'en route' to Boston named Boston, Massachusetts from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, killing 16 people.
  • Year 1989 Calendar » Gulf of Sidra incident (1989) Second Gulf of Sidra incident: a pair of Libyan Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of United States Navy US Navy Grumman F-14 Tomcat F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.
  • Year 1998 Calendar » North American Ice Storm of 1998 known as A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
  • Year 1998 » Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998 called Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
  • Year 1999 Calendar » Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.
  • Year 2000 Calendar » Two trains on the Røros Line Åsta accident named collide in Åsta, Norway, resulting in an explosive fire and 19 deaths.
  • Year 2004 Calendar » Spirit rover e.g 'Spirit', a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 Coordinated Universal Time known as UTC.
  • Year 2004 » Mikheil Saakashvili is Georgian presidential election, 2004 e.g elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
  • Year 2006 Calendar » Prime Minister of Israel named Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
  • Year 2007 Calendar » The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the United States House of Representatives or Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
  • Year 2013 Calendar » A gunman Kawit shooting named kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, Cavite called Kawit, the Philippines.

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