What are the important events that happened on October 4? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 4: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 4 is the 278th day of the year 2016 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 88 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 21, 2016 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,475,539,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaheptacontaoctagon’ day.
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Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 116 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 1,383 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 4 Historical Events
- 1227 –Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
- 1830 –Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.
- 1918 –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 were still being found as of 2007.
- 1927 –Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
- 1957 –Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
- 1965 –Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.
- 1967 –Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
- 1991 –The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
- 1992 –El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
- 2001 –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.
Who were born on October 4?
- 1289 –King Louis X of France (d. 1316)
- 1931 –Basil D'Oliveira CBE, South African born cricketer
- 1941 –Robert Wilson, American theatre director
- 1943 –Florian Pittiş, Romanian artist (d. 2007)
- 1946 –Chuck Hagel, American politician
- 1968 –Richard Hancox, English footballer
- 1969 –Abraham Benrubi, American actor
- 1971 –Darren Middleton, Australian guitarist
- 1973 –Chris Parks, American wrestler
- 1984 –Lena Katina, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.)
Who died on October 4?
- 1660 –Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)
- 1661 –Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy (b. 1625)
- 1680 –Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer
- 1961 –Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (b. 1880)
- 1982 –Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
- 1994 –Danny Gatton, American guitar virtuoso (b. 1945)
- 2000 –Michael Smith, biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
- 2005 –Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (b. 1924)
- 2009 –Günther Rall, German fighter ace (b. 1918)
- 2010 –Sir Norman Wisdom, English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1915)
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