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 277th day of the year 2017 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 88 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 21, 2017 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,507,075,200 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 ‘dihectaheptacontaheptagon’ 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 138 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 1,748 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 4 Historical Events
- 1883 –First run of the Orient Express.
- 1957 –Sputnik 1 is launched by the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- 1976 –Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
- 1983 –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.
- 1988 –U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
- 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.
- 1992 –The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
- 2001 –NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
Who were born on October 4?
- 1862 –Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930)
- 1880 –Damon Runyon, American writer (d. 1946)
- 1903 –John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (d. 1995)
- 1918 –Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
- 1942 –Johanna Sigurdardottir, Prime Minister of Iceland
- 1943 –Margaret Pemberton, English writer
- 1947 –Ann Widdecombe, British politician
- 1959 –Tony Meo, English snooker player
- 1986 –Yuridia, Mexican singer
- 1987 –Rawez Lawan, Swedish footballer
Who died on October 4?
- 1305 –Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
- 1646 –Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (b. 1586)
- 1910 –Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (b. 1850)
- 1944 –Al Smith, American politician (b. 1873)
- 1977 –José Ber Gelbard, Argentine activist and politician (b. 1917).
- 1982 –Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
- 1989 –Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970)
- 1999 –Bernard Buffet, French painter (b. 1928)
- 2005 –Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (b. 1924)
- 2009 –Günther Rall, German fighter ace (b. 1918)
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