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 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 88 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 21, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 488,760 hours 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 136 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 4,670 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 4 Historical Events
- 610 –Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
- 1511 –Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.
- 1795 –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).
- 1927 –Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
- 1940 –Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
- 1960 –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.
- 1966 –Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
- 1976 –Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
- 2001 –NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
- 2004 –SpaceShipOne‘’wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
Who were born on October 4?
- 1861 –Walter Rauschenbusch, Christian Theologian and Baptist Minister (d. 1918)
- 1877 –Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
- 1895 –Buster Keaton, American comedian (d. 1966)
- 1940 –Vic Hadfield, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1941 –Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian racing driver
- 1967 –Liev Schreiber, American actor
- 1968 –Richard Hancox, English footballer
- 1978 –Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer
- 1983 –Chansi Stuckey, American football player
- 1983 –Dan Clarke, British racing driver
Who died on October 4?
- 1669 –Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (b. 1606)
- 1867 –Francis Xavier Seelos German-American Roman Catholic priest (b. 1819)
- 1904 –Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847)
- 1982 –Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
- 1990 –Avis Bunnage, English actress (b. 1923)
- 1996 –Larry Gene Bell, American child murderer (executed by electric chair) (b. 1949)
- 2002 –André Delvaux, Belgian film director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
- 2004 –Rio Diaz, Filipino actress & TV host (b. 1959)
- 2005 –Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (b. 1924)
- 2007 –Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian General (b. 1925)
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