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 2023 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, 2023 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 471,216 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.
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 129 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 3,939 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 4 Historical Events
- 1227 –Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
- 1824 –Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
- 1883 –First run of the Orient Express.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands.
- 1957 –Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS.
- 1957 –Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
- 1985 –Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
- 1997 –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.
- 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?
- 1276 –Margaret of Brabant, Queen of Germany (d. 1311)
- 1570 –Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1637)
- 1888 –Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954)
- 1892 –Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician (d. 1934)
- 1914 –Brendan Gill, American writer (d. 1997)
- 1931 –Sir Terence Conran, English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer
- 1943 –Florian Pittiş, Romanian artist (d. 2007)
- 1963 –Koji Ishikawa, Japanese children’s author
- 1977 –Cabral Ibacka, Romanian actor and television presenter
- 1980 –Tim Peper, American actor
Who died on October 4?
- 1754 –Tanacharison, Catawba Indian chief
- 1851 –Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (b. 1767)
- 1864 –Joseph Montferrand, French Canadian logger and strong man (b. 1802)
- 1890 –Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
- 1946 –Barney Oldfield, American automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
- 1975 –Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress (b. 1903)
- 1989 –Graham Chapman, British comedian (b. 1941)
- 1990 –Avis Bunnage, English actress (b. 1923)
- 2001 –Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)
- 2009 –Günther Rall, German fighter ace (b. 1918)
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