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 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 88 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 21, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,728,000,000 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.
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 117 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 4,305 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 4 Historical Events
- 1777 –Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
- 1895 –The first U.S. Open Men’s Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
- 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.
- 1965 –Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.
- 1976 –Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
- 1988 –U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
- 1991 –The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
- 1993 –Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.
- 2010 –The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severly contaminated.
Who were born on October 4?
- 1585 –Anna of Tyrol, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1618)
- 1936 –Charlie Hurley, Irish footballer
- 1953 –Tchéky Karyo, Turkish-French actor
- 1959 –Chris Lowe, British musician (Pet Shop Boys)
- 1959 –Tony Meo, English snooker player
- 1962 –Jon Secada, Cuban singer and songwriter
- 1976 –Alicia Silverstone, American actress
- 1979 –Bjorn Phau, German tennis player
- 1987 –Rawez Lawan, Swedish footballer
- 1989 –Stacey Solomon, English singer
Who died on October 4?
- 1305 –Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
- 1827 –Grigorios Zalykis, Greek diplomat and lexicographer (b. 1785)
- 1864 –Joseph Montferrand, French Canadian logger and strong man (b. 1802)
- 1904 –Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847)
- 1943 –Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish intelligence agent (b. 1906)
- 1946 –Barney Oldfield, American automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
- 1961 –Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (b. 1880)
- 1982 –Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
- 1999 –Erik Brødreskift (aka Grim), Norwegian black metal musician (b. 1969)
- 2001 –Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)
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