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, 29,325,600 minutes 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
- 1227 –Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
- 1636 –The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
- 1779 –The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
- 1876 –Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
- 1957 –Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
- 1963 –Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
- 1966 –Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
- 1976 –Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
- 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.
- 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)
- 1876 –Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (d. 1958)
- 1890 –Dr. Alan L. Hart, American transsexual, radiologist, and novelist (d. 1962)
- 1911 –Sir Michael Hordern, British actor (d. 1995)
- 1943 –Florian Pittiş, Romanian artist (d. 2007)
- 1949 –Marion Pruett, American spree killer (d. 1999)
- 1957 –Russell Simmons, American entrepreneur
- 1975 –Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian football player
- 1976 –Alicia Silverstone, American actress
- 1979 –Bjorn Phau, German tennis player
Who died on October 4?
- 1221 –William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (b. 1179)
- 1250 –Herman VI, Margrave of Baden (b. 1226)
- 1305 –Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
- 1947 –Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1858)
- 1955 –Alexander Papagos, Greek general and political leader (b. 1883)
- 1990 –Alyn Ainsworth, British bandleader (b. 1924)
- 1996 –Larry Gene Bell, American child murderer (executed by electric chair) (b. 1949)
- 2000 –Michael Smith, biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
- 2002 –Alphonse Chapanis, founder of ergonomics (b. 1917)
- 2004 –Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)
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