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October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 88 days remaining.

Events
610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
1209 - Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
1227 - Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
1511 - Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.
1537 - The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
1582 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
1636 - The Swedish Army defeates those of Saxony and Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
1693 - Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
1725 - Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
1777 - Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe
1779 - The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
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).
1824 - Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
1830 - Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.
1853 - Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
1883 - First run of the Orient Express.
1883 - First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
1895 - The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship run by the United States Golf Association was played on a nine-hole course in Newport, Rhode Island.
1910 - Declaration of the Portuguese Republic. King Manuel II flees to the United Kingdom.
1910 - Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda.
1918 - An explosion occurred killing more than 100 and destroying the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continued for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which are still being found in 2007.
1921 - Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected president of Free State of Fiume.
1927 - Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore.
1931 - Debut appearance of the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, created by cartoonist Chester Gould.
1940 - Meeting of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
1943 - World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands.
1950 - Snoopy's first appearance.
1957 - Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1957 - Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
1957 - The CBS television show Leave it to Beaver debuts, starring Jerry Mathers as Beaver.
1958 - Fifth Republic of France established.
1960 - Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board after a bird strike.
1965 - The first Pope to ever visit the United States of America, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.
1966 - Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
1967 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
1975 - A Cessna 310Q airplane crashes over Wilmington, North Carolina, killing the pilot and severely injuring several pro wrestlers affiliated with the NWA's Mid-Atlantic promotion. One of the survivors is the legendary Ric Flair
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.
1985 - Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA.
1988 - U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker indicted for fraud.
1991 - The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was opened for signature.
1992 - The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16 years' civil war in Mozambique.
1992 - An El Al Boeing 747-200F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 38 on the ground.
1993 - Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombarded the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rallied outside.
1993 - The events portrayed in the movie and book Black Hawk Down (a military insurgency in Somalia) occurred.
1997 - The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurred at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually resulted in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
2001 - 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.
2003 - Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
2004 - SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.

Births
1160 - Alys, Countess of the Vexin, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1220)
1289 - King Louis X of France (d. 1316)
1379 - King Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
1515 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586)
1542 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (d. 1621)
1550 - King Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611)
1562 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (d. 1647)
1570 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1637)
1625 - Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy (d. 1661)
1626 - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1712)
1657 - Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (d. 1747)
1720 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (d. 1778)
1723 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (d. 1798)
1759 - Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (d. 1803)
1787 - François Guizot, French statesman (d. 1874)
1807 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician, prime minister of the Province of Canada (d. 1864)
1814 - Jean-François Millet, French painter (d. 1875)
1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
1841 - Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (d. 1912)
1858 - Michael Pupin, Serbian-born telephone pioneer (d. 1935)
1861 - Frederic Remington, American painter (d. 1909)
1862 - Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930)
1876 - Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (d. 1958)
1877 - Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
1880 - Damon Runyon, American writer (d. 1946)
1881 - Walther von Brauchitsch, German Commander-in-Chief (d. 1948)
1884 - Subramaniya Siva, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1925)
1886 - Luis Alberni, Spanish actor (d. 1962)
1888 - Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954)
1892 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician (d. 1934)
1895 - Buster Keaton, American comedian (d. 1966)
1903 - John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (d. 1995)
1903 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, German military officer and senior Nazi (d. 1946)
1903 - Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician, historian and genealogist (d. 1993)
1907 - Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong media mogul
1910 - Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1914 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (d. 2003)
1914 - Brendan Gill, American writer (d. 1997)
1916 - Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
1916 - George Sidney, American film director (d. 2002)
1918 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1922 - Malcolm Baldrige, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1987)
1922 - Shin Kyuk-Ho, Japanese businessman
1924 - Charlton Heston, American actor
1928 - Alvin Toffler, American author
1928 - Torben Ulrich, Danish musician, writer, filmmaker and tennis player
1929 - Leroy Van Dyke, American singer
1931 - Richard Rorty, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Stanford University
1932 - Milan Chvostek, Canadian television director
1934 - Sam Huff, American football player
1937 - Jackie Collins, British author
1937 - Jim Sillars, Scottish politician
1938 - Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate
1940 - Silvio Marzolini, Argentine footballer
1940 - Alberto Vilar, Cuban-American investor and philanthropist
1941 - Roy Blount, Jr., American writer
1941 - Anne Rice, American writer
1941 - Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian racing driver
1942 - Karl W. Richter, American aviator (d. 1967)
1943 - H. Rap Brown, American civil rights activist
1944 - Tony La Russa, American baseball manager
1944 - Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
1945 - Clifton Davis, American actor
1946 - Chuck Hagel, American politician
1946 - Susan Sarandon, American actress
1947 - Ann Widdecombe, British politician
1947 - Julien Clerc, French singer
1947 - Jim Fielder, American bassist (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1949 - Armand Assante, American actor
1949 - Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director
1951 - Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet
1953 - Tchéky Karyo, Turkish-French actor
1955 - Jorge Valdano, Argentine footballer
1957 - Alexander Tkachyov, Soviet gymnast
1957 - Bill Fagerbakke, American actor
1959 - Chris Lowe, British musician (Pet Shop Boys)
1959 - Tony Meo, English snooker player
1960 - Afrika Bambaataa, American musician
1960 - Joe Boever, American baseball player
1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author
1962 - Jon Secada, Cuban singer and songwriter
1963 - A.C. Green, American basketball player
1965 - Skip Heller, American musician
1967 - Marcus Bentley, British voice actor
1967 - Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin, Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer
1967 - Liev Schreiber, American actor
1970 - Richard Hancox, English footballer
1971 - Friderika Bayer, Hungarian singer
1972 - Kurt Thomas, American basketball player
1973 - Chris Parks, American wrestler
1975 - Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian football player
1976 - Alicia Silverstone, American actress
1976 - Mauro Camoranesi, Argentine-Italian footballer
1978 - Ko Soo, South Korean television and movie actor
1979 - Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
1979 - Stefan Booth, British actor
1980 - Kristina Lenko, Canadian Ice Skater
1980 - Me'Lisa Barber, American athlete
1980 - Sarah Fisher, American race car driver
1980 - Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer
1981 - Justin Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Scott Hammond, American photographer
1981 - Ahmad Hafizal Bin Ahmad Shanusi, Malaysian Designer
1982 - Jered Weaver, American baseball player
1982 - Tony Gwynn Jr., American baseball player
1983 - Risa Kudo, Japanese gravure idol
1983 - Ueda Tatsuya, Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN)
1983 - Dan Clarke, British racing driver
1986 - Yuridia, Mexican singer
1989 - Lil Mama, American rapper
1991 - Holly Wells, British murdered child (d. 2002)
2005 - Prince Emmanuel of Belgium

Holidays and observances
Roman festivals - Ieiunium Cereris (Fast of Ceres) (since 191 BC; that calendar date fell in late spring at that time).
RC Saints - Feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi; also of Saint Amun, Saint Petronius of Bologna.
Also see October 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Australia - Labour Day of 2005 (ACT, NSW, & SA, 2004: first Monday of October).
Lesotho - Independence Day (from Britain, 1966).
Mozambique - Day of Peace and Reconciliation (Dia da Paz e da Reconciliação), in memory of the 1992 Rome General Peace Accords
World Animal Day
French Republican Calendar - Potiron (Pumpkin) Day, thirteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
The beginning of World Space Week
Sweden celebrates National Cinnamon bun Day (since 1999).