Notable Historical Events on October 4th
October 4th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1209 |
Pope Innocent II crowns German king Otto of Wittelsbach |
1227 |
Assassination of Caliph al-Adil. |
1363 |
End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history. |
1537 |
The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale. |
1571 |
-13] Synod of Emden |
1582 |
Last Julian calender day in Spain/Portugal/pontifical states |
1636 |
Battle at Wittstock, Brandenburg: Sweden beat Ferdinand III |
1636 |
In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony's 1st law drafted |
1648 |
Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen |
1675 |
Christian Huygens patents pocket watch |
1693 |
Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French. |
1712 |
Utrecht banishes poor Jews |
1725 |
Foundation of Rosario in Argentina. |
1777 |
Battle of Germantown: Gen George Washington's troops attack and are defeated by the British at Germantown, Pennsylvania |
1779 |
The Fort Wilson Riot takes place. |
1824 |
Mexico becomes a republic |
1830 |
Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands |
1834 |
Franz Grillparzer's "Der Traum ein Leben," premieres in Vienna |
1854 |
Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair |
1862 |
Battle of Corinth ends |
1864 |
National black convention meets (Syracuse NY) |
1864 |
New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms |
1873 |
Toronto Argonaut Football Club forms |
1880 |
University of California founded in Los Angeles |
1881 |
Edward Leveaux patents automatic player piano |
1883 |
Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail |
1883 |
First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland. |
1895 |
Horace Rawlins wins 1st US Open golf tournament (Newport RI) |
1895 |
1st US Golf Open: Horace Rawlins shoots a 173 at Newport GC RI |
1897 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Devil's Disciple," premieres in NYC |
1900 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Problem of Thor Bridge" (BG) |
1900 |
In a final confrontation, some 4000 rebellious Ashantis are defeated by the British, Ashanti, Gold Coast, Africa |
1901 |
Columbia (US) beats Shamrock II (England) in 12th America's Cup |
1904 |
1st day of NYC subway, 350,000 people ride 9.1 mile tracks |
1906 |
Chicago Cubs win their 116th game (116-36 .763) of year |
1910 |
Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England |
1910 |
Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda. |
1911 |
1st public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station) |
1913 |
Bkln Dodger Jake Daubert earns a new Chalmers auto as NL MVP |
1913 |
Freddy Wilson of Regina Roughriders kicks 10 singles in a game |
1914 |
Dardanellen (French & English) fleet bombs Turkish forts |
1915 |
Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established |
1916 |
Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time |
1917 |
British assault on Broodseinde, France |
1918 |
Musical "Sometime" with Mae West premieres in NYC |
1921 |
League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians |
1921 |
Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected president of Free State of Fiume. |
1922 |
For 1st time, entire World Series broadcast over radio (WJZ & WGY) |
1922 |
Protocol of Genevia signed: Austria gains independence |
1923 |
Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for shortest amount of time (3 hrs). Referee overturns decision |
1924 |
NY Giants become 1st team to appear in 4 consecutive World Series |
1925 |
Harry Heilmann's 6 hits edges Ty Cobb .393 to .389 as batting champ |
1926 |
Dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower |
1927 |
Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore. |
1928 |
25th World Series begins, NY Yankees vs St Louis Cardinals |
1928 |
KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet |
1930 |
A's Jack Quinn, 46, pitches 2 inn, is oldest to play in World Series |
1931 |
Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts |
1931 |
Juan Esteban Montero becomes president of Chile |
1932 |
Anti-semite Julius Gombos forms new government in Hungary |
1932 |
Clark Griffith announces Walter Johnson will be manager of Senators |
1933 |
Esquire magazine is 1st published |
1936 |
Italian lire devalued |
1936 |
Record 66,669 at Yankee Stadium for 4th game of World Series |
1939 |
Last Polish troops surrender |
1940 |
12 German aircrafts shot down above England |
1940 |
Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in Alps |
1940 |
French Vichy-regime proclaims end of "Statut of the Juifs" |
1940 |
Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off |
1942 |
German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad |
1943 |
Corsica freed by Free French |
1943 |
German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence) |
1944 |
British troops land on Greek continent |
1944 |
1st All St Louis World Series, all games played at Sportsman's Park |
1944 |
St Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance |
1947 |
Negro League World Series, NY Cubans beat Cleveland Buckeyes, 6-5 |
1948 |
Indians beat Red Sox, 8-0, in 1st AL playoff game |
1948 |
World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft) |
1949 |
American Contract Bridge League votes 58½% to keep blacks out |
1949 |
United Nations' permanent NYC headquarters is dedicated |
1950 |
French troops vacate Cla Afraid Vietnam |
1951 |
In opening World Series game, Giant Monte Irvin steals home in 1st inn |
1952 |
"Top Banana" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 356 perfs |
1953 |
Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:17:39.4) |
1953 |
Mickey Mantle hits a grand slam in World Series |
1955 |
Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees in 7 |
1955 |
Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul |
1956 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
1957 |
"Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS |
1957 |
USSR launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite |
1957 |
Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario. |
1958 |
12th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-3 at Montreal |
1958 |
5th French republic forms |
1958 |
Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began (BOAC) |
1958 |
Fifth Republic of France is established. |
1959 |
1st World Series game played west of St Louis (in LA) |
1959 |
Cleveland Browns' Jim Brown makes club record 37 rushing attempts |
1959 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitch 1st Cello concert premieres in Leningrad |
1959 |
LA Dodgers set World Series attendance record at 92,394 |
1959 |
Netherlands beats Belgium 9-1 |
1959 |
USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side |
1960 |
Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961 |
Whitey Ford's 3rd straight World Series shutout |
1962 |
USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300m |
1962 |
Whitey Ford's World Series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends |
1963 |
-8] Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba & Haiti |
1963 |
Gambia achieves full internal self-government |
1964 |
-7] Hurricane Hilda, kills 38 in La, Miss & Ga |
1964 |
10th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills |
1964 |
3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81 |
1964 |
Italian Autostrada del Sol opens at Milan-Naples |
1964 |
Patriots' Gino Cappelletti kicks 6-of-6 field goals against Broncos |
1964 |
Phils bomb Reds 10-0 as both teams finish one game behind St Louis |
1965 |
"Pickwick" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 56 performances |
1965 |
Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN) |
1965 |
USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon |
1966 |
Dutch Cardinal Alfrink presents New Catechism |
1966 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1966 |
Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1967 |
1st World Series since 1948 not to feature Yanks, Giants or Dodgers |
1967 |
Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. |
1968 |
A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) delegation meet with the Derry March organisers and try to have the march cancelled; eventually it was decided to go ahead with the march. |
1969 |
Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Bkln Myrtle Beach el |
1969 |
UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters |
1969 |
Baseball's 1st divisional playoff games, Mets beat Braves 9-5 & Orioles beat Twins 4-3 in 12 innings |
1970 |
KC Chiefs Jan Stenerud kicks 55-yard field goal |
1970 |
Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages |
1970 |
WFYI TV channel 20 in Indianapolis, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma |
1971 |
Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World |
1971 |
KMPH TV channel 26 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting |
1971 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1972 |
Ted Williams manages his final game as Rangers lose to Royals, 4-0 |
1973 |
Hans of Manens ballet "Adagio Hammerklavier" premieres in Amsterdam |
1974 |
John Lennon releases "Walls & Bridges" album |
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 |
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke |
1976 |
Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers |
1976 |
Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST). |
1977 |
Pier 39 opens in SF |
1978 |
Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I |
1979 |
Hugh Leonards "Life," premieres in Dublin |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1980 |
Mike Schmidt's 2-run HR clinches NL East title for Phillies |
1981 |
Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins Portland Ping Team Golf Champ |
1981 |
Meadowlands Arena opens in NJ |
1981 |
Pasakevi Kouna of Greece (9) is youngest intl gymnastics participant |
1982 |
Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of German FR |
1983 |
Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car |
1984 |
US government closes down due to budget problems |
1984 |
Detroit Tigers clinch AL East |
1985 |
Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia |
1985 |
Shite Moslems claim to have killed hostage William Buckley |
1985 |
Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA. |
1986 |
NY Yank Dave Righetti saves doubleheader for then record 46 saves |
1986 |
Queen Beatrice installs dam at Oosterschelde |
1986 |
Rachel Oliver (Mass), 20, crowned 19th Miss Black America |
1987 |
1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players |
1987 |
Blues Jays lose final 7 games allowing Tigers to win AL pennant |
1987 |
James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception. (He scored on laterals) |
1988 |
Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid |
1989 |
Giants Will Clark hits 1st NLCS grand slam since 1977 |
1989 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1990 |
"Stand Up Tragedy" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 13 performances |
1990 |
Regional elections held, in what is East Germany |
1991 |
Delta Center in Salt Lake City Utah |
1991 |
NHL NY Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier |
1991 |
San Jose Sharks lose 4-3 to Vancouver Canucks in their 1st NHL game |
1991 |
Whiteland Janice, driven by Mike Lachance, wins Kentucky Futurity |
1991 |
The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature. |
1992 |
"Anna Karenina" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 perfs |
1992 |
"Real Inspector Hound" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 perfs |
1992 |
1st time AL East & West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor & Oak |
1992 |
2nd Solheim Cup: Europe beats US, 11½-6½ at Dalmahoy CC Scotland |
1992 |
El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die |
1992 |
Miami Dolphin Louis Oliver returns record tying interception 103 yards |
1992 |
The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique. |
1993 |
Troops of pres Yelsin occupy Russian White House (parliament) |
1994 |
7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen, flood kills 18+ |
1994 |
Keith Moore is charged with stealing $5,000,000 from Sting |
1994 |
Soyuz TM-20 launches |
1995 |
29th Country Music Association Award: Krauss Jackson win |
1995 |
Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over Mariners |
1996 |
BPAA US Bowling Open by Dave Husted |
1996 |
BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Liz Johnson |
1996 |
Shahid Afridi scores century in 37 balls for Pakistan v Sri Lanka |
1997 |
Farm Aid 10 concert in Texas cancelled due to weak ticket sales and moved to Illinois |
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. |
2000 |
34th Country Music Association Award: Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill & Tim McGraw wins |
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. |
2001 |
Barry Bonds hits his 70th home run, tying Mark McGwire for the most home runs hit in a single season |
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. |
2009 |
George Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement defeats Greece's governing New Democracy party in an electoral landslide. |
2012 |
Turkey's parliament approves cross-border military operations in Syria |
2012 |
19 people are killed after being buried by a landslide in Yunnan, China |
2012 |
Jordan's King Abdullah dissolves parliament in preparation for new elections |
2012 |
Formula One legend, Michael Schumacher, retires |
2014 |
New Zealand win the 2014 Rugby Championship |
2016 |
Middle East|US Suspends Talks With Russia on Syria |
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