About October 4
October 4, 2024 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.
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Libra is the sun 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.
What Happened On October 4
- 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.
- 1876 –Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
- 1883 –First meeting of the Boys’ Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
- 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.
- 1941 –Norman Rockwell’s Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
- 1943 –World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands.
- 1957 –Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS.
- 1963 –Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
- 1967 –Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
- 1974 –Founding of the New Democracy party in Greece.
- 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.
- 1992 –El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
- 1992 –The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
- 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 –NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
- 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.
- 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.
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