What Happened Today In History

About October 4

October 4, 2024 is the 278^th 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.

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What Happened On October 4

• 610 –
  Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
• 1535 –
  The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
• 1636 –
  The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
• 1853 –
  Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
• 1883 –
  First meeting of the Boys’ Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
• 1883 –
  First run of the Orient Express.
• 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.
• 1957 –
  Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
• 1957 –
  Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS.
• 1958 –
  Fifth Republic of France is established.
• 1960 –
  Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston’s Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board.
• 1965 –
  Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.
• 1966 –
  Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
• 1976 –
  Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
• 1985 –
  Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
• 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.
• 2003 –
  Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.