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What happend on 4. October in History
In our data base we found 330 events happened on 4. October:
• 610: Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor. [category: Events]
• 1052: Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020) [category: Deaths]
• 1160: Alys, Countess of the Vexin (d. 1220) [category: Births]
• 1227: Assassination of Caliph al-Adil. [category: Events]
• 1250: Herman VI, Margrave of Baden (b. 1226) [category: Deaths]
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• 1276: Margaret of Brabant (d. 1311) [category: Births]
• 1289: Louis X of France (d. 1316) [category: Births]
• 1305: Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249) [category: Deaths]
• 1331: James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, Irish politician (d. 1382) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1379: Henry III of Castile (d. 1406) [category: Births]
• 1511: Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France. [category: Events]
• 1515: Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586) [category: Births]
• 1535: The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale. [category: Events]
• 1542: Robert Bellarmine, Italian cardinal (d. 1621) [category: Births]
• 1550: Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611) [category: Births]
• 1562: Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (d. 1647) [category: Births]
• 1570: Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1637) [category: Births]
• 1582: Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint (b. 1515) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
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• 1585: Anna of Tyrol (d. 1618) [category: Births]
• 1597: Sarsa Dengel, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1550) [category: Deaths]
• 1625: Jacqueline Pascal, French nun (d. 1661) [category: Births]
• 1626: Richard Cromwell, English politician (d. 1712) [category: Births]
• 1636: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock. [category: Events]
• 1646: Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (b. 1586) [category: Deaths]
• 1657: Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (d. 1747) [category: Births]
• 1660: Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578) [category: Deaths]
• 1661: Jacqueline Pascal, French nun (b. 1625) [category: Deaths]
• 1669: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (b. 1606) [category: Deaths]
• 1680: Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer, designed the Canal du Midi (b. 1609) [category: Deaths]
• 1693: Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French. [category: Events]
• 1720: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian illustrator (d. 1778) [category: Births]
• 1723: Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (d. 1798) [category: Births]
• 1725: Foundation of Rosario in Argentina. [category: Events]
• 1743: John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (b. 1678) [category: Deaths]
• 1749: Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711) [category: Deaths]
• 1754: Tanacharison, American tribal chief (b. 1700) [category: Deaths]
• 1759: Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (d. 1803) [category: Births]
• 1777: Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe. [category: Events]
• 1779: The Fort Wilson Riot takes place. [category: Events]
• 1785: David Brearley, American politician, signed the United States Constitution (b. 1703) [category: Deaths]
• 1787: François Guizot, French politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1874) [category: Births]
• 1793: Charles Pearson, British social reformer (d. 1862) [category: Births]
• 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). [category: Events]
• 1807: Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian politician (d. 1864) [category: Births]
• 1814: Jean-François Millet, French painter (d. 1875) [category: Births]
• 1821: John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (b. 1761) [category: Deaths]
• 1822: Rutherford B. Hayes, American politician, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893) [category: Births]
• 1824: Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic. [category: Events]
• 1827: Grigorios Zalykis, Greek diplomat and lexicographer (b. 1785) [category: Deaths]
• 1830: Creation of the Kingdom of Belgium after separation from the Netherlands. [category: Events]
• 1836: Juliette Adam, French author (d. 1936) [category: Births]
• 1841: Maria Sophie of Bavaria (d. 1925) [category: Births]
• 1841: Prudente de Morais, Brazilian politician, 3rd President of Brazil (d. 1912) [category: Births]
• 1851: Manuel de Godoy, Prince of the Peace, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1767) [category: Deaths]
• 1852: James Whitcomb, American politician, 8th Governor of Indiana (b. 1795) [category: Deaths]
• 1853: Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia. [category: Events]
• 1859: Karl Baedeker, German publisher, founded Baedeker (b. 1801) [category: Deaths]
• 1861: Frederic Remington, American painter (d. 1909) [category: Births]
• 1861: Walter Rauschenbusch, American theologian and pastor (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1862: Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930) [category: Births]
• 1864: Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802) [category: Deaths]
• 1867: Francis Xavier Seelos German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819) [category: Deaths]
• 1868: Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Argentine politician, 20th President of Argentina (d. 1942) [category: Births]
• 1871: Sarel Cilliers South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801) [category: Deaths]
• 1875: Bob McKinney, American baseball player (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1876: Hugh McCrae, Australian author (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1876: Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas. [category: Events]
• 1877: Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1880: Damon Runyon, American author (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1881: Henry Potter, American golfer (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1881: Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1883: Charles Healy, American water polo player [category: Births]
• 1883: First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland. [category: Events]
• 1883: First run of the Orient Express. [category: Events]
• 1884: Subramaniya Siva, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1925) [category: Births]
• 1886: Luis Alberni, Spanish actor (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1888: Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954) [category: Births]
• 1890: Alan L. Hart, American physician and author (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1890: Catherine Booth, English co-founder of The Salvation Army (b. 1829) [category: Deaths]
• 1892: Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician, 14th Federal Chancellor of Austria (d. 1934) [category: Births]
• 1892: Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist (d. 1934) [category: Births]
• 1895: Buster Keaton, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1895: Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1903: Bona Arsenault, Canadian politician and historian (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1903: Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German military officer (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1903: John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist, invented the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1903: Pierre Garbay, French army general (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1903: Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1904: Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847) [category: Deaths]
• 1904: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834) [category: Deaths]
• 1910: Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1910: Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850) [category: Deaths]
• 1913: Martial Célestin, Haitian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1914: Brendan Gill, American journalist and author (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1914: Jim Cairns, Australian politician (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1916: George Sidney, American director (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1916: Jan Murray, American comedian, actor, and game show host (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1916: Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1917: Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1917: The Battle of Broodseinde fought between the British and German armies in Flanders. [category: Events]
• 1918: Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1918: An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. [category: Events]
• 1922: Malcolm Baldrige, Jr., American businessman, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1922: Shin Kyuk-Ho, Japanese businessman, founded Lotte Group [category: Births]
• 1923: Charlton Heston, American actor (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1924: Donald J. Sobol, American author (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1925: Roger Wood, Belgian-American journalist (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1926: Raymond Watson, American businessman (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1927: Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore. [category: Events]
• 1928: Alvin Toffler, American journalist and author [category: Births]
• 1928: Torben Ulrich, Danish-American tennis player [category: Births]
• 1929: Leroy Van Dyke, American singer [category: Births]
• 1929: Scotty Beckett, American actor (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1931: Basil D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1931: Richard Rorty, American philosopher (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1931: Terence Conran, English designer and businessman [category: Births]
• 1932: Milan Chvostek, Canadian director and producer [category: Births]
• 1934: Dimosthenis Sofianos, Greek journalist [category: Births]
• 1934: Sam Huff, American football player [category: Births]
• 1935: Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849) [category: Deaths]
• 1935: Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1936: Charlie Hurley, Irish footballer [category: Births]
• 1937: Jackie Collins, English author and actress [category: Births]
• 1937: Jim Sillars, Scottish politician [category: Births]
• 1938: Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1940: Alberto Vilar, Cuban-American investor and philanthropist [category: Births]
• 1940: Silvio Marzolini, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1940: Steve Swallow, American bass player and composer [category: Births]
• 1940: Vic Hadfield, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1940: Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass. [category: Events]
• 1941: Anne Rice, American author [category: Births]
• 1941: Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1941: Robert Wilson, American director and playwright [category: Births]
• 1941: Roy Blount, Jr., American author [category: Births]
• 1941: Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. [category: Events]
• 1942: Bernice Johnson Reagon, American singer-songwriter (Sweet Honey in the Rock) [category: Births]
• 1942: Christopher Stone, American actor (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1942: Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Icelandic politician, 24th Prime Minister of Iceland [category: Births]
• 1942: Karl W. Richter, American pilot (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1943: Dietmar Mürdter, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1943: Florian Pittiș, Romanian actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1943: H. Rap Brown, American activist [category: Births]
• 1943: Jimy Williams, American baseball player and manager [category: Births]
• 1943: Karl-Gustav Kaisla, Finnish ice hockey referee (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1943: Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish lieutenant and intelligence agent (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands. [category: Events]
• 1944: Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1944: Tony La Russa, American baseball player and manager [category: Births]
• 1944: Al Smith, American politician, 42nd Governor of New York (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Clifton Davis, American singer-songwriter and actor [category: Births]
• 1946: Bridget St John, English singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1946: Chuck Hagel, American politician [category: Births]
• 1946: Larry Clapp, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013) [category: Births]
• 1946: Michael Mullen, American admiral [category: Births]
• 1946: Susan Sarandon, American actress [category: Births]
• 1946: Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Ann Widdecombe, English politician [category: Births]
• 1947: Jim Fielder, American bass player (Blood, Sweat & Tears and The Mothers of Invention) [category: Births]
• 1947: Julien Clerc, French singer-songwriter and pianist [category: Births]
• 1947: Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858) [category: Deaths]
• 1948: Duke Robillard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1948: Linda McMahon, American businesswoman and politician [category: Births]
• 1949: Armand Assante, American actor [category: Births]
• 1949: Marion Pruett, American murderer (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1949: Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director [category: Births]
• 1950: Meg Bennett, American actress and scriptwriter [category: Births]
• 1951: Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet [category: Births]
• 1951: Gil Moore, Canadian singer-songwriter and drummer (Triumph) [category: Births]
• 1951: Henrietta Lacks, American patient, HeLa cells derived from her cervical cancer (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: Willie Moretti, Italian-American gangster (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1953: Andreas Vollenweider, Swiss harp player [category: Births]
• 1953: Tchéky Karyo, Turkish-French actor [category: Births]
• 1955: Jorge Valdano, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1955: Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: Christoph Waltz, Austrian actor [category: Births]
• 1957: Bill Fagerbakke, American actor [category: Births]
• 1957: Kyra Schon, American actress [category: Births]
• 1957: Russell Simmons, American businessman, founded Def Jam Recordings and Phat Farm [category: Births]
• 1957: Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario. [category: Events]
• 1957: Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS. [category: Events]
• 1957: Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. [category: Events]
• 1958: Anneka Rice, Welsh television host [category: Births]
• 1958: Ida Wüst, German actress (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Fifth Republic of France is established. [category: Events]
• 1959: Chris Lowe, English singer and keyboard player (Pet Shop Boys) [category: Births]
• 1959: Tony Meo, English snooker player [category: Births]
• 1960: Joe Boever, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1961: Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author [category: Births]
• 1961: Philippe Russo, French singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1961: Metropolitan Benjamin, Russian bishop and missionary (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Carlos Carsolio, Mexican mountaineer [category: Births]
• 1962: Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1963: A. C. Green, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1963: Koji Ishikawa, Japanese author and illustrator [category: Births]
• 1963: Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti. [category: Events]
• 1965: Micky Ward, American boxer [category: Births]
• 1965: Olaf Backasch, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1965: Skip Heller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1965: Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York. [category: Events]
• 1966: Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho. [category: Events]
• 1967: Ekin Cheng, Hong Kong actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1967: Liev Schreiber, American actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Marcus Bentley, English voice actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. [category: Events]
• 1968: Richard Hancox, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1968: Tim Wise, American activist and author [category: Births]
• 1969: Abraham Benrubi, American actor [category: Births]
• 1969: Natalino Otto, Italian singer (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (Big Brother and the Holding Company) (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Darren Middleton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Powderfinger and Drag) [category: Births]
• 1971: Friderika Bayer, Hungarian singer [category: Births]
• 1972: Kurt Thomas, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1973: Abyss, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1974: Paco León, Spanish actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Anne Sexton, American poet (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Founding of the New Democracy party in Greece. [category: Events]
• 1975: Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Daniella Deutscher, American actress [category: Births]
• 1975: Mohamed Jameel, Maldivian footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Alicia Silverstone, American actress, producer, and author [category: Births]
• 1976: Elisandro Naressi Roos, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Mauro Camoranesi, Argentine-Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Ueli Steck, Swiss mountaineer [category: Births]
• 1976: Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST). [category: Events]
• 1977: Cabral Ibacka, Romanian actor [category: Births]
• 1977: Richard Parry, Canadian musician and songwriter (Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre) [category: Births]
• 1977: José Ber Gelbard, Argentine activist and politician (b. 1917). [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Go Soo, South Korean actor [category: Births]
• 1978: Kyle Lohse, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1978: Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer [category: Births]
• 1979: Adam Voges, Australian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1979: Bjorn Phau, German tennis player [category: Births]
• 1979: Brandon Barash, American actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress and producer [category: Births]
• 1979: Stefan Booth, English actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1980: James Jones, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Me'Lisa Barber, American sprinter [category: Births]
• 1980: Mellisa Hollingsworth, Canadian skeleton racer [category: Births]
• 1980: Sarah Fisher, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1980: Tim Peper, American actor [category: Births]
• 1980: Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Justin Williams, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1981: Shaura, Japanese singer (Moi dix Mois) [category: Births]
• 1981: Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Jered Weaver, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Tony Gwynn Jr., American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: The Amazing Criswell, American psychic and actor (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Chansi Stuckey, American football player [category: Births]
• 1983: Dan Clarke, English race car driver [category: Births]
• 1983: Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Marios Nicolaou, Cypriot footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Risa Kudō, Japanese model and actress [category: Births]
• 1983: Tatsuya Ueda, Japanese singer and actor (KAT-TUN) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1984: Lena Katina, Russian singer-songwriter (t.A.T.u. and Neposedi) [category: Births]
• 1984: Álvaro Parente, Portuguese race car driver [category: Births]
• 1985: Shontelle, Barbadian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1985: Thorsten Wiedemann, German rugby player [category: Births]
• 1985: Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States. [category: Events]
• 1986: Yuridia, Mexican singer [category: Births]
• 1987: Marina Weisband, German politician [category: Births]
• 1987: Rawez Lawan, Swedish footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Will Puddy, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Derrick Rose, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1988: U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud. [category: Events]
• 1989: Dakota Johnson, American model and actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Lil Mama, American rapper [category: Births]
• 1989: Stacey Solomon, English singer [category: Births]
• 1989: Graham Chapman, English comedian and actor (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Alyn Ainsworth, English singer and bandleader (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Avis Bunnage, English actress (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: J. Frank Wilson, American singer (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature. [category: Events]
• 1992: Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1992: The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1994: Danny Gatton, American guitarist (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Larry Gene Bell, American murderer (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created Game Boy (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. [category: Events]
• 1999: Art Farmer, American trumpet player (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Bernard Buffet, French painter (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Erik Brødreskift, Norwegian drummer (Immortal and Borknagar) (b. 1969) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Michael Smith, English-Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: John Collins, American guitarist (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 2002: André Delvaux, Belgian director and screenwriter (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Sid McMath, American politician (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded. [category: Events]
• 2004: Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Rio Diaz, Filipino actress (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space. [category: Events]
• 2005: Prince Emmanuel of Belgium [category: Births]
• 2005: Stanley K. Hathaway, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Tom Bell, English actor (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian general (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Günther Rall, German pilot (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer and activist (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Norman Wisdom, English actor and singer (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 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 severely contaminated. [category: Events]
• 2012: Erhard Wunderlich, German handball player (b. 1956) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Günter Böttcher, German handball player (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: K. C. N. Gowda, Indian film producer (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Pramote Teerawiwatana, Thai badminton player (b. 1967) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Tom Stannage, Australian historian and academic (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• _: Amun [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Cinnamon Roll Day or kanelbullens dag (Sweden) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Day of Peace and Reconciliation (Mozambique) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Francis of Assisi [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Lesotho from the United Kingdom in 1966. [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: October 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Petronius of Bologna. [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The beginning of World Space Week (International) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: World Animal Day (International) [category: Holidays and observances]