What are the important events that happened on October 4? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 4: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 4 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 21, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 480,000 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaheptacontaoctagon’ day.
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Libra is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,305 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 4 Historical Events
- 1725 –Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
- 1824 –Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
- 1830 –Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1966 –Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
- 1974 –Founding of the New Democracy party in Greece.
- 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.
- 1988 –U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
Who were born on October 4?
- 1570 –Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1637)
- 1822 –Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
- 1861 –Walter Rauschenbusch, Christian Theologian and Baptist Minister (d. 1918)
- 1880 –Damon Runyon, American writer (d. 1946)
- 1929 –Leroy Van Dyke, American singer
- 1941 –Anne Rice, American writer
- 1951 –Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet
- 1976 –Santiago, Brazilian footballer
- 1977 –Richard Parry, Canadian musician and composer (Arcade Fire)
- 1978 –Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer
Who died on October 4?
- 1660 –Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)
- 1749 –Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
- 1821 –John Rennie, Scottish engineer (b. 1761)
- 1851 –Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (b. 1767)
- 1859 –Karl Baedeker, German publisher (b. 1801)
- 1910 –Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (b. 1850)
- 1958 –Ida Wüst, German actress, (b. 1884)
- 1989 –Graham Chapman, British comedian (b. 1941)
- 1992 –Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver and 1967 Formula One world champion (b. 1936)
- 2004 –Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)
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