October 4 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 89 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).
NATIONAL VODKA DAY
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.
NATIONAL VODKA DAY
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.
1777 – A group of 11,000 Patriots under General George Washington attempt an early morning attack on British General William Howe's 9,000 British troops at Germantown, Pennsylvania, five miles north of the British-occupied capital city of Philadelphia.
1864 – New Orleans Tribune, the first black daily newspaper, is formed. Started by Charles Louise Roudanez the Tribune was notable in that it was bilingual.
1895 – The first U.S. Open was played on October 4, 1895, on a nine-hole course at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
1918 – In the early hours of October 4, 1918, German Chancellor Max von Baden, appointed by Kaiser Wilhelm II just three days earlier, sends a telegraph message to the administration of President Woodrow Wilson in Washington, D.C., requesting an armistice between Germany and the Allied powers in World War I.
1922 – For the first time, an entire World Series is broadcast over radio (WJZ & WGY). The New York Giants beat the New York Yankees in five games (four games to none with one tie). This would prove to be Giants' manager John McGraw's third and final World Series win.
1927 – On this day in 1927, sculpting begins on the face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota. It would take another 12 years for the impressive granite images of four of America's most revered and beloved presidents–George Washington,Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt–to be completed.
1957 – The Soviet Union inaugurates the "Space Age" with its launch of Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite.
1965 – Pope Paul VI arrives at Kennedy International Airport in New York City on the first visit by a reigning pope to the United States.
1967 – The first World Series since 1948 not to feature the Yankees, Giants or Dodgers.
1993 – Ten hours into a tank assault on the Russian White House parliament building, rebel parliamentarians led by Vice President Aleksandr Rutskoi and Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov surrender to Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
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.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1861 – Frederic Remington, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 1909)
1880 – Damon Runyon, American author and playwright (d. 1946)
1903 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer (d. 1995)
1941 – Roy Blount, Jr., American journalist and author
From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.
1861 – Frederic Remington, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 1909)
1880 – Damon Runyon, American author and playwright (d. 1946)
1903 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer (d. 1995)
1941 – Roy Blount, Jr., American journalist and author
From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.
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