4th of October

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October 4th is the 277th (two hundred and seventy-seventh) day of the year—the 278th (two hundred and seventy-eighth) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar. There are 88 days left to end the year.

Events

23: In the Chinese Empire, the city of Chang'an is plundered by forces opposed to the Xin Dynasty.
1134: In Belgium, a cyclic mare generates a flood that creates the Zwin channel, which connects the city of Bruges to the North Sea.
1302: The First Byzantine-Venezuelan War ends with a peace treaty.
1535: In England, the Coverdale Bible is printed, the first to be translated into English.
1540: In Mexico the villa of San Francisco de Campeche is founded.
1582: In Rome, Pope Gregory XIII decrees the Gregorian calendar to replace the Julian calendar; the night of Thursday, October 4, 1582 gave way to Friday, October 15.
1824: Mexico promulgates the first Federal Constitution of the Republic.
1830: Belgium declares its independence from the Netherlands.
1837: Colonel José Antonio Vidaurre and his accomplices, the authors of the Motín de Quillota, are shot in Chile.
1853: the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire, beginning the Crimean War.
1863: in Huahuaxtla, Xochitlán de Vicente Suárez: Sierra Norte de Puebla, the indigenous leader Juan Francisco Lucas at the head of 250 natives of Xochiapulco defeats a column of 600 French zuavos, in the "Batalla del Río Apulco", in the framework of the Second French intervention in Mexico.
1878: In Argentina the law that authorizes the allocation of games for the Argentine Army in the so-called "Campaña del Desierto", led by Julio Argentino Roca, is approved in Congress.
1895: in Rhode Island, United States Open golf.
1910: King Manuel II of Portugal arrives in the UK, after having been overthrown by a republican revolution.
1910: Bermuda adopts its new flag.
1912: near Masaya (Nicaragua), liberal revolutionaries and conservatives led by General Benjamin Zeledón (Nicaraguan national hero) face in the battle of the hills Coyotepe and La Barranca to the marines occupying the country and Nicaraguan mercenaries of La Constabularia, loyal to the conservative government of Adolfo Díaz Recinos.
1934: in Spain, the president of the Council of Ministers Alejandro Lerroux ordered the formation of government to the CEDA. This will give rise to the October 1934 Revolution.
1940: In Brénnero, Italy, in the framework of the Second World War, are Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
1945: In the framework of World War II, General Douglas MacArthur proclaims the law of civil liberties in Japan.
1949: There are serious floods in El Salvador and Guatemala.
1956: IBM discloses the IBM 305 RAMAC, the first commercial computer that used mobile head hard drive (magnetic drive unit) as secondary storage.
1957: the Soviet Union orbits the SputnikThe first artificial satellite on Earth.
1958: the first transatlantic air service with passengers is opened by British Airways between London and New York.
1959: The Soviet Union launches Moon Probe 3.
1963: in Cuba, Hurricane Flora runs through the eastern region over the current provinces of Las Tunas, Granma, Holguín and Camagüey. Although the winds were not extraordinarily strong, the rains (1800 mm in 72 hours) caused large floods and caused 1050 deaths.
1965: Pope of the Catholic Church Paul VI visits the United Nations.
1966: in southern Africa, Lesoto is independent of the British Empire by becoming part of the Commonwealth.
1978: In Paraguay, the CBVP was founded.
1979: In Spain, the Government ratified the Human Rights Convention.
1986: in Malaga, Spain, the Virgin of the Dolores would be crowned.
1990: The United States and the Soviet Union agree on conventional disarmament in Europe.
1991: Madrid signed the agreement that declared Antarctica “natural reserve for peace and science”.
1994: the Chinese and American governments agree on non-proliferation of missiles.
1995: the anime series Neon Genesis Gospeln.
1997: Cristina de Borbón, Infanta de España y hija menor de los Reyes de España se casa en Barcelona con Iñaki Urdangarin.
2006: The Congress of the Argentine Nation punishes the Law on Integral Sexual Education
2007: in the national park of Tsolofelo (Botsuana) the repatriated corpse of the Negro de Bañolas is buried, the embalmed corpse of a male of the San ethnicity (called pejoratively “bosquimano”), which since 1916 was exhibited as a tourist attraction at the Darder de Bañolas (Spain).
2009: Martin Palermo turned a headline from almost 40 meters into "La Bombonera", in a match that Boca Juniors won Vélez Sarsfield for 3 to
2011: In the United States the iPhone 4S is on sale, one day before Steve Jobs died.
2014: about 70 miles east of the town of Saint Augustine (United States), the Coast Guard rescues a certain Reza Baluchi in the middle of the sea, who sought to reach the Bermuda Islands by flying in a balloon inflated with hydrogen.
2015: In Argentina the first presidential debate of its political and democratic history is held.
2021: Facebook and other social networks suffer from a Cyber attack, causing losses of approximately $6 billion for the company, theft of Personal Information of more than 1500 million users and the worldwide downfall of networks for 7 consecutive hours, being the worst in recent history.
2021: In Tijuana, Mexico a storm again occurs after 24 years.

Births

1160: Adela de France, queen french, daughter of Louis VII (f. 1221).
1178: Teresa of Portugal, Portuguese aristocrat, Queen of Leon (f. 1250).
1289: Louis X, French king (f. 1316).
1379: Henry III, king of Castile and Lion (f. 1406).
1515: Luke Cranach the Young, German painter (f. 1586).
1524: Francisco Vallés, Spanish doctor (f. 1592).
1528: Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (f. 1599).
1542: Roberto Belarmino, Italian religious and inquisitor, canonized by the Catholic Church, responsible for the execution of Giordano Bruno (f. 1621).
1550: Charles IX, Swedish king (f. 1611).
1570: Péter Pázmány, Cardinal Catholic Hungarian (f. 1637).
1577: Guido Bentivoglio, Italian Catholic cardinal (f. 1644).
1585: Ana de Habsburg-Gonzaga, Austrian aristocrat (f. 1618).
1607: Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish playwright (f. 1648).
1626: Richard Cromwell, British politician, son of Oliver Cromwell (f. 1712).
1657: Abad Ciccio (Francesco Solimena), Italian Baroque painter (f. 1747).
1716: James Lind, British physician (f. 1794).
1720: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian engraver (f. 1778).
1746: Francisco de Saavedra, Spanish politician (f. 1819).
1759: Louis François Antoine Arbogast, a French politician and mathematician (f. 1803).
1768: Francisco José de Caldas, Colombian military (f. 1816).
1776: Mariano Lagasca, Spanish botanist (f. 1839).
1777: Francisco de la Lastra, Chilean military (f. 1852).
1796: Francisco Poveda Armenteros, a Cuban poet (f. 1881).
1797: Jeremias Gotthelf, Swiss writer (f. 1854).
1799: Augustin Saint-Hilaire, French botanist (f. 1853).
1802: Adolphe Niel, French general (f. 1869).
1814: Jean-François Millet, French painter (f. 1875).
1819: Francesco Crispi, Italian politician (f. 1901).
1822: Rutherford B. Hayes, American politician, President of the United States between 1877 and 1881 (f. 1893).
1836: Juliette Adam, French writer (f. 1936).
1836: Piet Cronje, a South African military (f. 1911).
1837: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, British writer (f. 1915).
1840: Viktor Knorre, Russian astronomer (f. 1919).
1841: Prudente de Morais, Brazilian politician, 3.o president (f. 1902).
1841: Mary Sofia of Bavaria, queen consort of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies (f. 1925).
1846: Achille Luchaire, medieval historian and French philologist (f. 1908).
1853: Armando Palacio Valdés, a Spanish writer (f. 1938).
1854: Michael Pupin, mathematician, physical and Serbian inventor (f. 1935).
1856: Manuel Reina Montilla, Spanish writer (f. 1905).
1860: Francisco Vázquez Gómez, a Mexican doctor and politician (f. 1933).
1861: Frederic Remington, American painter (f. 1909).
1868: Marcelo T. de Alvear, politician and Argentine president (f. 1942).
1872: Alexander von Zemlinsky, director of Austrian orchestra and composer (f. 1942).
1879: Benjamin Zeledon, lawyer, politician and military, Nicaraguan national hero (f. 1912).
1881: Walther von Brauchitsch, German marshal (f. 1948).
1882: Francisco Goitia, Mexican painter (f. 1960).
1884: Felix Gouin, a French politician (f. 1977).
1886: Erich Fellgiebel, German general (f. 1944).
1888: Friedrich Olbricht, German general (f. 1944).
1890: Benjamin Freedman, American Jewish entrepreneur (f. 1984).
1891: Francisco Tamayo Pacheco, a Peruvian politician (f. 1957).
1892: Engelbert Dollfuss, a Austrian politician and statesman (f. 1934).
1892: Luis Trenker, austro-Italian filmmaker (f. 1990).
1894: Józef Beck, Polish politician (f. 1944).
1895: Buster Keaton, American filmmaker (f. 1966).
1895: Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (f. 1934).
1895: Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (f. 1944).
1896: Francisco R. Almada, a Mexican politician and researcher (f. 1989).
1899: Franz Jonas, Austrian politician, president of Austria between 1965 and 1974 (f. 1974).
1902: Roberto Airaldi, Argentine actor (f. 1977).
1903: Ernst Kaltenbrunner, SS general, head of the Gestapo and the central security office of the Reich (RSHA) (f. 1946).
1903: John Atanasoff, an American computer pioneer (f. 1995).
1906: Liber Falco, Uruguayan writer (f. 1955).
1906: Pacho Galán, a Colombian musician and composer (f. 1988).
1912: Francisco de Asís Cabrero, Spanish architect (f. 2005).
1912: Joaquín Vallejo Arbeláez, civil engineer and Colombian mines (f. 2005).
1914: Brendan Gill, American film critic, theatre and architecture (f. 1997).
1914: Pedro F. Quintanilla, Mexican politician (f. 1992).
1915: Silvina Bullrich, an Argentine writer (f. 1990).
1916: Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Russian physicist (f. 2009).
1916: George Sidney, American filmmaker (f. 2002).
1917: Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter (f. 1967).
1917: María Teresa Sesé, a Spanish writer.
1917: Yákov Pávlov, famous Russian soldier (f. 1981).
1918: Fukui Kenichi, Japanese chemist, nobel chemistry award in 1981 (f. 1998).
1921: Francisco Morales Bermúdez, Peruvian military, president of Peru between 1975 and 1980 (f. 2022).
1921: Gianni Poggi, Italian tenor (f. 1989).
1922: Francisca Adame Hens, a Spanish activist for the recovery of historical memory and poet.
1923: Antón Cañellas, a Spanish politician (f. 2006).
1923: Zinaída Smirnova, Soviet military physician (f. 1991)
1924: Charlton Heston, an American actor (f. 2008).
1926: Miguel Espinosa, Spanish writer (f. 1982).
1927: Virginia Luque, Argentinean actress and singer (f. 2014).
1928: Javier Basilio, Spanish journalist (f. 1992).
1931: Richard Rorty, American philosopher (f. 2007).
1937: Violeta Rivas, Argentine singer and actress.
1937: Franz Vranitzky, Austrian chancellor.
1938: Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, nobel chemistry award in 2002.
1939: Lucero Galindo, Colombian actress (f. 2013).
1940: Silvio Marzolini, footballer and Argentine coach.
1941: Anne Rice, American writer (f. 2021).
1942: Alvaro del Amo, Spanish writer, playwright and filmmaker.
1942: Johanna Sigurdardottir, the first Icelandic minister.
1943: Buddy Roemer, American politician (f. 2021).
1943: Edwin Schal, a Surinamese footballer.
1943: Daniel Mendoza, Argentine journalist (f. 1992).
1944: Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer (f. 2006).
1946: Susan Sarandon, American actress.
1947: Fernando Betancourt, historian, Romanist and outstanding Colombian academic.
1947: Jim Fielder, U.S. bassist, Blood, Sweat & Tears.
1947: Ramón Búa, Spanish footballer (f. 1985).
1948: Linda McMahon, American professional and political free struggle magnate.
1949: Armand Assante, American actor.
1950: Ramón Lis, Spanish footballer (f. 2015).
1950: Francisco Araiza, Mexican tenor.
1951: Truck Robinson, American ex-ballooncestist.
1952: Franco Volpi, Italian philosopher (f. 2009).
1953: Josep Cuní, Catalan journalist.
1953: Tchéky Karyo, a French actor.
1953: Andreas Vollenweider, Swiss musician.
1955: Jorge Valdano, Argentine soccer player.
1955: Luis Herrero, Spanish journalist.
1956: Hans van Breukelen, Dutch footballer.
1956: Christoph Waltz, Austrian and German actor.
1957:
- Bill Fagerbakke, American actor.
- José Manuel Villalpando César, Mexican attorney.
1959: Chris Lowe, British key player, from the band Pet Shop Boys.
1959: Patxi López, Spanish politician.
1961: Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese-sleeved drawer.
1961: Juan Francisco Ordóñez, guitarist and Dominican composer.
1961: Silvina Garré, cantautora argentina.
1961: Jon Secada, Cuban singer.
1963: Marcelo Buquet, Uruguayan actor.
1963: A. C. Green, American basketball player.
1964: Claudia Fontán, an Argentine actress.
1964: Francis Magalona, actor, rapper and Filipino singer (f. 2009).
1965: Yevgeny Kaspersky, Russian computer entrepreneur.
1965: Fidel Nadal, Argentine musician and singer of reggae.
1965: Michiko Neya, Japanese voice actress.
1966: Federico D'Elía, an Argentine actor.
1967: Liev Schreiber, American actor.
1967: Fabio Zavarse, Venezuelan military.
1970: David de Jorge, Spanish cook.
1971: Brian Transeau (BT), American music producer and DJ.
1971: Pablo Trapero, Argentine filmmaker.
1972: Kurt Thomas, American basketball player.
1974: Gonzalo Aloras, Argentine musician.
1974: Paco León, Spanish actor and director.
1975: Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian footballer.
1975:Sandra Barneda, journalist, presenter and Spanish writer.
1976: Mauro Camoranesi, Italian footballer.
1976: Alicia Silverstone, American actress.
1977: Lola Berthet, Argentine actress.
1979: Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress.
1980: Me'Lisa Barber, American athlete.
1980: Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer.
1980: Giovanni Federico, German footballer of Italian origin.
1980: James Andrew Jones, American basketball player.
1980: Motoki Takagi, Japanese voice actor.
1981: Joseba Usabiaga, Spanish actor.
1981: Ilhan Omar, American-Somali policy.
1983: Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player.
1984: Lena Katina, Russian singer, t.A.T.u.
1985: Joseba Garmendia, Spanish footballer.
1986: Yuridia, Mexican singer.
1987: Ribair Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer.
1988: Derrick Rose, American basketball player.
1988: Melissa Benoist, American singer and actress.
1989: Dakota Johnson, American actress and model.
1989: Lil Mama, rapper and American songwriter.
1989: Stacey Solomon, British singer.
1989: Ramón Folch Frigola, Spanish footballer.
1990: Brent Kallman, American footballer.
1991: Marijose Salazar, Mexican actress.
1991: Leigh-Anne Pinnock, singer, Little Mix band.
1995: Jeonghan, South Korean singer, member of SEVENTEEN
1994: Ignazio Boschetto, Italian singer, of the band Il Volo.
1997: Nikola Vlašić, Croatian footballer.
1998: Mykola Shaparenko, Ukrainian footballer.
1998: Moussa Wagué, Senegalese footballer.
1999: Marcin Bułka, Polish footballer.
2000: Lunay, Puerto Rican singer.

Deaths

1052: Vladimir of Novgorod, electo prince of the Republic of Novgorod (n. 1020).
1227: Abu Muhammad al-Adil, caliph almohade between 1224 and 1227 (n. 1170).
1250: Herman VI of Baden, German aristocrat (n. 1226).
1305: Kameyama Tennō, Japanese emperor (n. 1249).
1497: John of Aragon and Castile, Spanish prince (n. 1478).
1582: Teresa of Jesus, a Spanish religious and holy writer (n. 1515).
1638: Francisco Jacinto de Saboya, French aristocrat (n. 1632).
1669: Rembrandt, a Dutch painter (n. 1606).
1747: Amaro Pargo, a Spanish trader and courtier (n. 1678).
1798: Antoine de Chézy, French engineer (n. 1718).
1800: Johann Hermann, French physician and naturalist (n. 1738).
1808: Francisco Primo de Verdad y Ramos, a Mexican lawyer (n. 1760).
1820: Claudine Picardet, chemistry, mineralogist, meteorologist and French translator (n. 1735).
1837: José Antonio Vidaurre, Chilean military (n. 1798).
1851: Manuel Godoy, aristocrat and Spanish politician (n. 1767).
1864: Jasmin, French poet (n. 1798).
1872: Vladimir Dal, Russian physician and linguist (n. 1801).
1878: Manuel María Gándara, Mexican politician, ten times governor of the state of Sonora (n. 1801).
1890: Catherine Booth, British religious (n. 1829).
1892: Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde, Venezuelan poet (n. 1846).
1903: Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (n. 1880).
1904: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor (n. 1834).
1912: Benjamin Zeledon, lawyer, politician and military, Nicaraguan national hero (n. 1879).
1915: Karl Staaff, Swedish politician (n. 1860).
1918: Joseph Engling, a German seminarian, belonging to the Schoenstatt Movement (n. 1898).
1925: Carmelo Echegaray, writer and Spanish historian (n. 1865).
1935: Jean Beraud, French Impressionist painter (n. 1849).
1936: José Gafo, priest, politician and Spanish trade unionist (n. 1881).
1936: Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, Swiss linguist (n. 1861).
1944: Al Smith, American politician (n. 1873).
1947: Max Planck, German physicist, nobel physics award in 1918 (n. 1858).
1951: Willie Moretti, Italian criminal (n. 1894).
1951: Henrietta Lacks, an involuntary donor of HeLa cell immortal cultivation (n. 1920).
1953: Manuel Aguirre Berlanga, a Mexican lawyer and politician (n. 1887).
1961: Max Weber, American painter and poet (n. 1881).
1966: Susy Leiva, singer of Argentine tangos (n. 1933).
1966: Heitor dos Prazeres, composer, singer and Brazilian painter (n. 1898).
1970: Janis Joplin, American singer (n. 1943).
1974: Anne Sexton, American poet (n. 1928).
1975: Pepe Biondi, Argentine actor and humorist (n. 1909).
1976: Juan María de Araluce Villar, notary and Spanish politician (n. 1917).
1980: Sihugo Green, American basketball player (n. 1933).
1982: Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (n. 1932).
1984: Osvaldo Terranova, Argentine actor (n. 1924).
1989: Graham Chapman, British comic (n. 1941).
1990: Jill Bennett, British actress (n. 1931).
1992: Denny Hulme, a New Zealand motor racing pilot (n. 1936).
1994: Florence Gwendolen Rees, zologa and parasitologa galesa (n. 1906).
1995: Arturo García Buhr, Argentine actor (n. 1905).
1995: Víctor Levi Sasso, professor, civil engineer and Panamanian writer, first rector of the Technological University of Panama (nian 1931).
1997: Gunpei Yokoi, creator of the series Metroid (from Nintendo) and the Game & Watch consoles, Game Boy and Virtual Boy (n. 1941).
1999: Grim (Erik Brodreskift), Norwegian black metal drummer (n. 1969).
1999: Mariano Rubio, Spanish economist (n. 1931).
2000: Michael Smith, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993 (n. 1932).
2003: Carlos Alconada Aramburú, a radical Argentine politician, minister of the dictatorship (n. 1920).
2005: Mike Gibbins, drummer of the Badfinger band (n. 1949).
2006: Riccardo Pazzaglia, Italian writer (n. 1926).
2007: Carlos Llamas, journalist and Spanish radio announcer (n. 1953).
2009: Mercedes Sosa, Argentinean singer (n. 1935).
2010: Alfonso Grados Bertorini, a Peruvian journalist and politician (n. 1925).
2010: Norman Wisdom, British comic actor (n. 1915).
2010: Concepción Llaguno Marchena, Spanish chemistry (n. 1925).
2010: Ana María Barrenechea, writer, linguist and literary critic of Argentina. (n. 1913).
2013: María Elena Sagrera, Argentine actress (n. 1931).
2013: Vo Nguyen Giap, general and political Vietnamese (n. 1911).
2014: Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician (n. 1951).
2014: Joan Molina, Spanish actor (n. 1940).
2014: Paul Revere, vocalist of the band Paul Revere and The Raiders (n. 1938).
2016: Mario Almada, Mexican actor (n. 1922).
2016: Juan de Ribera Berenguer, a Spanish painter (n. 1935).
2019: Diahann Carroll, American actress, model and singer (n. 1935).
2020: Kenzō Takada, a Japanese designer known as "Kenzo" for his house of clothes and perfumes (n. 1939).

Celebrations

World Day of Animals
Inter-American Day of Broadcasting
Cinnamon Roll Day (Sweden and Finland)
Argentina:
- Flander's Day
ChileChile:
- Chilean Music and Music Day
ColombiaColombia:
- Poet Day
SpainSpain:
- Celebrate feast and feast in honor of San Francisco de Assisi in the following towns:
  - Andalusia
    - Albox (Almeria). Albuñan (Granada). Aldeire (Granada). Algatocín (Malaga). Arroyo del Ojanco (Jaén). Ferreira (Granada). Jubrique (Malaga). Peñarrodada (Berja, Almería). Turre (Almeria).
  - Aragon
    - Sangarrén (Huesca). Lumpiaque (Zaragoza): Feast in honour of Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Maximino
  - Castilla-La Mancha
    - Cabins of the Sagra (Toledo)
  - Castilla y León
    - Valdearcos (Santas Martas, León)
  - Catalonia
    - Jesus (Tortosa, Tarragona)
  - Extremadura
    - Millanes (Cáceres). San Francisco de Olivenza (Olivenza. Badajoz)
  - Community of Madrid
    - Guadarrama
  - Valencian Community
    - Crevillente (Alicante). La Granja de la Costera (Valencia): Festivals in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, of the Divine Aurora and of the Christ of Victory. Naquera (Valencia). Oliva (Valencia). Polop (Alicante)
- Celebrate the following towns:
  - Ahigal (Cáceres): Feast in honor of the Christ of the Remedies
  - Idoy (Esteríbar, Navarre)
  - Urdaniz (Esteríbar, Navarre)
  - Valverde de los Ajos (Bayubas de Arriba. Soria)
LesotoLesoto:
- Independence Day
MozambiqueMozambique:
- Day of Peace and Reconciliation
Dominican RepublicDominican Republic:
- National Day of Astronomer