4 October
The 4t o October is the 277t day o the year (278t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 88 days bidin.
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Events
- 1582 – Last day before the Roman Catholic kirk implements the Gregorian Calendar in the Sooth o Europe. The next day is 15 October.
- 1824 – Mexico becomes a federal republic.
- 1830 – Belgium declares unthirldom frae the Netherlands.
- 1910 – End o the Monarchy in Portugal.
- 1943 – Warld War II: Unitit States forces recaptur the Solomon Islands.
- 1957 – The Soviet Union launches the first satellite, Sputnik 1.
- 1965 – Pape Paul VI speaks at the Unitit Naitions General Assembly.
- 1966 – Lesotho gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
- 1992 – An El Al jumbo jet crashes in Amsterdam.
- 2000 – The last Rover Mini car is made in Birmingham, Ingland.
- 2006 – Lesotho chynges its banner.
- 2010 – Toxic sludge escapes frae an Alumina Plant in Hungary.
- 2011 – 100 fowk are kilt in a bomb attack in Mogadishu, Somalie.
- 2016 – Scots-born pheesicists David J. Thouless an J. Michael Kosterlitz share the Nobel Prize in Pheesics wi Inglis-born Duncan Haldane.
- 2017 – Scots biologist Richard Henderson shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry wi German-American Joachim Frank an Swiss Jacques Dubochet.
Births
- 1289 – Louis X o Fraunce (d. 1316)
- 1550 – Charles IX o Swaden (d. 1611)
- 1626 – Richard Cromwell, Inglis politeecian, Laird Protector o Ingland, Scotland an Ireland (d. 1712)
- 1822 – Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, an politeecian, 19t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1893)
- 1833 – John Anderson, Scots zoologist (d. 1900)
- 1892 – Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor o Austrick (d. 1934)
- 1895 – Buster Keaton, American actor (d. 1966)
- 1895 – Richard Sorge, Soviet militar intelligence afficer (d. 1944)
- 1903 – Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrick-German lawyer an general (d. 1946)
- 1916 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Roushie pheesicist (d. 2009)
- 1923 – Charlton Heston, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1942 – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Icelandic flicht attendant an politeecian, 24t Prime meenister o Iceland
- 1943 – Buddy Roemer, American politeecian
- 1946 – Susan Sarandon, American actress
- 1947 – Ann Widdecombe, Inglis politeecian o the Conservative an Brexit Pairties
- 1949 – Ally Hunter, Scots fitbawer
- 1956 – Christoph Waltz, Austrick actor
- 1964 – Yvonne Murray, Scots runner
- 1968 – Beverley Allitt, Inglis nourise an serial killer
- 1976 – Alicia Silverstone, American actress, producer, an author
- 1976 – Mauro Camoranesi, Argentine-Italian fitbawer
- 1980 – Tomas Rosicky, Czech fitbawer
- 1986 – Yuridia, Mexican sangster
- 1988 – Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovak tennis player
Daiths
- 1669 – Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch penter (b. 1606)
- 1743 – John Campbell, 2nt Duke o Argyll, Scots nobleman an airmy commander (b. 1680)
- 1747 – Amaro Pargo, Spaingie corsair (d. 1678)
- 1785 – Alexander Runciman, Scots penter (b. 1736)
- 1821 – John Rennie the Elder, Scots ceevil ingineer (b. 1761)
- 1942 – Donald Colman, Scots fitbawer (b. 1878)
- 1947 – Max Planck, German pheesicist (b. 1858)
- 1970 – Janis Joplin, American sangster (b. 1943)
- 1973 – Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8t Duke o Buccleuch, Scots peer an politeecian (b. 1894)
- 1993 – Jim Holton, Scots fitbawer (b. 1951)
- 2009 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentinian sangster an activist (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese politeecian (b. 1911)
- 2014 – Jean-Claude Duvalier, Preses o Haiti (b. 1951)
- 2017 – Liam Cosgrave, Erse Taoiseach (b. 1920)
Halidays
- Independence Day (Lesotho)
- Warld Animal Day
- St. Francis o Assisi (Roman Catholic Kirk)
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