October 4

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on October 4. From 1900 until now. October 4 is under the sign of Libra. Famous birthdays on this day include Susan Sarandon (1946), Alicia Silverstone (1976) and Dakota Johnson (1989). Several movies were released around October 4 over the years, such as Limelight in 1952 directed by Charles Chaplin and The Devil's Advocate in 1997 directed by Taylor Hackford.
But much more happened on October 4 over the years: find out below

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2018 India–Russia relations: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in India for a summit meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (The Times of India)
2017 Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017): Hawija offensive (2017): The Iraqi Army and allied paramilitary fighters storm the ISIL-held city of Hawija in the Kirkuk Governorate. Hawija is one of the last remaining ISIL strongholds in Iraq. (BBC)
2016 Sectarianism in Pakistan: An apparent sectarian attack by two motorcyclists who open fire on a bus traveling to Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan, kills four women from Pakistan's Shia Hazara and injures two other people. (The Daily Mail), (Dawn), (Firstpost)
2015 Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Stabbing attacks carried out by Palestinians in Jerusalem's Old City kill two Israeli civilians and injures three others. As a result, Israel bans Palestinians from entering the Old City for two days unless they live there. (BBC News), (Yahoo News), (CNN)
2014 Syrian civil war: The Kurdish city of Kobane in the Raqqa governate is on the brink of catastrophe as ISIL fighters besiege the city. (The Guardian)
2013 Islamist protests in Egypt (July 2013–present):: Four people are killed after supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi clashed with opponents and security forces. (Reuters), (BBC)
2012 The Turkish parliament approves a motion authorizing cross-border military operations against Syria after Syrian forces shelled the Turkish border town of Akçakale on October 3, killing five people. (BBC)
2011 Gunmen kill 12 Shiite Muslims near the Pakistani city of Quetta in an apparent sectarian killing. (AP via ABC News)
2010 3 people killed in Pibor county of Jonglei state of Sudan. (Sudan Tribune)
2009 Shōichi Nakagawa, the former Japanese Finance Minister who resigned over apparent drunken behaviour at the 2009 G7 meeting in Rome, is found dead in Tokyo. (Japan Today) (Al Jazeera) (The Times)
2008 The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops below 10,000.
2007 United States Republican Party Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico announces that he will retire at the end of his current term due to a degenerative brain disease. (AP via Google News)
2006 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,800 for the first time rising 123.27 points, or 1.05%, finishing at 11,850.61.
2005 United States President George W. Bush expresses concern for a potential avian flu outbreak. He requests Congressional legislation permitting the military to impose a quarantine in the event of a deadly flu pandemic. (IndyStar)
2004 SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
2003 Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A Palestinian suicide bomber blows herself up in a crowded beach restaurant in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa, killing at least 19 people and wounding about two dozen, at least six seriously. Hours later Israeli helicopter gunships retaliate by attacking targets in Gaza City and Central Gaza.
2001 A hunter shoots a hole in the trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline, causing a leak of 1.1 million litres of oil into the wilderness.
1997 Farm Aid 10 concert cancelled due to weak ticket sales
1996 BPAA US Bowling Open by Dave Husted
1995 29th Country Music Association Award: Krauss Jackson win
1994 7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen, flood kills 18+
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.
1992 Anna Karenina closes at Circle in the Square Theater NYC after 46 performances
1991 Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah
1990 Stand Up Tragedy opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 13 performances
1989 Giants Will Clark hits 1st NLCS grand slam since 1977
1988 Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid.
1987 Blues Jays lose final 7 games allowing Tigers to win AL pennant
1986 New York Yank Dave Righetti saves doubleheader for then record 46 saves
1985 Henry G Perry completes 157-day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia.
1984 Yanks clinch AL East
1983 Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 1019 kph (633.468 mph), driving Thrust 2 jet-powered car at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
1982 Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of German FR
1981 Donna Caponi Young / Kathy Whitworth wins Portland Ping Team Golf Champ
1979 Hugh Leonards Life, premieres in Dublin
1978 Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I
1977 Pier 39 opens in San Francisco, California.
1976 Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers
1974 John Lennon releases Walls & Bridges album
1973 Hans of Manens ballet Adagio Hammerklavier premieres in Amsterdam
1972 Ted Williams manages his final game as Rangers lose to Royals, 4-0
1971 KMPH TV channel 26 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 Kansas City Chiefs Jan Stenerud kicks 55-yard field goal
1969 Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Brooklyn Myrtle Beach el
1967 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature Yanks, Giants or Dodgers
1966 Dutch Cardinal Alfrink presents New Catechism
1965 Pickwick opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 56 performances
1964 10th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills
1963 Gambia achieves full internal self-government.
1962 USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300m
1960 Courier 1B launched; first active repeater satellite in orbit.
1959 1st World Series game played west of St. Louis (in LA)
1958 12th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-3 at Montreal
1957 Leave It to Beaver, debuts on CBS
1955 Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating New York Yankees in 7 (World Series #52).
1953 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:17:39.4)
1952 Top Banana closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 356 performances
1951 In opening World Series game, Giant Monte Irvin steals home in 1st inn
1950 French troops vacate Cla Afraid Vietnam
1949 American Contract Bridge League votes 58.5 percent to keep blacks out.
1948 Indians beat Red Sox, 8-0, in 1st AL playoff game
1947 Negro League World Series, New York Cubans beat Cleveland Buckeyes, 6-5
1945 The Partizan Belgrade sports society is founded in Belgrade, Serbia.
1944 British troops land on Greek continent
1943 Corsica freed by Free French
1942 German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad
1941 Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
1940 12 German aircrafts shot down above England
1939 Last Polish troops surrender
1938 The Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War begin withdrawing their foreign volunteers from combat as agreed on July 5.
1937 Rabotnicki Skopje is established as a football club .
1936 Italian lire devalued
1933 Esquire magazine is 1st published
1932 Clark Griffith announces Walter Johnson will be manager of Senators
1931 Juan Esteban Montero becomes President of Chile
1928 25th World Series begins, New York Yankees vs. St. Louis Cardinals
1927 Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
1926 Dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower
1924 New York Giants become first team to appear in four consecutive World Series (World Series #21).
1923 Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for the shortest amount of time (3 hours). Referee overturns the decision.
1922 For 1st time, entire World Series broadcast over radio (WJZ & WGY)
1921 League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians
1918 Musical Sometime with Mae West premieres in New York City
1917 British assault on Broodseinde, France
1915 Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah is established
1914 Dardanellen (French and English) fleet bombs Turkish forts
1913 Brooklyn Dodger Jake Daubert earns a new Chalmers auto as NL MVP
1910 Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England.
1906 Chicago Cubs win their 116th game (116-36) of the year.
1904 1st day of NYC subway, 350,000 people ride 9.1 mile tracks
1900 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure Problem of Thor Bridge (BG)
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