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October 4th

October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in Leap years). There are 88 days remaining.

Events

1582 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15, skipping over 10 days.
1777 - Battle of Germantown - Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe
1824 - Mexico becomes a republic
1830 - Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands
1883 - First run of the Orient Express
1910 - Portugal becomes a republic. King Manuel II flees to Great Britain.
1957 - Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth
1958 - Fifth Republic of France established
1966 - Lesotho becomes independent
1988 - Jim Bakker indicted for fraud
1992 - An El Al Boeing 747-200F crashes into 2 apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 120 including 43 on the ground. See Bijlmerramp
1993 - Doom press-release version is made available to journalists for review.
1998 - Leafie Mason of Hughes Spring, Texas is murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz. She is Angel's second victim in his second incident.
2001 - A Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. 78 people are killed.

See also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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