Historical Events on October 4

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• 1209 Pope Innocent II crowns German king Otto of Wittelsbach
• 1227 Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
• 1363 End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, one of the largest naval battles in history with 850,000 taking part (approx.)

• 1535 The Coverdale Bible, the first complete Bible to be published in English, is printed in Antwerp with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale [1]
• 1537 1st printing in England of complete English-language Bible, the "Matthew's Bible", with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale (an update of the earlier "Coverdale Bible") [exact month/day unclear] [1]
• 1571 -13] Synod of Emden, Calvinist leaders establish the Dutch Reformed Church.

• 1636 Battle at Wittstock, Brandenburg: Sweden beat Ferdinand III
• 1636 In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony's 1st law drafted
• 1648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes America's 1st volunteer fire service

• 1693 Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
• 1712 Utrecht banishes poor Jews
• 1725 Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.

• 1779 Fort Wilson Riot takes place

• 1824 Mexico becomes a republic
• 1830 Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
• 1834 Franz Grillparzer's "Der Traum ein Leben" premieres in Vienna
• 1853 Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire starting the Crimean War after various disagreements including Russian occupation of the Ottoman controlled Danubian Principalities

• 1862 Battle of Corinth ends
• 1864 National black convention meets in Syracuse, New York
• 1864 New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms
• 1873 Toronto Argonauts Football Club (CFL) forms as Argonaut Rowing Club rugby-football squad; oldest existing pro sports team in North America still using original name
• 1880 University of California founded in Los Angeles, California
• 1881 Edward Leveaux patents automatic player piano
• 1883 First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.

• 1895 1st US Open Men's Golf, Newport GC: Englishman Horace Rawlins wins inaugural event; beats Willie Dunn of Scotland by 2 strokes

• 1900 In a final confrontation, around 4,000 Ashantis are defeated by the British in the Gold Coast (Ghana)
• 1901 Charlie Barr skippered Columbia (US) beats Shamrock II (UK), 3-0 on New York City Harbour in 11th America's Cup yachting challenge series
• 1906 Chicago Cubs beat Pittsburg Pirates, 4-0 to end MLB season at 116-36 with .763 winning percentage; unmatched since
• 1910 Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda.
• 1910 Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England
• 1911 1st escalator installed on the London Underground at Earl's Court Station
• 1913 Freddy Wilson of Regina Roughriders kicks 10 singles in 21-3 win over Saskatoon Rugby Club
• 1914 Dardanelles: French & British fleet bombards Turkish forts
• 1915 Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established
• 1916 Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time
• 1917 British assault on Broodseinde, France

• 1921 League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians
• 1921 Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected President of Free State of Fiume
• 1922 Protocol for the Reconstruction of Austria, between the government of Austria and the governments of Great Britain, France, Italy and Czechoslovakia, for reconstructing the Austrian economy, signed in Geneva, Switzerland
• 1923 Young Stribling ostensibly beats Mike McTigue on points in Columbus, Georgia for world light-heavyweight boxing title; referee Harry Ertle later calls fight a draw, claims coerced by promoters to award fight to Stribling; McTigue retains title

• 1926 Dahlia is officially designated as San Francisco city flower
• 1927 Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore (works on till 1941)
• 1928 KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet
• 1931 Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts
• 1931 Juan Esteban Montero becomes President of Chile
• 1932 Anti-semite Julius Gombos forms new government in Hungary
• 1933 Esquire magazine is 1st published
• 1936 Italian lire devalued
• 1939 Last Polish troops surrender
• 1940 12 German aircraft shot down above England

• 1940 French Vichy regime proclaims end of "Statute of the Jews"
• 1942 German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad
• 1943 Corsica freed by Free French
• 1943 German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence)
• 1944 British troops land on Greek mainland
• 1948 Cleveland Indians beat Boston Red Sox, 8 - 3, in a one-game playoff to decide the AL pennant; keys are the pitching of Gene Bearden and hitting of Lou Boudreau
• 1948 World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft
• 1949 American Contract Bridge League votes 58½% to keep blacks out
• 1949 United Nations' permanent NYC headquarters is dedicated

• 1955 Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul
• 1956 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
• 1957 Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario
• 1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, the 1st artificial Earth satellite into elliptical low Earth orbit
• 1957 TV sitcom "Leave It to Beaver" debuts on CBS
• 1958 French Fifth Republic is established
• 1958 Transatlantic commercial jet passenger service began (BOAC)

• 1959 Netherlands equal best performance against neighbours Belgium; win, 9-1 in soccer friendly at De Kuip, Rotterdam; Piet van der Kuil & Faas Wilkes score 3 apiece
• 1959 USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
• 1960 Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
• 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962 USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300m
• 1963 -8] Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba & Haiti
• 1963 Gambia achieves full internal self-government
• 1964 -7] Hurricane Hilda, kills 38 in La, Miss & Ga
• 1964 3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81
• 1964 Boston Patriots' kicker Gino Cappelletti lands 6-from-6 field goals and 3-from-3 conversions in 39-10 win v Denver Broncos at Bears Stadium, Denver
• 1964 Italian Autostrada del Sol opens at Milan-Naples

• 1965 USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon
• 1966 Dutch Cardinal Bernardus Johannes Alfrink presents New Catechism
• 1966 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• 1966 Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
• 1967 Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
• 1968 A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) delegation meet with the Derry March organisers and try to have the march cancelled; eventually it was decided to go ahead with the march.
• 1969 Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Brooklyn Myrtle Beach
• 1969 UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
• 1970 Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma
• 1970 Jochen Rindt of Austria posthumously clinches Formula 1 World Drivers Championship at the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen when contender Jacky Ickx finishes 4th; Rindt killed in a practice accident at the Italian GP at Monza 5/9/70
• 1970 Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages
• 1970 WFYI TV channel 20 in Indianapolis, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1971 Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World
• 1971 KMPH TV channel 26 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1971 USSR performs underground nuclear test

• 1973 Hans of Manens ballet "Adagio Hammerklavier" premieres in Amsterdam

• 1976 Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
• 1976 Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers
• 1976 US Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns after telling a racial joke

• 1978 Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I
• 1978 Pier 39 opens in San Francisco
• 1979 Hugh Leonards "Life" premieres in Dublin
• 1979 Typhoon Tip forms near Pohnpei in Micronesia, would go on to be the most intense and largest tropical cyclone then ever recorded
• 1979 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1980 ABC premiere of Saturday futuristic fantasy cartoon "Thundarr the Barbarian"

• 1981 Meadowlands Arena opens in Rutherford, New Jersey

• 1983 Richard Noble driving Thrust2 reaches new land speed record of 650.88 mph (1,047.49 km/h) at Black Rock Desert, Nevada
• 1985 Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA
• 1985 Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia
• 1985 Shi'ite Muslims claim to have killed hostage William Buckley

• 1986 Queen Beatrice installs dam at Oosterschelde
• 1986 Rachel Oliver (Mass), 20, crowned 19th Miss Black America

• 1987 First "Scab Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players as a result of players strike; chiefly related to the expiration of 1982 Collective Bargaining Agreement; players returned October 15
• 1987 Winnipeg CFL defensive back James Jefferson scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception; scores both on laterals in Blue Bombers' 47-14 win v Hamilton Tiger-Cats
• 1988 Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid
• 1989 MLB San Francisco Giants 1st baseman Will Clark hits first NLCS grand slam since 1977 in 11-3 win v Chicago Cubs; Clark goes 4-for-4 with 2 HRs to tie NLCS RBI record (6) for an entire series in less than 4 innings
• 1989 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1990 Regional elections held in East Germany

• 1991 Delta Center in Salt Lake City Utah

• 1991 San Jose Sharks play first NHL game in franchise history, a 4-3 loss in Vancouver; native Californian Craig Coxe scores club's first goal while Jeff Hackett makes an impressive 48 saves
• 1991 The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
• 1991 Whiteland Janice, driven by Mike Lachance, wins Kentucky Futurity
• 1992 1st time AL East & West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor & Oak
• 1992 El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die
• 1992 Miami Dolphin Louis Oliver returns record tying interception 103 yards
• 1992 The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.

• 1994 7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen, flood kills 18+

• 1994 Soyuz TM-20 launches
• 1995 Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over Mariners
• 1996 BPAA US Bowling Open by Dave Husted
• 1996 BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Liz Johnson
• 1996 Left wing Mike Donnelly becomes first player in NHL history to play for all 3 New York teams (Sabres, Rangers & Islanders) when he suits up for the NY Islanders in a 1-0 loss in Los Angeles
• 1996 Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi breaks record for fastest hundred in one-day cricket history; in first ODI innings, Afridi savages Sri Lanka for 102 in KCA Centenary Tournament match in Nairobi; reaches 100 in 37 balls
• 1997 Second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company with $17.3 million in cash taken
• 1998 Australian motorcycle racer Mick Doohan wins the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island to clinch his 5th world 500cc championship; all 5 titles are won with Honda

• 1999 Rain prevents play on the final day of the 3rd cricket Test between Sri Lanka and Australia in Colombo; despite 105 from Ricky Ponting, Sri Lanka wins first ever Test series v Australia

• 2001 Brendan Shanahan scores a hat trick in Red Wings 4-3 OT win at San Jose; becomes second player in NHL history to score an opening-night hat trick twice in his career

• 2001 Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
• 2003 Jockey Jerry Bailey surpasses his own single season record for North American purse earnings ($19,271,814) set in 2002; wins aboard Sightseek in Beldame Stakes & Birdstone in Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park
• 2003 Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
• 2003 Red Raiders' quarterback B.J. Symons sets a Big 12 Conference record with 8 touchdown passes, leading Texas Tech to a convincing 59-28 win over Texas A & M
• 2003 Ten thousand people participate in "Rites of Ancestral Return" the reinternment of African American ancestral remains at the African Burial Ground in Manhattan [1]
• 2003 Trainer Bobby Frankel saddles Sightseek to victory in the Beldame Stakes at Belmont Park; Frankel's 23rd Grade I stakes winner of the year, breaking D. Wayne Lukas' 1987 record of 22
• 2004 SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight
• 2005 "All the Right Reasons", fifth studio album by Nickelback, is released
• 2005 Palace of the Arts - the world's tallest opera house and last major structure of the City of Arts and Science's complex, designed by Santiago Calatrava, opens in Valencia, Spain [1]

• 2008 On This Day (then HistoryOrb.com) receives its first major overhaul and redesign
• 2009 George Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement defeats Greece's governing New Democracy party in an electoral landslide.

• 2012 19 people are killed after being buried by a landslide in Yunnan, China

• 2012 Adam Ondra completes the first ascent of the Change in Norway, the world's first-ever 9b+ (5.15c) route
• 2012 Jordan’s King Abdullah dissolves parliament in preparation for new elections
• 2012 Turkey’s parliament approves cross-border military operations in Syria
• 2013 German singer Helene Fischer releases "Farbenspiel", most successful album ever by a German female artist, over 2.4 million sold

• 2017 Chinese pianist Lang Lang plays Carneige Hall one-handed due to injury with 14 year-old Maxim Lando playing his left hand for Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue"
• 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for their work on cryo-electron microscopy

• 2019 Fuel subsidies end in Ecuador after four decades, prompting nationwide protests and President Lenín Moreno to declare 60-day state of emergency

• 2021 Global outage of Facebook and its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, for six hours
• 2021 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for discovering receptors for temperature and touch
• 2021 Three years worth of rain (14 inches or 300 mm) falls in 12 hours in city of Al Khaburah, Oman, in the wake of tropical cyclone Shaheen [1]
• 2022 Noble Prize for Physics won by Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states [1]

• 2023 21 people are killed after a bus crashes off a bridge and plunges 15m (50ft) at Mestre, near Venice, Italy [1]
• 2023 Colombian army apologies for murder of 6,402 civilians and falsely passing them off as left-wing guerrillas to boost their kill rate 15 years after armed conflict with Farc [1]

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