About October 4
October 4, 2022 is the 277th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 88 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 110 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 4
- 1227 –Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
- 1693 –Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
- 1725 –Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
- 1795 –Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a “Whiff of Grapeshot”, using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention).
- 1883 –First run of the Orient Express.
- 1918 –An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which were still being found as of 2007.
- 1927 –Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
- 1941 –Norman Rockwell’s Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
- 1943 –World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands.
- 1957 –Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
- 1957 –Sputnik 1 is launched by the Soviet Union.
- 1966 –Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
- 1985 –Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
- 1991 –The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
- 1992 –The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
- 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.
- 2001 –NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
- 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 –Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
- 2010 –The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severly contaminated.
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