About October 4
October 4, 2025 is the 277th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 88 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 136 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 4
- 610 –Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
- 1511 –Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.
- 1636 –The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
- 1725 –Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
- 1777 –Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
- 1876 –Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
- 1883 –First meeting of the Boys’ Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
- 1941 –Norman Rockwell’s Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
- 1957 –Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS.
- 1957 –Sputnik 1 is launched by the Soviet Union.
- 1963 –Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
- 1967 –Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
- 1983 –Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
- 1985 –Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
- 1988 –U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2004 –SpaceShipOne‘’wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
- 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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