About October 4
October 4, 2024 is the 278th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 88 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 117 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.
- 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.
- 1725 –Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
- 1777 –Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
- 1779 –The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
- 1824 –Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
- 1830 –Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.
- 1876 –Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
- 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.
- 1940 –Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
- 1941 –Norman Rockwell’s Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
- 1957 –Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS.
- 1960 –Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston’s Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board.
- 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.
- 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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