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
- 1363 –End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.
- 1511 –Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.
- 1535 –The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
- 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.
- 1636 –The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
- 1693 –Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
- 1725 –Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
- 1777 –Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
- 1824 –Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
- 1830 –Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1965 –Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.
- 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 –El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
- 1992 –The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
- 2001 –NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
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