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Events on the 4th of October in history

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04 Oct 2023 Rebels capture and sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. They kill and decapitate the emperor, Wang Mang, two days later.
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04 Oct 0610 Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
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04 Oct 1209 Pope Innocent II crowns German King Otto of Wittelsbach
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04 Oct 1227 Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
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04 Oct 1302 A peace treaty between the Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice ends the Byzantine–Venetian War (1296–1302).
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04 Oct 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.
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04 Oct 1511 Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.
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04 Oct 1535 1st full English translation of the Bible printed in Switzerland
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04 Oct 1535 The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
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04 Oct 1539 King Henry VIII and Anna of Kleef marry
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04 Oct 1582 Last Julian calender day in Spain / Portugal / pontifical states
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04 Oct 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.
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04 Oct 1597 The first Guale uprising begins against the Spanish missions in Georgia.
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04 Oct 1636 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
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04 Oct 1636 Battle at Wittstock, Brandenburg: Sweden beat Ferdinand III
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04 Oct 1636 The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
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04 Oct 1648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
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04 Oct 1675 Christian Huygens patents pocket watch
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04 Oct 1693 Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
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04 Oct 1712 Utrecht banishes poor Jews
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04 Oct 1725 Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
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04 Oct 1767 Prince Willem V marries Prussian Princess Wilhelmina
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04 Oct 1777 Battle of Germantown
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04 Oct 1777 Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
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04 Oct 1779 The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
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04 Oct 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).
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04 Oct 1824 Mexico becomes a Republic
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04 Oct 1824 Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
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04 Oct 1830 Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
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04 Oct 1830 Creation of the Kingdom of Belgium after separation from the Netherlands.
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04 Oct 1853 Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
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04 Oct 1854 Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair
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04 Oct 1862 Battle of Corinth ends
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04 Oct 1864 National black convention meets (Syracuse NY)
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04 Oct 1864 New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms
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04 Oct 1873 Toronto Argonaut Football Club forms
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04 Oct 1876 Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
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04 Oct 1880 University of California founded in Los Angeles
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04 Oct 1881 Edward Leveaux patents automatic player piano
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04 Oct 1883 First run of the Orient Express.
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04 Oct 1883 First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
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04 Oct 1895 1st US Golf Open: Horace Rawlins shoots a 173 at Newport Golf Club - Rhode Island
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04 Oct 1895 Horace Rawlins wins 1st US Open golf tournament (Newport RI)
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04 Oct 1895 The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
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04 Oct 1900 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Problem of Thor Bridge" (BG)
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04 Oct 1904 1st day of NYC subway, 350,000 people ride 9.1 mile tracks
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04 Oct 1906 Chicago Cubs win their 116th game (116-36 .763) of year
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04 Oct 1910 Portugal becomes a Republic, King Manuel II flees to England
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04 Oct 1913 Brooklyn Dodger Jake Daubert earns a new Chalmers auto as NL MVP
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04 Oct 1913 Freddy Wilson of Regina Roughriders kicks 10 singles in a game
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04 Oct 1914 Dardanellen (French and English) fleet bombs Turkish forts
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04 Oct 1915 Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah is established
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04 Oct 1917 British assault on Broodseinde, France
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04 Oct 1917 World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
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04 Oct 1918 Musical "Sometime" with Mae West premieres in New York City
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04 Oct 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.
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04 Oct 1921 League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians
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04 Oct 1922 For 1st time, entire World Series broadcast over radio (WJZ & WGY)
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04 Oct 1922 Protocol of Genevia signed: Austria gains independence
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04 Oct 1923 Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for shortest amount of time (3 hrs). Referee overturns decision
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04 Oct 1924 New York Giants become 1st team to appear in 4 consecutive World Series
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04 Oct 1926 Dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower
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04 Oct 1927 Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
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04 Oct 1928 25th World Series begins, New York Yankees vs. St. Louis Cardinals
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04 Oct 1928 KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet
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04 Oct 1931 Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts
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04 Oct 1931 Juan Esteban Montero becomes President of Chile
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04 Oct 1932 Clark Griffith announces Walter Johnson will be manager of Senators
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04 Oct 1932 Russian Author Mikhail Bulgakov marries Yelena Sergeyevna
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04 Oct 1933 Esquire magazine is 1st published
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04 Oct 1936 Italian lire devalued
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04 Oct 1936 Record 66,669 at Yankee Stadium for 4th game of World Series
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04 Oct 1936 In the East End of London, marches staged by British fascists and various anti-fascist organizations result in violent clashes between them in what becomes known as the Battle of Cable Street.
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04 Oct 1939 Last Polish troops surrender
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04 Oct 1940 12 German aircrafts shot down above England
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04 Oct 1940 Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in Alps
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04 Oct 1940 French Vichy-regime proclaims end of "Statut of the Juifs"
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04 Oct 1940 Wrestling returns to Madison Square Garden after 12 year lay off
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04 Oct 1940 Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
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04 Oct 1941 Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
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04 Oct 1942 German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad
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04 Oct 1943 Corsica freed by Free French
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04 Oct 1943 German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence)
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04 Oct 1943 World War II: U.S. captures the Solomon Islands from the Japanese.
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04 Oct 1944 British troops land on Greek continent
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04 Oct 1944 St. Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance
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04 Oct 1947 Negro League World Series, New York Cubans beat Cleveland Buckeyes, 6-5
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04 Oct 1948 Indians beat Red Sox, 8-0, in 1st AL playoff game
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04 Oct 1948 World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft)
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04 Oct 1950 French troops vacate Cla Afraid Vietnam
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04 Oct 1951 In opening World Series game, Giant Monte Irvin steals home in 1st inn
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04 Oct 1952 "Top Banana" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 356 performances
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04 Oct 1953 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:17:39.4)
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04 Oct 1953 Mickey Mantle hits a grand slam in World Series
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04 Oct 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees in 7
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04 Oct 1955 Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul
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04 Oct 1957 "Leave It to Beaver, " debuts on CBS
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04 Oct 1957 USSR launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite
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04 Oct 1957 Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
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04 Oct 1957 Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
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04 Oct 1957 Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS.
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04 Oct 1958 12th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-3 at Montreal
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04 Oct 1958 5th French Republic forms
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04 Oct 1958 Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began (BOAC)
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04 Oct 1958 Fifth Republic of France is established.
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04 Oct 1959 1st World Series game played west of St. Louis (in LA)
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04 Oct 1959 Dmitri Sjostakovitch 1st Cello concert premieres in Leningrad
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04 Oct 1959 LA Dodgers set World Series attendance record at 92,394
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04 Oct 1959 Netherlands beats Belgium 9-1
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04 Oct 1960 Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
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04 Oct 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.
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04 Oct 1962 USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300m
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04 Oct 1963 Gambia achieves full internal self-government
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04 Oct 1963 Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
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04 Oct 1964 10th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills
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04 Oct 1964 3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81
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04 Oct 1964 Italian Autostrada del Sol opens at Milan-Naples
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04 Oct 1964 Phils bomb Reds 10-0 as both teams finish one game behind St. Louis
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04 Oct 1965 "Pickwick" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 56 performances
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04 Oct 1965 Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN)
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04 Oct 1965 USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon
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04 Oct 1965 Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first Pope to visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere.
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04 Oct 1966 Dutch Cardinal Alfrink presents New Catechism
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04 Oct 1966 Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
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04 Oct 1966 Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
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04 Oct 1967 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature Yanks, Giants or Dodgers
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04 Oct 1967 Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
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04 Oct 1969 Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Brooklyn Myrtle Beach el
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04 Oct 1969 UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
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04 Oct 1970 Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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04 Oct 1970 Kansas City Chiefs Jan Stenerud kicks 55-yard field goal
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04 Oct 1970 Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages
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04 Oct 1970 WFYI TV channel 20 in Indianapolis, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
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04 Oct 1971 KMPH TV channel 26 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
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04 Oct 1972 Ted Williams manages his final game as Rangers lose to Royals, 4-0
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04 Oct 1973 Hans of Manens ballet "Adagio Hammerklavier" premieres in Amsterdam
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04 Oct 1974 John Lennon releases "Walls & Bridges" album
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04 Oct 1974 Founding of the New Democracy party in Greece.
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04 Oct 1976 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke
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04 Oct 1976 Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers
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04 Oct 1976 Official launch of the InterCity 125 high speed train.
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04 Oct 1977 Pier 39 opens in San Francisco
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04 Oct 1978 Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I
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04 Oct 1979 Hugh Leonards "Life, " premieres in Dublin
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04 Oct 1981 Donna Caponi Young / Kathy Whitworth wins Portland Ping Team Golf Champ
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04 Oct 1981 Meadowlands Arena opens in New Jersey
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04 Oct 1981 Pasakevi Kouna of Greece (9) is youngest International gymnastics participant
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04 Oct 1982 Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of German FR
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04 Oct 1983 Richard Noble reaches record 1019 km/h in jet-powered car
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04 Oct 1983 Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
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04 Oct 1984 Yanks clinch AL East
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04 Oct 1985 Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia
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04 Oct 1985 Shite Moslems claim to have killed hostage William Buckley
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04 Oct 1985 The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
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04 Oct 1986 New York Yank Dave Righetti saves doubleheader for then record 46 saves
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04 Oct 1986 Queen Beatrice installs dam at Oosterschelde
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04 Oct 1986 Rachel Oliver (Mass), 20, crowned 19th Miss Black America
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04 Oct 1987 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players
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04 Oct 1987 Blues Jays lose final 7 games allowing Tigers to win AL pennant
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04 Oct 1987 James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception. (He scored on laterals)
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04 Oct 1988 Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid
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04 Oct 1988 U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
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04 Oct 1989 Giants Will Clark hits 1st NLCS grand slam since 1977
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04 Oct 1990 "Stand Up Tragedy" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 13 performances
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04 Oct 1990 Regional elections held, in what is East Germany
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04 Oct 1991 Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah
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04 Oct 1991 NHL New York Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier
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04 Oct 1991 San Jose Sharks lose 4-3 to Vancouver Canucks in their 1st NHL game
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04 Oct 1991 Whiteland Janice, driven by Mike Lachance, wins Kentucky Futurity
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04 Oct 1991 The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
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04 Oct 1992 "Anna Karenina" closes at Circle in the Square Theater NYC after 46 performances
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04 Oct 1992 "Real Inspector Hound" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
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04 Oct 1992 1st time AL East and West champs have same record (96-66) - Toronto and Oakland
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04 Oct 1992 El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die
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04 Oct 1992 Miami Dolphen Louis Oliver returns record tying interception 103 yards
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04 Oct 1992 The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
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04 Oct 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.
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04 Oct 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.
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04 Oct 1994 7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen, flood kills 18+
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04 Oct 1994 Keith Moore is charged with stealing $5,000,000 from Sting
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04 Oct 1994 Soyuz TM-20 launches
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04 Oct 1995 29th Country Music Association Award: Krauss Jackson win
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04 Oct 1995 Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over Mariners
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04 Oct 1996 BPAA US Bowling Open by Dave Husted
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04 Oct 1996 Shahid Afridi scores century in 37 balls for Pakistan vs. Sri Lanka
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04 Oct 1997 Farm Aid 10 concert cancelled due to weak ticket sales
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04 Oct 1997 The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. A Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million stolen cash.
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04 Oct 2001 NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
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04 Oct 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. Seventy-eight people are killed.
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04 Oct 2003 Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: Twenty-one Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
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04 Oct 2004 SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
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04 Oct 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 severely contaminated.
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