October
4
Independence
Day
Lesotho : October 4 1966
Events
October 4
610
– Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at
Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor
Phocas and becomes Emperor.
1227 – Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
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.
1779 – The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
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).
1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and
becomes a federal republic.
1830 – Creation of the Kingdom of Belgium
after separation from the Netherlands.
1853 – Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares
war on Russia.
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 run of the Orient Express.
1883 – First meeting of the Boys' Brigade
in Glasgow, Scotland.
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.
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.
1943 – World War II: U.S. captures Solomon
Islands.
1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the
first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1957 – Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro
Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
1957 – Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS.
1957 – Sputnik 1 is launched by the Soviet
Union.
1958 – Fifth Republic of France is established.
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.
1963 – Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba
and Haiti.
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.
1967 – Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates
in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal
Bolkiah.
1974 – Founding of the New Democracy party
in Greece.
1976 – Official launch of the Intercity 125
High Speed Train (HST).
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.
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.
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.
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 in cash which had been taken.
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.
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 severely
contaminated.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Amun
Francis of Assisi
Petronius of Bologna.
October 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Cinnamon Roll Day or kanelbullens dag (Sweden)
Day of Peace and Reconciliation (Mozambique)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Lesotho from the United Kingdom in 1966.
The beginning of World Space Week (International)
World Animal Day (International)
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