Today in History
4 October
236 births · 100 deaths · 50 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1985
Thorsten Wiedemann
German rugby union player (born 1985)
Notable Births
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Rishabh Pant
b. 1997
Indian cricketer (born 1997)
Yuju (singer)
b. 1997
South Korean singer (born 1997)
Ella Balinska
b. 1996
English actress (born 1996)
Jeonghan
b. 1995
South Korean singer (born 1995)
Kenny Clark (defensive tackle)
b. 1995
American football player (born 1995)
Mikolas Josef
b. 1995
Czech singer
Thorsten Wiedemann
b. 1985
German rugby union player (born 1985)
Bernice Johnson Reagon
b. 1942
American singer, songwriter and scholar (1942β2024)
Notable Deaths
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Billy Shaw
d. 2024
American football player (1938β2024)
Loretta Lynn
d. 2022
American country singer (1932β2022)
Clark Middleton
d. 2020
American actor (1957β2020)
KenzΕ Takada
d. 2020
Japanese-French fashion designer (1939-2020)
Dave Pike
d. 2015
American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (1938β2015)
Neal Walk
d. 2015
American basketball player
Glenn Gould
d. 1982
Canadian pianist (1932β1982)
Max Planck
d. 1947
German theoretical physicist (1858β1947)
On This Day in History
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2017
Joint Nigerien-American Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo.
United States Army Special Forces
2010
The Ajka plant accident in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers.
Ajka alumina plant accident
2006
WikiLeaks is launched.
WikiLeaks
2004
SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
SpaceShipOne
2003
The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
Maxim restaurant suicide bombing
2001
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812
1997
The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina.
October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery
1993
Battle of Mogadishu occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two UN Peacekeepers and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians.
Battle of Mogadishu (1993)