4 October
Notable Births
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
Mike Williams (wide receiver, born 1994)
b. 1994
American football player (born 1994)
Mitchell Swepson
b. 1993
Australian cricketer
Leigh-Anne Pinnock
b. 1991
English singer (born 1991)
Signy Aarna
b. 1990
Estonian footballer (born 1990)
Saki (musician)
b. 1990
Japanese musician (born 1990)
Sergey Shubenkov
b. 1990
Russian hurdler (born 1990)
Dakota Johnson
b. 1989
American actress (born 1989)
Melissa Benoist
b. 1988
American actress and singer (born 1988)
Lonnie Chisenhall
b. 1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
Caner Erkin
b. 1988
Turkish footballer (born 1988)
Evgeni Krasnopolski
b. 1988
Israeli pair skater (born 1988)
Derrick Rose
b. 1988
American basketball player (born 1988)
Marina Weisband
b. 1987
German author, psychologist and politician
Bernice Johnson Reagon
b. 1942
American singer, songwriter and scholar (1942–2024)
Notable Deaths
Billy Shaw
d. 2024
American football player (1938–2024)
Loretta Lynn
d. 2022
American country singer (1932–2022)
Clark Middleton
d. 2020
American actor (1957–2020)
Kenzō Takada
d. 2020
Japanese-French fashion designer (1939-2020)
Dave Pike
d. 2015
American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (1938–2015)
Neal Walk
d. 2015
American basketball player
Hugo Carvana
d. 2014
Brazilian actor (1937–2014)
Fyodor Cherenkov
d. 2014
Russian footballer (1959–2014)
Jean-Claude Duvalier
d. 2014
President of Haiti from 1971 to 1986
John Cloudsley-Thompson
d. 2013
British naturalist and soldier (1921–2013)
Ulric Cross
d. 2013
Trinidadian lawyer and diplomat (1917–2013)
Võ Nguyên Giáp
d. 2013
Vietnamese general and communist politician (1911–2013)
Nicholas Oresko
d. 2013
American soldier awarded Medal of Honor
Doris Belack
d. 2011
American actress (1926–2011)
Norman Wisdom
d. 2010
English actor, comedian and singer (1915–2010)
Günther Rall
d. 2009
German general and fighter pilot during World War II
Qassem Al-Nasser
d. 2007
Stanley K. Hathaway
d. 2005
27th Governor of Wyoming and Secretary of the Interior
Gordon Cooper
d. 2004
American astronaut (1927–2004)
Max Planck
d. 1947
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
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)
1993
Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.
1993 Russian constitutional crisis
1992
The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
Rome General Peace Accords
1992
El Al Flight 1862 crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
El Al Flight 1862
1991
The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty
1985
The Free Software Foundation is founded.
Free Software Foundation
1983
Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
Richard Noble
1967
Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son.
Omar Ali Saifuddien III
1966
Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
Basutoland
1965
Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
Pope Paul VI
1963
Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
Hurricane Flora
1960
Eastern Airlines flight 375 crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people of the 72 aboard.
Eastern Air Lines Flight 375
1958
The current constitution of France is adopted.
Constitution of France