On this day in History - Oct. 04

0610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, otherthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
1226 - Saint Francis of Assisi dies (b. 1181)
1250 - Herman VI, Margrave of Baden dies
1289 - King Louis X of France was born (d. 1316)
1305 - Emperor Kameyama dies (b. 1249). Emperor of Japan
1379 - King Henry III of Castile was born (d. 1406)
1515 - Lucas Cranach the Younger was born (d. 1586). German painter.
1532 - Francisco de Toledo was born. Spanish theologian and philosopher.
1535 - The first complete English language Bible is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
1542 - Robert Bellarmine was born (d. 1621). Italian Jesuit, theologian and saint.
1550 - King Charles IX of Sweden was born (d. 1611)
1562 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus was born (d. 1647). Danish astronomer.
1570 - Peter Pazmany was born (d. 1637). Hungarian cardinal and statesman.
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.
1582 - Teresa of Avila dies (b. 1515). Spanish mystic writer and saint. She co-founded with John of the Cross (1542-1591) the Order of Discalced (barefoot) Carmelites
1597 - Sarsa Dengel dies (b. 1550). Emperor of Ethiopia
1607 - Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla was born. Spanish dramatist.
1625 - Jacqueline Pascal was born (d. 1661). French child prodigy and sister of Blaise Pascal.
1626 - Richard Cromwell was born (d. 1712). Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1646 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel dies (b. 1586). English statesman.
1660 - Francesco Albani dies (b. 1578). Italian painter.
1669 - Rembrandt dies (b. 1606). Dutch painter and etcher (Steel Masters, Night Watch) .
1676 - O Cardeal Benedeto Odescalchi é eleito papa com o nome de Inocêncio XI
1680 - Pierre-Paul Riquet dies. French engineer and canal builder
1687 - Robert Simson was born (d. 1768). Scottish mathematician.

1699 - Nasce, em Lisboa, Francisco Vieira de Matos (Vieira Lusitano) (d. 13 Ago 1783). Pintor português.

1740 (ou 1742) - Franz Joseph Müller von Reichenstein was born († 12 Oct 1825). Austrian minerologist who discovered the element Thelurium
1743 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll dies (b. 1678). Scottish soldier.
1749 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck dies (b. 1711). Austrian soldier.
1754 - Tanacharison dies. Catawba Indian chief
1777 - Battle of Germantown - Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe
1785 - David Brearly dies (b. 1703). Delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention.
1801 - Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla was born. President of Costa Rica (1844)
1814 - Jean-François Millet was born (d. 1875). French painter.
1821 - John Rennie dies (b. 1761). Scottish engineer.
1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes was born (d. 1893). 19th President of the United States.
1824 - Mexico becomes a republic
1830 - Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands
1851 - Manuel de Godoy dies (b. 1767). Spanish statesman
1858 - Michael Pupin was born (d. 1935). Serbian-born telephone pioneer and author.
1859 - Karl Baedeker dies (b. 1801). German author and publisher.
1861 - Frederic Remington was born (d. 1909). Painter.
1862 - Edward Stratemeyer (one of his pen names was Laura Lee Hope) was born (d. 10 May 1930). American author. He created the Hardy Boys, Rover Boys, Nancy Drew and the Bobbsey Twins.
1865 - Jose Maria Perez de Urdininea dies. President of Bolivia (18 Apr 1828 -02 Aug 1828).
1868 - Máximo Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear Pacheco was born. President of Argentine (1922-1928).
1877 - Razor Smith was born (d. 1946). English cricketer.
1877 - Pancho Villa [Doroteo Arango] was born (d. 1923). Mexican revolutionary rebel
1880 - Damon Runyon was born (d. 1946). Writer.
1880 - Jacques Offenbach dies (b. 1819). German-born composer.
1881 - Walther von Brauchitsch was born (d. 1948). German Commander-in-Chief.
1883 - First run of the Orient Express linking Istanbul, Turkey, to Paris by rail.
1883 - First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
1887 - Fundação da cidade de Monte Azul (no Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil).
1891 - Assis Chateaubriand was born († 1968). Brazilian journalist and politician
1892 - Engelbert Dollfuss was born (d. 1934). Austrian politician.
1895 - Buster Keaton was born (d. 1 Feb 1966). American comedian, actor. (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Hollywood Clowns, Man in the Silk Hat, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, When Comedy was King, Sunset Boulevard, God’s Country, Doughboys, The Saphead). Grandfather of actor Michael Keaton.
1895 - The first U.S. Open Mens' Golf Championship run by the United States Golf Association was played on a nine-hole course in Newport, Rhode Island.
1895 - Hattie McDaniel was born. Academey award actress (Gone With the Wind)
1895 - Richard Sorge was born († 1944). URSS spy.
1897 - Manuel Luís Osório dies (b. 1808). Brazilian militar, heroe of Paraguay war
1902 - Prudente de Morais dies (b. 1841). Brazilian President
1903 - John Vincent Atanasoff was born (d. 1995). American computer pioneer.
1903 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner was born (d. 1946). German military officer.
1904 - Frédéric Bartholdi dies (b. 1834). French sculptor (Statue of Liberty).
1907 - Alfredo Keil dies (b. 1854). Portuguese archeologist, art collector and music composer ( A Portuguesa).
1908 - Fundação do Sport Club São Paulo
1910 - Início da revolução republicana em Portugal depõe o rei D. Manuel II

1910 - Morre por suicídio (ao julgar que a revolução falhara) Carlos Cândido dos Reis (n. 1852). Almirante português, republicano, chefe carbonário, liderou a revolta republicana de 1910.

1910 - Bermuda: adopted the flag.
1914 - Jim Cairns was born (d. 2003). Australian politician.
1916 - Vitaly Ginzburg was born. Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1918 - Kenichi Fukui was born († 1998). Japanese chemist.
1921 - Francisco Morales Bermudez Cerruti was born. President of Peru
1924 - Charlton Heston was born. Academy Award-winning actor: Ben-Hur [1959]; In the Mouth of Madness, A Thousand Heroes, Tombstone, El Cid, Earthquake, The Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes, Khartoum, Airport ’75, Midway, Omega Man, Antony & Cleopatra, True Lies.
1928 - Alvin Toffler was born. American author (Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave).
1933 - Esquire magazine was published for the first time.
1935 - Jean Béraud dies (b. 1849). French impressionist painter.
1938 - Kurt Wüthrich was born. Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 - Anne Rice was born. American writer (Interview with a Vampire).
1941 - Jackie Collins was born in London. Actress and author. Her books included “The world Is Full of Married Men (1968), “Stud” (1969), “Bitch” (1979) and “Deadly Embrace” (2002).
1942 - Karl W. Richter was born. American Aviator.
1942 - Álvaro del Amo was born. Spanish dramatist and film director.
1943 - H. Rap Brown was born. American civil rights activist
1944 - Al Smith dies (b. 1873). Presidential candidate and Governor of New York.
1946 - Barney Oldfield dies (b. 1878). American automobile pioneer.
1946 - Susan Sarandon was born. American actress
1947 - Ann Widdecombe was born. British politician
1947 - Max Planck dies (b. 1858). German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1918.
1949 - Armand Assante was born. American actor: Mambo Kings, Hoffa, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Blind Justice, Fatal Instinct, Trial by Jury, Private Benjamin, Jack the Ripper, The Lords of Flatbush.
1950 - Alan Rosenberg was born. Actor: The Last Temptation of Christ, The Preppie Murder, L.A. Law, Witch Hunt, Cybill, Chicago Hope, The Guardian.
1951 - Willie Moretti dies (b. 1894). American gangster.
1953 - Tchéky Karyo was born. Turkish-born actor.
1955 - Jorge Alberto Valdano was born. Argentine football player.
1957 - Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1958 - Fifth Republic of France established.
1959 - Tony Meo was born. English snooker player.
1959 - Inauguração da Base Aérea de Monte Real - Portugal
1960 - Afrika Bambaataa was born. American musician.
1960 - An Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-188 Electra flying from Boston crashes killing 62 people after a bird strike.
1961 - Jon Secada was born. Cuban-born singer
1961 - Kazuki Takahashi was born. Japanese author and artist
1963 - A.C. Green was born. Basketball star
1963 - Robert Schuman dies. Politician father of European Union.
1964 - Harpo Marx dies. American comedian ( Marx brothers)
1966 - Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
1967 - Liev Schreiber was born. American actor
1967 - Marcus Bentley was born. British voice actor
1969 - Natalino Otto dies (b. 1912). Italian singer.

1969 - Morre Guilherme Rebelo de Andrade. Arquitecto português. Prémio Valmor 1939

1970 - Janis Joplin dies from a drug overdose (b. 1943). American singer (Down on Me, Pearl ; Every Little Piece of My Heart; Me and Bobby McGee).
1976 - Alicia Silverstone was born. American actress (Clueless, The Babysitter, Batman & Robin, Blast from the Past).
1979 - Rachael Leigh Cook was born. American actress
1980 - Me'Lisa Barber was born. American track and field sprint athlete
1980 - Sarah Fisher was born. American race car driver
1982 - Glenn Gould dies (b. 1932). Canadian pianist.
1982 - Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr dies. President of Irak (1968-1979)
1983 - Hooters restaurant first opened in Clearwater, Florida
1983 - Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph, driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
1984 - Lena was born. Russian musician (t.A.T.u.)
1985 - Laranjeiro é elevado a freguesia (concelho de Almada)
1988 - Jim Bakker indicted for fraud.
1989 - Graham Chapman dies (b. 1941). British comedian ( Monty Python)
1989 - Secretariat dies (b. 1970). American race horse.
1989 - Fawaz Younis, a Lebanese hijacker convicted of commandeering a Jordanian jetliner in 1985 with two Americans aboard, was sentenced in Washington to 30 years in prison.
1991 - The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was opened for signature.
1992 - An El Al Boeing 747-200F crashes into 2 apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 38 on the ground. See Bijlmerramp
1992 - Assinado em Roma o Acordo Geral de Paz, entre o governo de Moçambique e a RENAMO, que pôs fim a 16 anos de guerra
1992 - Dennis Hulme dies. New Zealand F1 car racer.
1993 - Doom press-release version is made available to journalists for review.
1993 - At least five US soldiers die and two Blackhawk helicopters are shot down in a firefight with Mogadishu warlords (Somalia).
1993 - Russian constitutional crisis of 1993: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders tanks to storm the Russian parliament building.
1997 - Otto Ernst Remer dies (b. 1912). Nazi general
1997 - Gunpei Yokoi dies (b. 1941). Japanese game developer.
1998 - Leafie Mason of Hughes Springs, Texas is murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz. She is Angel's second victim in his second incident.
1998 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso is reelected President of Brazil with 50.3% of the vote in early returns vs. 35.6% for Luiz Inacio da Silva of the Workers Party
1999 - Erik Brødreskift dies. Black Metal Musician
2001 - 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.
2002 - Alphonse Chapanis dies. Founder of ergonomics.
2002 - Gwen Araujo dies, murdered in an act of transphobia
2003 - Sid McMath dies (b. 1912). Governor of Arkansas.
2003 - Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, were killed, and 51 others were wounded.
2004 - SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
2004 - Gordon Cooper dies (b. 1927). Astronaut.
2004 - Início das transmissões do canal de TV RTP Memória
2005 - Marks the first day that the Vanadu rideshare van did not run in King County, WA
Australian Labour Day (ACT, NSW, & SA, 2004: first Monday of October).
Lesotho's Independence Day
Feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi in the Roman Catholic Church.
Feast day of Saint Amun in the Roman Catholic Church.
Ramadan begins in 2005 (Islam)
World Animal Day