4 October

The 4t o October is the 277t day o the year (278t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 88 days bidin.

 Events 
 1582 – Last day before the Roman Catholic kirk implements the Gregorian Calendar in the Sooth o Europe. The next day is 15 October.
 1824 – Mexico becomes a federal republic.
 1830 – Belgium declares unthirldom frae the Netherlands.
 1910 – End o the Monarchy in Portugal.
 1943 – Warld War II: Unitit States forces recaptur the Solomon Islands.
 1957 – The Soviet Union launches the first satellite, Sputnik 1.
 1965 – Pape Paul VI speaks at the Unitit Naitions General Assembly.
 1966 – Lesotho gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
 1992 – An El Al jumbo jet crashes in Amsterdam.
 2000 – The last Rover Mini car is made in Birmingham, Ingland.
 2006 – Lesotho chynges its banner.
 2010 – Toxic sludge escapes frae an Alumina Plant in Hungary.
 2011 – 100 fowk are kilt in a bomb attack in Mogadishu, Somalie.
 2016 – Scots-born pheesicists David J. Thouless an J. Michael Kosterlitz share the Nobel Prize in Pheesics wi Inglis-born Duncan Haldane.
 2017 – Scots biologist Richard Henderson shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry wi German-American Joachim Frank an Swiss Jacques Dubochet.

 Births 
1289 – Louis X o Fraunce (d. 1316)
1550 – Charles IX o Swaden (d. 1611)
1626 – Richard Cromwell, Inglis politeecian, Laird Protector o Ingland, Scotland an Ireland (d. 1712)
1822 – Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, an politeecian, 19t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1893)
1833 – John Anderson, Scots zoologist (d. 1900)
1892 – Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor o Austrick (d. 1934)
1895 – Buster Keaton, American actor (d. 1966)
1895 – Richard Sorge, Soviet militar intelligence afficer (d. 1944)
1903 – Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrick-German lawyer an general (d. 1946)
1916 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Roushie pheesicist (d. 2009)
1923 – Charlton Heston, American actor (d. 2008)
1942 – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Icelandic flicht attendant an politeecian, 24t Prime meenister o Iceland
1943 – Buddy Roemer, American politeecian
1946 – Susan Sarandon, American actress
1947 – Ann Widdecombe, Inglis politeecian o the Conservative an Brexit Pairties
1949 – Ally Hunter, Scots fitbawer
1956 – Christoph Waltz, Austrick actor
1964 – Yvonne Murray, Scots runner
1968 – Beverley Allitt, Inglis nourise an serial killer
1976 – Alicia Silverstone, American actress, producer, an author
1976 – Mauro Camoranesi, Argentine-Italian fitbawer
1980 – Tomas Rosicky, Czech fitbawer
1986 – Yuridia, Mexican sangster
1988 – Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovak tennis player

 Daiths 
1669 – Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch penter (b. 1606)
1743 – John Campbell, 2nt Duke o Argyll, Scots nobleman an airmy commander (b. 1680)
1747 – Amaro Pargo, Spaingie corsair (d. 1678)
1785 – Alexander Runciman, Scots penter (b. 1736)
1821 – John Rennie the Elder, Scots ceevil ingineer (b. 1761)
1942 – Donald Colman, Scots fitbawer (b. 1878)
1947 – Max Planck, German pheesicist (b. 1858)
1970 – Janis Joplin, American sangster (b. 1943)
1973 – Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8t Duke o Buccleuch, Scots peer an politeecian (b. 1894)
1993 – Jim Holton, Scots fitbawer (b. 1951)
2009 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentinian sangster an activist (b. 1935)
2013 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese politeecian (b. 1911)
2014 – Jean-Claude Duvalier, Preses o Haiti (b. 1951)
2017 – Liam Cosgrave, Erse Taoiseach (b. 1920)

 Halidays 
 Independence Day (Lesotho)
 Warld Animal Day
 St. Francis o Assisi (Roman Catholic Kirk)

Category:Days o the year