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

## Births

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

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

## Halidays

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