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

Replica o Sputnik 1, launched in 1957.

2000: Rover Mini

• 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

Johanna Sigurdardottir

• 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

Banner o Lesotho

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