Historical Events on October 4.

1. World Animal Day

2. 1535, 4th October: Miles Coverdale’s English translation of the Bible was published.

3. 1824, 4th October: Mexico adopted a new constitution and became a republic.

4. 1927, 4th October: Gaston Borglum began sculpting Mount Rushmore.

5. 1940, 4th October: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at Brenner Pass.

6. 1943, 4th October: In World War II, the US captures the Solomon Islands.

7. 1952, 4th October: An external device called pacemaker developed by Dr. Paul Zoll of the Harvard Medical School was fitter to David Schwartz to control his heartbeat.

8. 1957, 4th October: The Russians had taken a step closer to discovering the possible uses of satellites by successfully launching the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I.

9. 1959, 4th October: Soviet Russia’s Lunik-3 spacecraft orbited the Moon and took photographs of the invisible part of the Moon.

10. 1983, 4th October: Richard Noble created the world record for his Thrust-2 at 1019 km / h in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.

11. 2006, 4th October: Julian Assange launched WikiLeaks.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on October 4.

1. 1822: Rutherford Hayes, the 19th President of the United States.

2. 1857: Shyamji Krishna Varma, an Indian revolutionary fighter, patriot, lawyer, and journalist who founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House, and The Indian Sociologist in London.

3. 1884: Ramchandra Shukla, Indian historian and writer.

4. 1904: Tiruppun Kumaran, Indian revolutionary.

5. 1913: Martial Celestein, Haiti’s first prime minister.

6. 1928: Alvin Toffler, an American journalist, and writer.

7. 1937: Jackie Collins, an English writer, and actress.

8. 1946: Susan Sarandon, American activist, and actress.

9. 1951: Madhavi Mudgal, Indian classical dancer.

10. 1997: Rishabh Pant, Indian cricketer.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on October 4.

1. 1669: Rembrandt, Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. 

2. 1904: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, creator of the Statue of Liberty.

3. 1947: Max Planck, German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.

4. 1993: John Cawas, an Indian stuntman, and actor in Hindi movies.

5. 2000: Michael Smith, British-born Canadian biochemist, businessman, and Nobel Prize winner.

6. 2015: Edita Nageswara Rao, an Indian film producer in Telugu cinema.

4-October-1847

Pratapsingh Bhosle, Maratha King, died.

4-October-1857

Shyamji Krishna Varma, freedom fighter, nationalist and patriot, was born at Mandvi village, Gujarat.

4-October-1907

Riots in Calcutta.

4-October-1953

India elected to the UN Trusteeship Council.

4-October-1972

Raman Vijayan, Indian soccer (Football) player, was born in Kandramanikam at Pasumpon, Tamil Nadu.

4-October-1974

India in apartheid protest refuses to play South Africa in Davis Cup finals.

4-October-1977

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, External Affairs Minister of India, addressed the UNO General Assembly in Hindi language.

4-October-1977

Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister, was released off the charges of corruption.

4-October-1986

Helicoptor Corporation of India established.

4-October-1992

D. M. Sutar, freedom fighter and senior journalist, died.

4-October-1993

PM surveys the quake-hit villages and sanctioned Rs. 50 crore.

4-October-1996

Delhi court issues non-bailable warrant against PVN Rao and three others in the St. Kitts forgery case.

4-October-1997

Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2D), fourth satellite in INSAT-2 series, became inoperable due to power bus anomaly. This satellite had capabilities such as mobile satellite service, business communication and television outreach beyond Indian boundaries.

4-October-1997

J & K Assembly passed the Ladakh Hill Council Bill.

4-October-1997

Two top executives of Turkish firm 'Karsan', accused in Rs. 133 crore urea import scam case, were remanded to police custody.

4-October-1999

Rest of India won the Zal Irani Trophy in Bangalore.

4-October-1999

Kerala High Court orders Election Commission to booth-wise counting. The EC is likely to move the Supreme Court against this order.

4-October-2000

Kashmir has been the cause of tensions between India and Pakistan and foreign interference should be stopped,'' said Russian President Vladimir Putin at the joint session of both the Houses of Parliament.