October 4

October 4th is the 277th day of 2022. This year, it will be a Tuesday which will be in week 41. We will be the 4th of October 2022 in a month.

Libra

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What happened that day?

2010: The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severely contaminated.
2006: Wikileaks is launched by Julian Assange.
2004: SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
2003: Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: Twenty-one Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
2001: Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: A Sibir Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
1997: The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. A Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million stolen cash.
1993: Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.
1992: [El Al](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Al) Flight 1862: An El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
1992: The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
1991: The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
1985: The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
1983: Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
1967: Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, Hassanal Bolkiah.
1966: Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
1965: Pope Paul VI arrives in New York City, the first Pope to visit the Americas.
1963: Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
1960: Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people (out of 72 onboard).
1958: The current constitution of France is adopted.
1957: Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1941: Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
1936: The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
1927: Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
1918: An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey.
1917: World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
1904: IFK Göteborg was founded in Café Olivedal in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1895: The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
1883: First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
1883: First run of the Orient Express.
1876: [Texas](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas) A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
1853: The Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
1830: The Provisional Government of Belgium secedes from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
1824: Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
1795: Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence by suppressing armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
1777: Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
1693: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
1636: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
1597: The first Guale uprising begins against the Spanish missions in Georgia.
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.
1535: The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
1511: Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.
1363: End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.
1302: A peace treaty between the Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice ends the Byzantine-Venetian War (1296-1302)).
1227: Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
610: Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
AD 23: Rebels capture and sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. They kill and decapitate the emperor, Wang Mang, two days later.