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October 4: Day of the Week
October 4, 2024 is the 278th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 88 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.
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Here’s the October calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
October 4 Historical Event(s)
1511
Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.
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.
1693
Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
1779
The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
1963
Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
1965
Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.
1983
Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
1997
The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
2004
SpaceShipOne‘’wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
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 severly contaminated.
Who were born on October 4?
1585
Anna of Tyrol, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1618)
1625
Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy (d. 1661)
1841
Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (d. 1912)
1868
Marcelo T. de Alvear, Argentine politician (d. 1942)
1877
Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
1903
Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician, historian and genealogist (d. 1993)
1949
Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director
1967
Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin, Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer
1967
Marcus Bentley, British voice actor
1980
Mellisa Hollingsworth, Canadian skeleton racer
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