October 4 in history
Events on October 4
Notable events that happened on October 4 in past years.
- 2017
Joint Nigerien-American Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo.
Wikipedia article: United States Army Special Forces - 2004
SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
Wikipedia article: SpaceShipOne - 1993
Battle of Mogadishu occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two UN Peacekeepers and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians.
Wikipedia article: Battle of Mogadishu (1993) - 1992
El Al Flight 1862 crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
Wikipedia article: El Al Flight 1862 - 1983
Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
Wikipedia article: Richard Noble - 1963
Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
Wikipedia article: Hurricane Flora - 1957
Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
Wikipedia article: Sputnik 1 - 1925
Great Syrian Revolt: Rebels led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji capture Hama from the French Mandate of Syria.
Wikipedia article: Great Syrian Revolt - 1918
World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
Wikipedia article: T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion - 1883
First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
Wikipedia article: Boys' Brigade - 1830
The Belgian Revolution takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands.
Wikipedia article: Belgian Revolution - 1777
American Revolutionary War: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under William Howe.
Wikipedia article: American Revolutionary War - 1602
Eighty Years' War and the Anglo-Spanish War: A fleet of Spanish galleys are defeated by English and Dutch galleons in the English Channel.
Wikipedia article: Eighty Years' War - 1363
Battle of Lake Poyang: In one of the largest naval battles in history, Zhu Yuanzhang's rebels defeat rival Chen Youliang.
- 23
Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion.
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