Historical Events  -  October 4

1535 : Miles Coverdale’s English translation of the Bible was published.

1824 : Mexico adopted a new constitution and became a republic.

1927 : Gaston Borglum began sculpting Mount Rushmore.

1940 : Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at Brenner Pass.

1943 : In World War II, the US captures the Solomon Islands.

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

1957 : 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.

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

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

2006 : Julian Assange launched WikiLeaks.

 

Famous Birthdays   – October 4  

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

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.

1884: Ramchandra Shukla, Indian historian and writer.

1904: Tiruppun Kumaran, Indian revolutionary.

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

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

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

1946: Susan Sarandon, American activist, and actress.

1951: Madhavi Mudgal, Indian classical dancer.

1997: Rishabh Pant, Indian cricketer.

 

Death Anniversaries   – October 4

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

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

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

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

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

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