October 4<\/p>\n
1535 \u2013 The Coverdale Bible is printed, named for one of the English translators, Myles Coverdale.<\/p>\n
1582 \u2013 The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by [drum roll]Pope Gregory<\/p>\n
1597 \u2013 Spanish Governor, Admiral Gonzalo M\u00e9ndez de Can\u00e7o, begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now the state of Georgia.<\/p>\n
1669 \u2013 Rembrandt van Rijn dies in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic<\/p>\n
1777 \u2013 At Germantown, Pennsylvania, American troops under George Washington are forced to retreat from the city after engaging British troops under William Howe.<\/p>\n
1853 \u2013 The Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.<\/p>\n
1883 \u2013 The Orient Express begins service between Paris and Constantinople.<\/p>\n
1895 \u2013 Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men’s Golf Championship.<\/p>\n
1918 \u2013 An explosion at the T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Company in Sayreville, New Jersey kills an estimated 100 people; estimated because the employee records were destroyed in the blast and many victims were consumed in the blast and resultant fires.<\/p>\n
1927 \u2013 Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.<\/p>\n
1957 \u2013 Sputnik 1<\/em> is launched into orbit by the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra<\/em>, crashes on takeoff from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, after running into a large flock of birds, killing 62 of the 72 passengers and crew on board, those surviving due to being thrown clear of the plane on impact into Winthrop Bay.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour, driving the Thrust2<\/em> jet car, at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada which will stand for 14 years until his ThrustSSC<\/em> jet car breaks the speed of sound.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16 year long civil war in Mozambique.<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 U.S. forces are relieved by U.N. UNISOM forces and exit the Bakarra market area of Mogadishu, Somalia<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 Mojave Aerospace Ventures’ SpaceShipOne<\/em> wins the $10 million Ansari X Prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable crewed spacecraft into space twice within two weeks. 2009 \u2013 The Battle of Kamdesh in Nuristan Province Afghanistan ends with the Combat Outpost Keating being nearly destroyed by attacking Taliban forces resulting in the deaths of 8 U.S. service members. For heroism in action, 2 of the surviving service members are awarded the Medal of Honor.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 During Operation Obsidian Nomad<\/em>, a combined task force of American and Nigerien Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo, Niger, resulting in the deaths of 4 Nigerien, and 4 U.S. service members.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 Bubba Wallace becomes the first African-American Driver in the modern era of NASCAR to win a major race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 4 1535 \u2013 The Coverdale Bible is printed, named for one of the English translators, Myles Coverdale. 1582 \u2013 The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by [drum roll]Pope Gregory 1597 \u2013 Spanish Governor, Admiral Gonzalo M\u00e9ndez de Can\u00e7o, begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now the state of Georgia. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60320"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96486,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60320\/revisions\/96486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOn the same day, astronaut Gordon Cooper, the last U.S. astronaut to fly alone into space, dies at his home in Ventura, California, age 77.<\/p>\n