History Events on October 04

Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son.

#Omar_Ali_Saifuddien_III

American Revolutionary War: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under William Howe.

#Battle_of_Germantown

Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.

#Battle_of_Wittstock

World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.

#World_War_I

First run of the Orient Express.

#Orient_Express

Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.

#Horace_Rawlins

The current constitution of France is adopted.

#Constitution_of_France

WikiLeaks is launched.

#WikiLeaks

Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.

#Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812

Formation of the Holy League of Aragon, the Papal States and Venice against France.

#War_of_the_League_of_Cambrai

Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.

#Hurricane_Flora

Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.

#Gutzon_Borglum

Battle of Mogadishu occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two UN Peacekeepers and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians.

#Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993)

El Al Flight 1862 crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.

#El_Al_Flight_1862

The Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.

#Crimean_War

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.

#Richard_Noble

SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.

#SpaceShipOne

The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.

#Maxim_restaurant_suicide_bombing

Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

#Sputnik_1

Nine Years' War: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.

#Battle_of_Marsaglia

Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion.

#Chang'an

Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.

#13_Vendémiaire

An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.

#Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_375

Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.

#Pope_Paul_VI

Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.

#1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis

The Belgian Revolution takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands.

#Belgian_Revolution

Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.

#Basutoland

World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.

#T._A._Gillespie_Company_Shell_Loading_Plant_explosion

The Ajka plant accident Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers.

#Ajka_alumina_plant_accident

Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.

#1824_Constitution_of_Mexico

The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.

#Protocol_on_Environmental_Protection_to_the_Antarctic_Treaty

The Coverdale Bible is printed, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.

#Coverdale_Bible

The Byzantine-Venetian War comes to an end.

#Byzantine-Venetian_War_(1296-1302)

Nigerien and U.S. Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo.

The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina

The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.

The Free Software Foundation is founded.

Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.

The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.

The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.

First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.

The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.

Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now Georgia.

The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.

Battle of Lake Poyang: In one of the largest naval battles in history, Zhu Yuanzhang's rebels defeat rival Chen Youliang.