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Events from History on October 04

1209 : Pope Innocent II crowns German king Otto of Wittelsbach
1518 : Henry VIII's daughter Mary marries French crown prince
1535 : 1st full English translation of the Bible printed in Switzerland
1539 : King Henry VIII & Anna of Kleef marry
1571 : -13] Synod of Emden
1582 : Last Julian calender day in Spain/Portugal/pontifical states
1636 : 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
1636 : Battle at Wittstock, Brandenburg: Sweden beat Ferdinand III
1636 : In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony's 1st law drafted
1648 : Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
1675 : Christian Huygens patents pocket watch
1712 : Utrecht banishes poor Jews
1767 : Prince Willem V marries Prussian princess Wilhelmina
1777 : Battle of Germantown
1777 : Gen George Washington's troops attacked British at Germantown Pa
1824 : Mexico becomes a republic
1830 : Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
1834 : Franz Grillparzer's "Der Traum ein Leben," premieres in Vienna
1854 : Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair
1857 : J Ferguson discovers asteroid #50 Virginia
1862 : Battle of Corinth ends
1864 : National black convention meets (Syracuse NY)
1864 : New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms
1873 : Toronto Argonaut Football Club forms
1880 : University of California founded in Los Angeles
1881 : Edward Leveaux patents automatic player piano
1883 : Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail
1885 : J Palisa discovers asteroid #251 Sophia
1895 : 1st US Golf Open: Horace Rawlins shoots a 173 at Newport GC RI
1895 : Horace Rawlins wins 1st US Open golf tournament (Newport RI)
1897 : George Bernard Shaw's "Devil's Disciple," premieres in NYC
1900 : Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Problem of Thor Bridge" (BG)
1901 : Columbia (US) beats Shamrock II (England) in 12th America's Cup
1904 : 1st day of NYC subway, 350,000 people ride 9.1 mile tracks
1906 : Chicago Cubs win their 116th game (116-36 .763) of year
1907 : Kopff discovers asteroid 650 Amalasuntha, 651 Antikleia & 3133 Sendai
1910 : Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England
1911 : 1st public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station)
1913 : Bkln Dodger Jake Daubert earns a new Chalmers auto as NL MVP
1913 : Freddy Wilson of Regina Roughriders kicks 10 singles in a game
1913 : G Neujmin discovers asteroid #768 Struveana
1914 : Dardanellen (French & English) fleet bombs Turkish forts
1915 : Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established
1916 : Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time
1917 : British assault on Broodseinde, France
1918 : Musical "Sometime" with Mae West premieres in NYC
1920 : K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #939 Isberga
1921 : League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians
1922 : For 1st time, entire World Series broadcast over radio (WJZ & WGY)
1922 : Protocol of Genevia signed: Austria gains independence
1923 : Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for
1923 : shortest amount of time (3 hrs). Referee overturns decision
1924 : NY Giants become 1st team to appear in 4 consecutive World Series
1925 : Harry Heilmann's 6 hits edges Ty Cobb .393 to .389 as batting champ
1926 : Dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower
1926 : K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1072 Malva
1928 : 25th World Series begins, NY Yankees vs St Louis Cardinals
1928 : KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet
1930 : A's Jack Quinn, 46, pitches 2 inn, is oldest to play in World Series
1931 : Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts
1931 : Juan Esteban Montero becomes president of Chile
1932 : Anti-semite Julius G”mb”s forms new govt in Hungary
1932 : Clark Griffith announces Walter Johnson will be manager of Senators
1932 : Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov marries Yelena Sergeyevna
1933 : Esquire magazine is 1st published
1936 : Italian lire devalued
1936 : Record 66,669 at Yankee Stadium for 4th game of World Series
1939 : Last Polish troops surrender
1940 : 12 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 : Adolph Hitler & Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in Alps
1940 : French Vichy-regime proclaims end of "Statut of the Juifs"
1940 : Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off
1942 : German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad
1943 : Corsica freed by Free French
1943 : German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence)
1944 : 1st All St Louis World Series, all games played at Sportsman's Park
1944 : British troops land on Greek continent
1944 : St Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance
1947 : Negro League World Series, NY Cubans beat Cleveland Buckeyes, 6-5
1948 : Indians beat Red Sox, 8-0, in 1st AL playoff game
1948 : P Shajn discovers asteroid #2108 Otto Schmidt
1948 : World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft)
1949 : American Contract Bridge League votes 58«% to keep blacks out
1949 : United Nations' permanent NYC headquarters is dedicated
1950 : French troops vacate Cla Afraid Vietnam
1951 : In opening World Series game, Giant Monte Irvin steals home in 1st inn
1952 : "Top Banana" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 356 perfs
1953 : Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:17:39.4)
1953 : Mickey Mantle hits a grand slam in World Series
1955 : Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees in 7
1955 : Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul
1956 : Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1957 : "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS
1957 : USSR launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite
1958 : 12th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-3 at Montreal
1958 : 5th French republic forms
1958 : Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began (BOAC)
1959 : 1st World Series game played west of St Louis (in LA)
1959 : Cleve Browns' Jim Brown makes club record 37 rushing attempts
1959 : Dmitri Sjostakovitch 1st Cello concert premieres in Leningrad
1959 : LA Dodgers set World Series attendance record at 92,394
1959 : Netherlands beats Belgium 9-1
1959 : USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
1960 : Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
1961 : Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1994 Shane
1961 : USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 : Whitey Ford's 3rd straight World Series shutout
1962 : USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300m
1962 : Whitey Ford's World Series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends
1963 : -8] Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba & Haiti
1963 : Gambia achieves full internal self-government
1964 : -7] Hurricane Hilda, kills 38 in La, Miss & Ga
1964 : 10th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills
1964 : 3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81
1964 : Italian Autostrada del Sol opens at Milan-Naples
1964 : Patriots' Gino Cappelletti kicks 6-of-6 field goals against Broncos
1964 : Phils bomb Reds 10-0 as both teams finish one game behind St Louis
1965 : "Pickwick" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 56 performances
1965 : Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN)
1965 : USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon
1966 : Dutch Cardinal Alfrink presents New Catechism
1966 : France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1966 : Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1967 : 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature Yanks, Giants or Dodgers
1969 : Baseball's 1st divisional playoff games, Mets beat Braves 9-5 &
1969 : Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Bkln Myrtle Beach el
1969 : Orioles beat Twins 4-3 in 12 innings
1969 : UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
1970 : Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by
1970 : KC Chiefs Jan Stenerud kicks 55-yard field goal
1970 : Umps return after 1-day walkout in quest of higher wages
1970 : WFYI TV channel 20 in Indianapolis, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 : leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1971 : Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World
1971 : KMPH TV channel 26 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1971 : USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 : L Kohoutek discovers asteroid #3475
1972 : Ted Williams manages his final game as Rangers lose to Royals, 4-0
1973 : Hans of Manens ballet "Adagio Hammerklavier" premieres in Amsterdam
1974 : John Lennon releases "Walls & Bridges" album
1976 : Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke
1976 : Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers
1977 : Pier 39 opens in SF
1977 : Purple Mt Obs discovers asteroid #2223 Sarpedon & #2363 Cebriones
1978 : C Kowal discovers asteroid #2594
1978 : Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I
1978 : T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3055
1979 : Hugh Leonards "Life," premieres in Dublin
1979 : USSR performs nuclear test
1980 : Mike Schmidt's 2-run HR clinches NL East title for Phillies
1981 : Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins Portland Ping Team Golf Champ
1981 : L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #3623
1981 : Meadowlands Arena opens in NJ
1981 : Pasakevi Kouna of Greece (9) is youngest intl gymnastics participant
1982 : Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of German FR
1983 : N G Thomas discovers asteroid #6174 Polybius
1983 : Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car
1984 : US govt closes down due to budget problems
1984 : Yanks clinch AL East
1985 : Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia
1985 : Shite Moslems claim to have killed hostage William Buckley
1986 : E Bowell discovers asteroid #3874 Stuart, #4788 Simpson, #4822 Karge,
1986 : #5105 Westerhout, #5768 Pittich & #7169
1986 : A Mrkos discovers asteroid #4823, #6266, #8001 & #8267
1986 : E F Helin discovers asteroid #4209 Briggs & #4969 Lawrence
1986 : NY Yank Dave Righetti saves doubleheader for then record 46 saves
1986 : Queen Beatrice installs dam at Oosterschelde
1986 : Rachel Oliver (Mass), 20, crowned 19th Miss Black America
1987 : 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players
1987 : Blues Jays lose final 7 games allowing Tigers to win AL pennant
1987 : James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns
1987 : without making an interception. (He scored on laterals)
1988 : A Mrkos discovers asteroid #4408 Zlata Koruna & #6825
1988 : Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid
1989 : A Takahashi & K Watanabe discover asteroid #6778
1989 : B G W Manning discovers asteroid #7239 Mobberley
1989 : Giants Will Clark hits 1st NLCS grand slam since 1977
1989 : H Debehogne discovers asteroid #7283
1989 : Osservatorio San Vittore discovers asteroid #6241 Galante
1989 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1990 : "Stand Up Tragedy" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 13 performances
1990 : Regional elections held, in what is East Germany
1991 : Delta Center in Salt Lake City Utah
1991 : NHL NY Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier
1991 : San Jose Sharks lose 4-3 to Vancouver Canucks in their 1st NHL game
1991 : Whiteland Janice, driven by Mike Lachance, wins Kentucky Futurity
1992 : "Anna Karenina" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 perfs
1992 : "Real Inspector Hound" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 perfs
1992 : 1st time AL East & West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor & Oak
1992 : 2nd Solheim Cup: Europe beats US, 11«-6« at Dalmahoy CC Scotland
1992 : El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die
1992 : Miami Dolphen Louis Oliver returns record tying interception 103 yards
1993 : Troops of pres Yelsin occupy Russian White House (parliament)
1994 : 7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen, flood kills 18+
1994 : Keith Moore is charged with stealing $5,000,000 from Sting
1994 : Soyuz TM-20 launches
1995 : 29th Country Music Assn Award: Krauss Jackson win
1995 : Division Series lead over Mariners
1995 : Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0
1996 : BPAA US Bowling Open by Dave Husted
1996 : BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Liz Johnson
1996 : Shahid Afridi scores century in 37 balls for Pakistan v Sri Lanka
1997 : Farm Aid 10 concert cancelled due to weak ticket sales
2001 : A TU-154 Passenger Plane was found crashed in the Black sea. The flight has 3 engines and 76 people on board
2001 : The Cremation of Senior Leader Sri Madhavrao Scindia was held
2001 : Pakistan said that it is satisfied with the proof that US has shown them to tell that Osama Bin Laden was involved in the recent blasts in WTC and Pentagon.
2001 : Mr. Narenda Mouli took charge as the new Chief Minister of Gujarat.

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