Editing October 4 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[AD 23]] &ndash; Rebels sack the Chinese capital [[Chang'an]] during a [[Lülin|peasant rebellion]]. 
*[[1209]] &ndash; [[Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Otto IV]] is crowned [[Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor]] of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] by [[Pope Innocent III]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Alexander | first = Michael | title = Three crises in early English history: personalities and politics during the Norman Conquest, the reign of King John, and the Wars of the Roses | publisher = University Press of America | location = Lanham, Md | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780761811886 | page=123}}</ref>
*[[1302]] &ndash; The [[Byzantine–Venetian War (1296–1302)|Byzantine–Venetian War]] comes to an end.
*[[1363]] &ndash; [[Battle of Lake Poyang]]: In one of the largest naval battles in history, Zhu Yuanzhang's rebels defeat rival Chen Youliang.
*[[1511]] &ndash; Formation of the [[War of the League of Cambrai|Holy League]] of Aragon, the Papal States and Venice against France.
*[[1535]] &ndash; The [[Coverdale Bible]] is printed, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.<ref>{{cite book|author=Henry Stevens|title=The Bibles in the Caxton celebration, MDccclxxvii, or, A bibliographical description of ... Bibles in various languages|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ThACAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA71|year=1878|pages=71}}</ref>
*[[1582]] &ndash; The [[Gregorian Calendar]] is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.
*[[1597]] &ndash; Governor [[Gonzalo Méndez de Canço]] begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now the US state of Georgia.

===1601–1900===
*[[1602]] &ndash; [[Eighty Years' War]] and the [[Anglo-Spanish War (1585)|Anglo-Spanish War]]: A fleet of Spanish [[galley]]s [[Battle of the Narrow Seas|are defeated]] by English and Dutch [[galleon]]s in the [[English Channel]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Jaques|first=Tony |title= Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8500 Battles from Antiquity Through the Twenty-first Century |volume=2|year= 2006|publisher=  Greenwood Press|isbn= 978-0-313-33536-5|page=714 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dh6jydKXikoC&q=%22jan+van+cant%22&pg=PA714}}</ref>
*[[1636]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the [[Battle of Wittstock]].
*[[1693]] &ndash; [[Nine Years' War]]: Piedmontese troops are [[Battle of Marsaglia|defeated]] by the French.
*[[1777]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: Troops under George Washington are [[Battle of Germantown|repelled]] by British troops under William Howe.
*[[1795]] &ndash; Napoleon first rises to prominence by [[13 Vendémiaire|suppressing]] counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
*[[1824]] &ndash; Mexico adopts a [[1824 Constitution of Mexico|new constitution]] and becomes a federal republic.
*[[1830]] &ndash; The [[Belgian Revolution]] takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands.
*[[1853]] &ndash; The [[Crimean War]] begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The two-day [[Second Battle of Corinth]] ends in a [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] victory, with General [[William Rosecrans]] protecting the critical rail junction of [[Corinth, Mississippi]] from [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] forces under General [[Earl Van Dorn]].<ref>{{cite book|last=White|first=Kristopher D.|date=2021|title=Battle Maps of the Civil War - The Western Theater|location=Princeton, New Jersey|publisher=Knox Press|page=22|isbn=978-1-68261-993-3}}</ref>
*[[1876]] &ndash; The [[Texas A&M University|Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas]] opens as the first public college in Texas.
*[[1883]] &ndash; First run of the ''[[Orient Express]].''
*  1883   &ndash; First meeting of the [[Boys' Brigade]] in Glasgow, Scotland.
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Horace Rawlins]] wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.

===1901–present===
*[[1917]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: The [[Battle of Broodseinde]] is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
*[[1918]] &ndash; World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and [[T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion|destroys a Shell Loading Plant]] in New Jersey.
*[[1920]] &ndash; The [[Mannerheim League for Child Welfare]], a Finnish [[non-governmental organization]], is founded on the initiative of [[Sophie Mannerheim]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hs.fi/kaupunki/helsinki/art-2000006380719.html|title=Sophie Mannerheim käveli Kalliossa ja järkyttyi: Sitten hän keksi ovelan juonen, jolla koko Suomi saatiin syytämään apua äärimmäisessä köyhyydessä eläville lapsille|first=Marjaana|last=Varmavuori|work=[[Helsingin Sanomat]]|date=January 22, 2020|access-date=September 15, 2021|language=fi}}</ref>
*[[1925]] &ndash; [[Great Syrian Revolt]]: Rebels led by [[Fawzi al-Qawuqji]] [[1925 Hama uprising|captured]] [[Hama]] from the [[Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon|French Mandate of Syria]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Khoury |first1=Philip Shukry |title=Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920–1945 |date=2014 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-5839-2 |page=171 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tvP_AwAAQBAJ&dq=Qawuqji+October+1925&pg=PA171 |access-date=20 April 2021 |language=en |quote=On 4 October 1925, a rebellious captain in the Syrian Legion, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, led a mixed force of dissident Legionnaires ...}}</ref>
*  1925   &ndash; ''[[Finnish torpedo boat S2|S2]]'', a Finnish [[Finnish S class torpedo boat|''Sokol'' class]] [[torpedo boat]], sinks during a fierce storm near the coast of [[Pori]] in the [[Gulf of Bothnia]], taking with it the whole crew of 53.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kaslib.fi/MARE/HIST/s2_1.htm|title=Torpedovene S2:n tuho 4.10.1925|first=Antero|last=Honkasalo|publisher=[[Wayback Machine]]|date=2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060830015005/http://www.kaslib.fi/MARE/HIST/s2_1.htm|access-date=October 4, 2021|archive-date=2006-08-30|language=fi}}</ref>
*[[1927]] &ndash; [[Gutzon Borglum]] begins sculpting [[Mount Rushmore]].
*[[1936]] &ndash; The [[Metropolitan Police]] and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the [[Battle of Cable Street]].
*[[1941]] &ndash; Norman Rockwell's [[Willie Gillis]] character debuts on the cover of ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]''.
*[[1957]] &ndash; ''[[Sputnik 1]]'' becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burgess |first1=Colin |last2=Hall |first2=Rex |title=The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact |date=2009 |publisher=Springer |location=Berlin |isbn=9780387848235 |page=1 |lccn=2008935694}}</ref>
*[[1958]] &ndash; The current [[constitution of France]] is adopted.
*[[1960]] &ndash; An [[Eastern Air Lines Flight 375|airliner crashes]] on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.
*[[1963]] &ndash; [[Hurricane Flora]] kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Pope Paul VI]] begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[Basutoland]] becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Omar Ali Saifuddien III]] of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son.
*[[1983]] &ndash; [[Richard Noble]] sets a new land speed record of {{Convert|633.468|mph|km/h}} at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
*[[1985]] &ndash; The [[Free Software Foundation]] is founded.
*[[1991]] &ndash; The [[Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty]] is opened for signature.
*[[1992]] &ndash; The [[Rome General Peace Accords]] end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
*  1992   &ndash; [[El Al Flight 1862]] crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
*[[1993]] &ndash; [[Battle of Mogadishu (1993)|Battle of Mogadishu]] occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two [[UN Peacekeepers]] and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians. 
*  1993   &ndash; Tanks [[1993 Russian constitutional crisis|bombard the Russian parliament]], while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.
*[[1997]] &ndash; The [[1997 Loomis Fargo Robbery in North Carolina|second largest cash robbery]] in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina.
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[Siberia Airlines Flight 1812]] crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
*[[2003]] &ndash; The [[Maxim restaurant suicide bombing]] in Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
*[[2004]] &ndash; ''[[SpaceShipOne]]'' wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
*[[2006]] &ndash; [[WikiLeaks]] is launched.
*[[2010]] &ndash; The [[Ajka alumina plant accident|Ajka plant accident]] in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers.
*[[2017]] &ndash; Joint Nigerien-American [[Special Forces (United States Army)|Special Forces]] are [[Tongo Tongo ambush|ambushed]] by [[Islamic State in the Greater Sahara|Islamic State]] militants outside the village of [[Tongo Tongo]].