October 4: Feast day of St. Francis of Assisi (Catholicism)
InterCity 125 train
- 1895 – The first US Open golf tournament was held on a nine-hole course at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
- 1917 – First World War: The British devastated the German defence in the Battle of Broodseinde, which prompted a crisis among the German commanders and caused a severe loss of morale in the German Fourth Army.
- 1941 – Willie Gillis, one of Norman Rockwell's trademark characters, debuted on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
- 1976 – British Rail's InterCity 125 service (pictured), the world's fastest diesel-powered train, began operations on the Western Region.
- 2003 – A suicide bomber killed 21 people and injured more than 50 others inside the Maxim restaurant in Haifa, Israel.
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