October 4: Mid-Autumn Festival (Chinese calendar, 2017)
Sputnik 1
- 1876 – Texas A&M University opened as the first public institution of higher education in the US state of Texas.
- 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.
- 1957 – Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1 (replica pictured), the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, was launched by an R-7 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
- 2003 – A suicide bomber killed 21 people and injured more than 50 others inside the Maxim restaurant in Haifa, Israel.
- 2010 – The dam holding a waste reservoir in western Hungary collapsed, freeing 1 million cubic metres (1,300,000 cu yd) of red mud, which flooded nearby communities and killed at least nine people.
Gabriele Paleotti (b. 1522) · Agneta Matthes (b. 1847) · Henrietta Lacks (d. 1951)
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