October 4

But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Psalm 1:2

October is:

Campaign for Healthier Babies Month Cooking, Crafts, and Home Books Month Clergy Appreciation Month Computer Learning Month Family History Month Lupus Awareness Month National AIDS Awareness Month National Breast Cancer Awareness Month National Car Care Month National Caramel Month National Communicate With Your Kid Month National Cookie Month National Crime Prevention Month

Celebrate Today:

Dick Tracey's Birthday - In 1931 Chester Gould's comic strip premiered.

Guys and Dolls Day - On the birthday of Damon Runyon, celebrate the world of New York. Runyon, who chronicled the world of Manhattan Island in his short stories, was born in 1884 in Manhattan, Kansas. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.

Piece of My Heart Day - Held on the anniversary of the 1970 death of singer, Janis Joplin.

Saint Francis of Assisi Feast Day - Patron saint of ecologists, animals and animal welfare societies. He is also patron saint of Assisi, Italy and a patron saint of Italy.

Ten-Four Day - Recognizes radio operators who use "Ten-four" to mean 'yes."

Born on this Day

• 1289: Louis X "the Quarreler", King of France
  

• 1550: Charles IX, King of Sweden
  

• 1626: Richard Cromwell, Puritan Lord Protector of England
  

• 1814: French painter of peasant life, Jean François Millet. The Gleaners, The Man with the Hoe, and The Angelus were popular prints in the 19th century.
  

• 1822: Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States, in Delaware, Ohio. See Today's History Focus
  

• 1858: English devotional writer Dorothy Frances Gurney. During her lifetime she published two volumes of verse, as well as a small devotional work entitled, 'A Little Book of Quiet.'
  

• 1861: Western-scene artist Frederick Remington
  

• 1872: Alexander Zemlinsky was born. Zemlinsky was Arnold Schoenberg's teacher, and there is clear evidence that Zemlinsky had the idea of serial music before Schoenberg did. Schoenberg not only got the credit, he also got the girl, marrying Zemlinsky's daughter.
  

• 1895: Silent film comedian Buster (Joseph F.) Keaton in Piqua, Kansas. (Sherlock, Jr. and The General)
  

• 1914: Critic Brendan Gill
  

• 1917: Comedian Jan Murray
  

• 1924: Actor Charlton Heston
  

• 1929: Country singer Leroy Van Dyke
  

• 1932: Actress Felicia Farr
  

• 1941: Author Jackie Collins
  

• 1941: Author Anne Rice
  

• 1945: Actor Clifton Davis
  

• 1946: Actress Susan Sarandon
  

• 1949: Actor Armand Assante
  

• 1950: Actor Alan Rosenberg ("Cybill")
  

• 1957: Producer Russell Simmons
  

• 1959: Musician Chris Lowe (The Pet Shop Boys)
  

• 1961: Singer Jon Secada
  

• 1970: Rock musician Andy Parle (Sapce)
  

• 1976: Actress Alicia Silverstone
  

• 1979: Actress Rachel Leigh Cook
  

• 1980: Actor Jimmy Workman ("As Good As It Gets")
  

• 1987: Actor Michael Charles Roman

Events in History on this day
  

• 1189: Capture of Gerard de Ridefort, 10th Master of the Templars, at the Siege of Acre
  

• 1209: Otto IV crowned Holy Roman Emperor
  

• 1244: The Damascus Moslems, with their allies the Templars, Hospitalers, and other Franks, march on Cairo and the Khwarismians
  

• 1530: Martin Luther wrote a letter about music. "There are doubtless a number of seeds of good in those who like music," he wrote, adding that "the devil flees song much as he flees a sermon."

• 1535: 1st complete English translation of the Bible printed by London printer Miles Coverdale, 47. He was a good translator who later served on two other translation committees. He was also popular as a Lutheran preacher.
  

• 1636: 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
  

• 1648: Peter Stuyvesant of NY establishes America's 1st volunteer firemen
  

• 1669: Death of Rembrandt
  

• 1777: American forces under General George Washington were defeated by the British in a battle at Germantown, Pennsylvania. British General Sir William Howe repels George Washington's last attempt to retake Philadelphia, compelling Washington to spend the winter at Valley Forge.
  

• 1861: The Union ship USS South Carolina captures two Confederate blockade runners outside of New Orleans, La.
  

• 1874: Kiowa leader Santanta, known as "the Orator of the Plains," surrenders in Darlington, Texas. He is later sent to the state penitentiary, where he commits suicide October 11, 1878.
  

• 1890: Mormons in Utah renounced polygamy.
  

• 1890: Catherine Booth, 61, wife of Salvation Army founder William Booth dies. Her last words were: 'The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under but over. Do not be concerned about dying; go on living well, the dying will be right.'
  

• 1895: The first US Open golf tournament was held, at the Newport Country Club in Rhode Island.
  

• 1905: Orville Wright pilots the first flight longer than 30 minutes. The flight lasted 33 minutes, 17 seconds and covered 21 miles.
  

• 1910: An opera by a 13-year-old boy was premiered in Vienna. "The Snowman" was written by Erich Korngold, who went on to be a famous Hollywood soundtrack composer.
  

• 1914: The first German Zeppelin raids London.
  

• 1931: The comic strip "Dick Tracy," created by Chester Gould, made its debut.
  

• 1940: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps, where the Nazi leader sought Italy's help in fighting the British.
  

• 1957: The television series "Leave It to Beaver" premiered on CBS. It ran until 1963, when Beaver was a middle teen.
  

• 1957: The Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit. The satellite, built by Valentin Glushko, weighed 184 pounds and was launched by a converted Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). Sputnik orbited the earth every 96 minutes at a maximum height of 584 miles. In 1958, it reentered the earth's atmosphere and burned up.
  

• 1958: The first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) with flights between London and New York.
  

• 1965: Pope Paul the Sixth became the first reigning pontiff to visit the Western Hemisphere as he addressed the UN General Assembly.
  

• 1968: Cambodia admits that the Viet Cong use their country for sanctuary.
  

• 1970: Rock singer Janis Joplin, 27, was found dead in her Hollywood hotel room.
  

• 1972: Judge John Sirca puts the gag rule on the Watergate break-in case.
  

• 1976: In Gregg v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court lifts the ban on the death sentence in murder cases. This restored the legality of capital punishment, which not been practiced since 1967. The first execution following this ruling was Gary Gilmore in 1977.
  

• 1976: Agriculture secretary Earl Butz resigned in the wake of a controversy over a joke he'd made about blacks.
  

• 1978: Funeral services were held at the Vatican for Pope John Paul I.
  

• 1980: The highest-scoring major college football game was played - the final score was Oklahoma 82, Colorado 42.
  

• 1985: Islamic Jihad issued a statement saying it had killed American hostage William Buckley. (Fellow hostage David Jacobsen, however, later said he believed Buckley had died of torture injuries four months earlier.)
  

• 1986: The Soviet Union informed the United States that a fire had broken out aboard a Soviet nuclear submarine in the Atlantic Ocean, but that there was no danger of an explosion or radiation leakage.
  

• 1987: National Football League owners staged their first games since the players union went on strike, with non-striking and replacement personnel on the gridiron at sparsely attended stadiums.
  

• 1988: Indian professor Mithileshwar Singh, freed the day before by his Lebanese kidnappers, told reporters in Damascus, Syria, that his captors had treated him well during his 20 months of imprisonment, but that "there is no substitute for freedom."
  

• 1989: Fawaz Younis, a Lebanese hijacker convicted of commandeering a Jordanian jetliner with two Americans aboard in 1985, was sentenced in Washington.
  

• 1990: The first meeting of the reunified Germany's parliament took place in the Reichstag. The building had not been used by German lawmakers since Adolf Hitler banned all political parties from it with the exception of the Nazis in the 1930's.
  

• 1992: An Israeli Boeing 747 cargo jet crashed into an Amsterdam apartment complex, killing 43 people.
  

• 1993: Dozens of cheering, dancing Somalis dragged the body of an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu.
  

• 1993: In Moscow, the occupation of the Russian parliament building ended as tanks and paratroopers flushed out hard-line opponents of Boris Yeltsin.
  

• 1994: President Clinton welcomed South African President Nelson Mandela to the White House.
  

• 1994: Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide vowed in an address to the U.N. General Assembly to return to Haiti in 11 days.
  

• 1995: Pope John Paul II, proclaiming himself a "pilgrim of peace," arrived in the United States for a five-day visit. The visit marked the first occasion of a reigning pontiff to address the U.N. General Assembly.
  

• 1995: Hurricane Opal battered the Florida panhandle.
  

• 1996: A judge in Philadelphia issued an injunction preventing major league baseball umpires from striking for the remainder of the postseason over an incident in which Roberto Alomar of the Baltimore Orioles spat on umpire John Hirschbeck.
  

• 1997: Hundreds of thousands of men attended a Promise Keepers rally on the mall in Washington DC, in one of the largest religious gatherings in US history.
  

• 1998: Russian envoys warned Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic that NATO might launch air-strikes unless he took "decisive measures" to end the humanitarian crisis in the southern province of Kosovo.
  

• 1998: Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso won re-election.
  

• 1999: An Illinois jury ordered State Farm to pay $456 million to 4.7 million customers in a lawsuit accusing the nation's largest car insurer of using inferior parts for auto body repairs. (Four days later, the judge ruled State Farm had committed fraud, and awarded $730 million in actual and punitive damages on top of the jury verdict. State Farm is appealing.)
  
  

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