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October 4
1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th president of the United States, was born in Delaware, Ohio.
1861 - During the Civil War, the United States Navy authorized construction of the first ironclad ship, the USS Monitor.
1887 - The International Herald Tribune was published for the first time.
1931 - The comic strip "Dick Tracy" by Chester Gould made its debut.
1940 - During World War II, German leader Adolf Hitler and his Italian counterpart Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps.
1957 - The Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into orbit around the earth, ushering in the Space Age and Space Race.
1957 - Jimmy Hoffa was elected president of the Teamsters Union.
1965 - Pope Paul VI made the first visit to the Western Hemisphere by a reigning pope as he arrived in New York City to address the U.N. General Assembly.
1970 - Rock singer Janis Joplin was found dead of a drug overdose at age 27.
1976 - Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz resigned in the wake of a controversy over an obscene joke he’d made that was derogatory to Black people.
1990 - The German parliament met for the first time since the reunification of Germany.
1991 - Twenty-six nations, including the United States, signed the Madrid Protocol, which imposed a 50-year ban on oil exploration and mining in Antarctica.
1993 - Dozens of cheering, dancing Somalis dragged the body of an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu.
2001 - Authorities confirmed a tabloid editor in Florida had contracted anthrax; he died the next day.
2001 - A Russian airliner flying from Israel to Siberia was accidentally downed by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile over the Black Sea, killing all 78 people aboard.
2002 - John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban", received a 20-year prison sentence. (He was released from prison in May, 2019.)
2002 - Richard Reid pleaded guilty in a federal court to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes. (He was later given a life sentence.)
2004 - The SpaceShipOne rocket plane broke through Earth’s atmosphere to the edge of space for the second time in five days, capturing the $10 million Ansari X prize aimed at opening the final frontier to tourists.
2010 - The Supreme Court began a new era with three women serving together for the first time as Elena Kagan took her place at the end of the bench.
2011 - Three U.S.-born scientists, Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess, won the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace.
2016 - Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine repeatedly challenged Mike Pence during their vice presidential debate, attempting to tie the Indiana governor to some of Donald Trump’s most controversial statements about women, immigrants and foreign policy, while Trump’s running mate maintained a folksy, soft-spoken demeanor as he defended Trump.
2016 - Hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti’s southwest peninsula, the first Category 4 storm to hit the country in more than a half century; the Haitian government would put the death toll from Matthew at 546.
2020 - Infected and contagious, President Donald Trump briefly ventured out in an SUV from the hospital where he was being treated for COVID-19 to salute cheering supporters. Trump’s medical team reported that his blood oxygen level had dropped suddenly twice in recent days and that they gave him a steroid typically only recommended for the very sick; doctors said he had also been given oxygen before being hospitalized.
Birthdays
25 - Ryan Scott Lee (actor)
25 - Amber Davies (reality star)
25 - Ella Balinska (actress)
30 - Leigh-Anne Pinnock (actress)
32 - Stacey Solomon (singer)
32 - Kimmie Meisner (figure skater)
32 - Dakota Johnson (actress)
33 - Derrick Rose (basketball player)
33 - Melissa Benoist (actress)
34 - Michael Charles Roman (actor)
41 - Jimmy Workman (actor)
41 - Tim Peper (actor)
42 - Rachael Leigh Cook (actress)
42 - Brandon Barash (actor)
43 - Phillip Glasser (actor)
43 - Dana Davis (actress)
45 - Alicia Silverstone (actress)
51 - Heidi Newfield (country singer)
52 - Abraham Benrubi (actor)
54 - Liev Schreiber (actor)
54 - Jerry Minor (actor/comedian)
56 - John Melendez (TV personality)
60 - Jon Secada (singer)
60 - David W. Harper (actor)
63 - Wendy Makkena (actress/singer)
64 - Kyra Schon (actress)
64 - Russell Simmons (music producer/reality star)
64 - Bill Fagerbakke (actor)
65 - Christoph Waltz (actor)
71 - Alan Rosenberg (actor)
72 - Armand Assante (actor)
75 - Susan Sarandon (actress)
76 - Clifton Davis (actor)
77 - Tony La Russa (baseball hall of famer)
80 - Lori Saunders (actress)
80 - Anne Rice (author)
80 - Roy Blount Jr. (author)
87 - Sam Huff (football player)
89 - Felicia Farr (actress)
92 - Leroy Van Dyke (country singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 4
1893 - The first professional football contract was signed by Grant Dibert for the Pittsburgh Athletic Club.
1895 - The first U.S. Open golf tournament was held in Newport, Rhode Island.
1906 - The Chicago Cubs end their regular season with a record of 116-36. Their .763 winning percentage has been unmatched since.
1924 - The New York Giants become the first baseball team to appear in four consecutive World Series.
1948 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Red Sox 8-3 in a one-game playoff to decide the American League pennant.
1955 - The Brooklyn Dodgers defeat the New York Yankees in seven games to win their first-ever World Series. (The Dodgers had lost in their seven previous trips to the World Series.)
1959 - The first World Series to be played west of St. Louis began in Los Angeles.
1964 - Boston Patriots kicker Gino Cappelletti hits six-of-six field goals and 3-of-3 extra point attempts in a 39-10 win over the Denver Broncos.
1967 - The World Series opens between the St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox; it is the first series since 1948 to not feature the Yankees, Giants or Dodgers.
1987 - NFL owners used replacement personnel to play games despite the player's strike.
1991 - The Edmonton Oilers trade Mark Messier to the New York Rangers.
1991 - The San Jose Sharks play their first game in franchise history, a 4-3 loss to the Vancouver Canucks.
2001 - The Boston Bruins retire Ray Bourque's #77.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 70th home run of the season, tying Mark McGwire's three-year-old MLB single season record, in a game against the Houston Astros.
2001 - Rickey Henderson (San Diego Padres) scored his 2,246th career run to break Ty Cobb's major league record.
2003 - Texas Tech quarterback B.J. Symons sets a Big 12 Conference record with eight passing touchdowns in a 59-28 win over Texas A&M.
2011 - The NBA canceled the entire 114-game preseason schedule because a new collective bargaining agreement had not been reached with the Players Association.
2018 - New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady becomes just the third quarterback in NFL history with 500 career touchdown passes, joining Peyton Manning and Brett Favre.
1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th president of the United States, was born in Delaware, Ohio.
1861 - During the Civil War, the United States Navy authorized construction of the first ironclad ship, the USS Monitor.
1887 - The International Herald Tribune was published for the first time.
1931 - The comic strip "Dick Tracy" by Chester Gould made its debut.
1940 - During World War II, German leader Adolf Hitler and his Italian counterpart Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps.
1957 - The Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into orbit around the earth, ushering in the Space Age and Space Race.
1957 - Jimmy Hoffa was elected president of the Teamsters Union.
1965 - Pope Paul VI made the first visit to the Western Hemisphere by a reigning pope as he arrived in New York City to address the U.N. General Assembly.
1970 - Rock singer Janis Joplin was found dead of a drug overdose at age 27.
1976 - Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz resigned in the wake of a controversy over an obscene joke he’d made that was derogatory to Black people.
1990 - The German parliament met for the first time since the reunification of Germany.
1991 - Twenty-six nations, including the United States, signed the Madrid Protocol, which imposed a 50-year ban on oil exploration and mining in Antarctica.
1993 - Dozens of cheering, dancing Somalis dragged the body of an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu.
2001 - Authorities confirmed a tabloid editor in Florida had contracted anthrax; he died the next day.
2001 - A Russian airliner flying from Israel to Siberia was accidentally downed by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile over the Black Sea, killing all 78 people aboard.
2002 - John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban", received a 20-year prison sentence. (He was released from prison in May, 2019.)
2002 - Richard Reid pleaded guilty in a federal court to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes. (He was later given a life sentence.)
2004 - The SpaceShipOne rocket plane broke through Earth’s atmosphere to the edge of space for the second time in five days, capturing the $10 million Ansari X prize aimed at opening the final frontier to tourists.
2010 - The Supreme Court began a new era with three women serving together for the first time as Elena Kagan took her place at the end of the bench.
2011 - Three U.S.-born scientists, Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess, won the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace.
2016 - Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine repeatedly challenged Mike Pence during their vice presidential debate, attempting to tie the Indiana governor to some of Donald Trump’s most controversial statements about women, immigrants and foreign policy, while Trump’s running mate maintained a folksy, soft-spoken demeanor as he defended Trump.
2016 - Hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti’s southwest peninsula, the first Category 4 storm to hit the country in more than a half century; the Haitian government would put the death toll from Matthew at 546.
2020 - Infected and contagious, President Donald Trump briefly ventured out in an SUV from the hospital where he was being treated for COVID-19 to salute cheering supporters. Trump’s medical team reported that his blood oxygen level had dropped suddenly twice in recent days and that they gave him a steroid typically only recommended for the very sick; doctors said he had also been given oxygen before being hospitalized.
Birthdays
25 - Ryan Scott Lee (actor)
25 - Amber Davies (reality star)
25 - Ella Balinska (actress)
30 - Leigh-Anne Pinnock (actress)
32 - Stacey Solomon (singer)
32 - Kimmie Meisner (figure skater)
32 - Dakota Johnson (actress)
33 - Derrick Rose (basketball player)
33 - Melissa Benoist (actress)
34 - Michael Charles Roman (actor)
41 - Jimmy Workman (actor)
41 - Tim Peper (actor)
42 - Rachael Leigh Cook (actress)
42 - Brandon Barash (actor)
43 - Phillip Glasser (actor)
43 - Dana Davis (actress)
45 - Alicia Silverstone (actress)
51 - Heidi Newfield (country singer)
52 - Abraham Benrubi (actor)
54 - Liev Schreiber (actor)
54 - Jerry Minor (actor/comedian)
56 - John Melendez (TV personality)
60 - Jon Secada (singer)
60 - David W. Harper (actor)
63 - Wendy Makkena (actress/singer)
64 - Kyra Schon (actress)
64 - Russell Simmons (music producer/reality star)
64 - Bill Fagerbakke (actor)
65 - Christoph Waltz (actor)
71 - Alan Rosenberg (actor)
72 - Armand Assante (actor)
75 - Susan Sarandon (actress)
76 - Clifton Davis (actor)
77 - Tony La Russa (baseball hall of famer)
80 - Lori Saunders (actress)
80 - Anne Rice (author)
80 - Roy Blount Jr. (author)
87 - Sam Huff (football player)
89 - Felicia Farr (actress)
92 - Leroy Van Dyke (country singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 4
1893 - The first professional football contract was signed by Grant Dibert for the Pittsburgh Athletic Club.
1895 - The first U.S. Open golf tournament was held in Newport, Rhode Island.
1906 - The Chicago Cubs end their regular season with a record of 116-36. Their .763 winning percentage has been unmatched since.
1924 - The New York Giants become the first baseball team to appear in four consecutive World Series.
1948 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Red Sox 8-3 in a one-game playoff to decide the American League pennant.
1955 - The Brooklyn Dodgers defeat the New York Yankees in seven games to win their first-ever World Series. (The Dodgers had lost in their seven previous trips to the World Series.)
1959 - The first World Series to be played west of St. Louis began in Los Angeles.
1964 - Boston Patriots kicker Gino Cappelletti hits six-of-six field goals and 3-of-3 extra point attempts in a 39-10 win over the Denver Broncos.
1967 - The World Series opens between the St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox; it is the first series since 1948 to not feature the Yankees, Giants or Dodgers.
1987 - NFL owners used replacement personnel to play games despite the player's strike.
1991 - The Edmonton Oilers trade Mark Messier to the New York Rangers.
1991 - The San Jose Sharks play their first game in franchise history, a 4-3 loss to the Vancouver Canucks.
2001 - The Boston Bruins retire Ray Bourque's #77.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 70th home run of the season, tying Mark McGwire's three-year-old MLB single season record, in a game against the Houston Astros.
2001 - Rickey Henderson (San Diego Padres) scored his 2,246th career run to break Ty Cobb's major league record.
2003 - Texas Tech quarterback B.J. Symons sets a Big 12 Conference record with eight passing touchdowns in a 59-28 win over Texas A&M.
2011 - The NBA canceled the entire 114-game preseason schedule because a new collective bargaining agreement had not been reached with the Players Association.
2018 - New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady becomes just the third quarterback in NFL history with 500 career touchdown passes, joining Peyton Manning and Brett Favre.