Also on October 4
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Festa nazionale di San Francesco d'Assisi, patrono d'Italia (IT) · St. Francis of Assisi's Day (IT)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Jewish: Simchat Torah שמחת תורה holiday
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2010 — The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine... ↗
- 2006 — Wikileaks is launched by Julian Assange. ↗
- 2004 — SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space. ↗
- 2003 — Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: Twenty-one Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded. ↗
- 2001 — Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: A Sibir Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200... ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1990 — Signy Aarna, Estonian footballer
- 1989 — Dakota Johnson, American model and actress
- 1988 — Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer
- 1988 — Caner Erkin, Turkish footballer
- 1988 — Evgeni Krasnopolski, Israeli figure skater