October 4 Holidays

✡️ 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... ↗

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🎂 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

🏀 Sports on this Date

• NHL: Boston Bruins @ Minnesota Wild — 00:00 Final
• NHL: Dallas Stars @ Nashville Predators — 00:00 Final
• College Football: Arkansas State Red Wolves @ Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns — 00:00 Final
• College Football: Indiana Hoosiers @ Rutgers Scarlet Knights — 00:00 Final
• MLB: San Diego Padres @ Milwaukee Brewers — 00:30 Final
• NHL: St. Louis Blues @ Colorado Avalanche — 01:00 Final