October 4

Today in History
• 1535 - The Coverdale Bible, the first complete Bible to be published in English
• 1582 - Last Julian calendar day in Spain, Portugal and pontifical states
• 1636 - In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony's 1st law drafted
• 1648 - Peter Stuyvesant establishes America's 1st volunteer fire service
• 1675 - Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens patents the pocket watch
• 1824 - Mexico becomes a republic
• 1853 - Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire
• 1864 - New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Feast of St. Francis of Assisi
• International Walk to School Day
• Kindness to Animal Day
• Lesotho Independence Day
?• National Cinnamon Roll Day
• Semana Morazánica
• World Animal Day
• World Habitat Day

Birthdays
• 1276 - Margaret of Brabant, Queen of Germany
• 1289 - Louis X, King of France (1314-16), born in Paris
• 1379 - Henry III, King of Castile and León (1390-1406)
• 1550 - Charles IX, King of Sweden (1604-11)
• 1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US President
• 1841 - Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Queen consort of the Two Sicilies
• 1841 - Prudente José de Morais Barros, 3rd President of Brazil
• 1868 - Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, President of Argentina (1922-28)