Talk:October 4

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October 4: Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi (Catholicism); Independence Day in Lesotho (1966)

1824 – Mexico enacted its first constitution, defining the nation as a federal republic.
1957 – Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1 (replica pictured), the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, was launched by an R-7 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR.
1967 – Hassanal Bolkiah became Sultan of Brunei upon the abdication of his father, Omar Ali Saifuddien III.
1997 – Armored car driver David Ghantt stole $17.3 million from his employer, one of the largest cash robberies in U.S. history.
2003 – A suicide bomber killed 21 people and injured more than 50 others inside the Maxim restaurant in Haifa, Israel.

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[edit] Removal of television show debuts, etc.

The debut of Snoopy, Dick Tracy and Leave it to Beaver do not meet notability requirements for Wikicalendar articles. None of these changed the world and none have an impact on how we see the world today. -- Mufka ^(u) ^(t) ^(c) 14:18, 14 October 2007 (UTC) Alexander Graeme Morrison (famous lawyer) was born on 4 October 1996 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.221.180.102 (talk) 09:19, 26 November 2009 (UTC)