WHAT HAPPENED ON 4. OCTOBER
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First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland. (4. October 1883)

The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island. (4. October 1895)

The Battle of Broodseinde fought between the British and German armies in Flanders. (4. October 1917)

An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which were still being found as of 2007. (4. October 1918)

Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore. (4. October 1927)

Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass. (4. October 1940)

Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. (4. October 1941)

World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands. (4. October 1943)

Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. (4. October 1957)

Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario. (4. October 1957)

Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS. (4. October 1957)

Fifth Republic of France is established. (4. October 1958)

Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board. (4. October 1960)

Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti. (4. October 1963)

Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first Pope to visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere. (4. October 1965)

Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho. (4. October 1966)

Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. (4. October 1967)

Founding of the New Democracy party in Greece. (4. October 1974)

Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST). (4. October 1976)

Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. (4. October 1983)