TODAY in HISTORY

Today is Thursday, October 4, the 277th day of 2018. There are 88 days left in the year.

1227 Assassination of Caliph al- Adil of Morocco.

1302 The Byzantine– Venetian War comes to an end. 1511 Formation of the Holy League of Aragon, the Papal States and Venice against France. 1535 The Coverdale Bible is printed, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale. 1597 Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now Georgia. 1636 Thirty Years’ War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.

1693 Nine Years’ War: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French. 1777 American Revolutionary War: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under William Howe. 1795 Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence by suppressing armed counterrevolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention. 1824 Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.

1830 The Belgian Revolution takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands. 1895 Horace Rawlins wins the first U. S. Open Men’s Golf Championship.

1904 The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.

1927 Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore. 1936 The British Union of Fascists and various anti- fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street. 1941 Norman Rockwell’s Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.

1957 Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. 1965 Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas. 1966 Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho. 1967 Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son. 1983 Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour ( 1,019.468 km/ h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. 1985 The Free Software Foundation is founded. 1991 The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature. 1992 The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16- year civil war in Mozambique.

2003 The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing Israel kills 21 Israelis, both Jews and Arabs. 2004 SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight. 2006 WikiLeaks is launched.