October 4
1777 - Gen. George Washington's troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Pennsylvania, resulting in heavy American casualties.
1887 - The International Herald Tribune had its beginnings as the Paris Herald, a European edition of the New York Herald.
1940 - Germany's Adolf Hitler and Italy's Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps.
1957 - The Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite, into orbit around the Earth, ushering in the Space Age and the Space Race.
1965 - Pope Paul VI made the first visit to the Western Hemisphere by a reigning pope as he arrived in New York City to address the U.N. General Assembly.
1970 - Rock singer Janis Joplin was found dead in her Hollywood hotel room of a drug overdose at age 27.
1990 - The German Parliament met for the first time since the reunification of Germany.
1991 - Twenty-six nations, including the United States, signed the Madrid Protocol, which imposed a 50-year ban on oil exploration and mining in Antarctica.
2001 - Authorities confirmed a tabloid editor in Florida had contracted anthrax; he died the next day.
2001 - A Russian airliner flying from Israel to Siberia was accidentally downed by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile over the Black Sea, killing all 78 people aboard.
2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh received a 20-year sentence after a sobbing plea for forgiveness before a federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia. (He was released from prison in May, 2019.) In a federal court in Boston, a laughing Richard Reid pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives in his shoes (the British citizen was later sentenced to life in prison).
2004 - The SpaceShipOne rocket plane broke through Earth's atmosphere to the edge of space for the second time in five days, capturing the $10 million Ansari X prize aimed at opening the final frontier to tourists.
2010 - The Supreme Court began a new era with three women serving together for the first time as Elena Kagan took her place at the end of the bench.
2013 - Vo Nguyen Giap, the military commander who'd led Vietnamese Communist forces against the French and then the Americans, died in Hanoi at age 102.
2017 - President Donald Trump visited hospital bedsides and a police base in Las Vegas in the aftermath of the shooting rampage three nights earlier that left 58 people dead.
2020 - Infected and contagious, President Donald Trump briefly ventured out in an SUV from the hospital where he was being treated for COVID-19 to salute cheering supporters. Trump's medical team reported that his blood oxygen level had dropped suddenly twice in recent days and that they gave him a steroid typically only recommended for the very sick.
2022 - Elon Musk abandoned his legal battle to back out of buying Twitter and offered to go through with his original $44 billion bid for the social media platform.
Birthdays
27 - Ryan Scott Lee (actor)
29 - Mike Williams (football player)
32 - Leigh-Anne Pinnock (actress)
34 - Kimmie Meisner (figure skater)
34 - Dakota Johnson (actress)
34 - Lil Mama (rapper)
34 - Stacey Solomon (singer)
35 - Derrick Rose (basketball player)
35 - Melissa Benoist (actress)
36 - Michael Charles Roman (actor)
43 - Jimmy Workman (actor)
43 - Tim Peper (actor)
44 - Rachael Leigh Cook (actress)
44 - Brandon Barash (actor)
45 - Phillip Glasser (actor)
45 - Dana Davis (actress)
47 - Alicia Silverstone (actress)
53 - Heidi Newfield (singer)
54 - Abraham Benrubi (actor)
56 - Liev Schreiber (actor)
56 - Jerry Minor (actor/comedian)
62 - Jon Secada (singer)
62 - David W. Harper (actor)
65 - Wendy Makkena (actress/singer)
66 - Russell Simmons (music producer)
66 - Bill Fagerbakke (actor)
67 - Christoph Waltz (actor)
73 - Alan Rosenberg (actor)
74 - Armand Assante (actor)
77 - Susan Sarandon (actress)
78 - Clifton Davis (actor)
79 - Tony La Russa (baseball manager)
82 - Lori Saunders (actress)
91 - Felicia Farr (actress)
94 - Leroy Van Dyke (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 4
1895 - The first U.S. Open Golf Tournament was held in Newport, Rhode Island.
1902 - Nebraska defeats Colorado 10-0.
1913 - Nebraska opens the season with a 19-0 win over Washburn.
1919 - Nebraska opens the season under new head coach Henry Schulte with an 18-0 loss to Cockeye.
1924 - Nebraska opens the season with a 9-6 loss to Illinois.
1930 - Nebraska opens the season with a 13-0 win over Texas A&M.
1938 - The New York Yankees sweep the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series.
1941 - Nebraska opens the season with a 14-0 win over Cockeye State.
1947 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 28-13.
1952 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 16-0.
1953 - The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in six games to win the World Series.
1955 - The Brooklyn Dodgers defeat the New York Yankees in seven games to win the World Series.
1958 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 7-6.
1959 - The first World Series to be played west of St. Louis began in Los Angeles.
1969 - MLB holds its first League Championship Series: the New York Mets beat the Atlanta Braves in the NLCS and the Baltimore Orioles defeat the Minnesota Twins in the ALCS.
1969 - Nebraska defeats Minnesota 42-14.
1975 - #4 Nebraska defeats Miami (FL) 31-16.
1980 - #16 Florida State defeats #3 Nebraska 18-14.
1986 - #3 Nebraska defeats South Carolina 27-24.
1987 - NFL owners used replacement personnel to play games despite the player's strike.
1991 - San Jose Sharks play first NHL game in franchise history, a 4-3 loss in Vancouver.
1997 - #3 Nebraska defeats #17 Kansas State 56-26.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit his 70th home run of the season to tie Mark McGwire's major league record. Bonds also moved past Reggie Jackson on the all-time list with his 564th career home run.
2001 - Rickey Henderson (San Diego Padres) scored his 2,246th career run to break Ty Cobb's major league record.
2001 - The Boston Bruins retire Ray Bourque's #77.
2003 - #12 Nebraska defeats Troy State 30-0.
2008 - #4 Missouri defeats Nebraska 52-17.
2014 - #10 Michigan State defeats #19 Nebraska 27-22.
2018 - Tom Brady of the New England Patriots becomes just the third quarterback in NFL history to record 500 career touchdown passes.
2022 - New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge breaks Roger Maris' American League single-season home run record with his 62nd in a game against the Texas Rangers.
1777 - Gen. George Washington's troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Pennsylvania, resulting in heavy American casualties.
1887 - The International Herald Tribune had its beginnings as the Paris Herald, a European edition of the New York Herald.
1940 - Germany's Adolf Hitler and Italy's Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps.
1957 - The Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite, into orbit around the Earth, ushering in the Space Age and the Space Race.
1965 - Pope Paul VI made the first visit to the Western Hemisphere by a reigning pope as he arrived in New York City to address the U.N. General Assembly.
1970 - Rock singer Janis Joplin was found dead in her Hollywood hotel room of a drug overdose at age 27.
1990 - The German Parliament met for the first time since the reunification of Germany.
1991 - Twenty-six nations, including the United States, signed the Madrid Protocol, which imposed a 50-year ban on oil exploration and mining in Antarctica.
2001 - Authorities confirmed a tabloid editor in Florida had contracted anthrax; he died the next day.
2001 - A Russian airliner flying from Israel to Siberia was accidentally downed by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile over the Black Sea, killing all 78 people aboard.
2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh received a 20-year sentence after a sobbing plea for forgiveness before a federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia. (He was released from prison in May, 2019.) In a federal court in Boston, a laughing Richard Reid pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives in his shoes (the British citizen was later sentenced to life in prison).
2004 - The SpaceShipOne rocket plane broke through Earth's atmosphere to the edge of space for the second time in five days, capturing the $10 million Ansari X prize aimed at opening the final frontier to tourists.
2010 - The Supreme Court began a new era with three women serving together for the first time as Elena Kagan took her place at the end of the bench.
2013 - Vo Nguyen Giap, the military commander who'd led Vietnamese Communist forces against the French and then the Americans, died in Hanoi at age 102.
2017 - President Donald Trump visited hospital bedsides and a police base in Las Vegas in the aftermath of the shooting rampage three nights earlier that left 58 people dead.
2020 - Infected and contagious, President Donald Trump briefly ventured out in an SUV from the hospital where he was being treated for COVID-19 to salute cheering supporters. Trump's medical team reported that his blood oxygen level had dropped suddenly twice in recent days and that they gave him a steroid typically only recommended for the very sick.
2022 - Elon Musk abandoned his legal battle to back out of buying Twitter and offered to go through with his original $44 billion bid for the social media platform.
Birthdays
27 - Ryan Scott Lee (actor)
29 - Mike Williams (football player)
32 - Leigh-Anne Pinnock (actress)
34 - Kimmie Meisner (figure skater)
34 - Dakota Johnson (actress)
34 - Lil Mama (rapper)
34 - Stacey Solomon (singer)
35 - Derrick Rose (basketball player)
35 - Melissa Benoist (actress)
36 - Michael Charles Roman (actor)
43 - Jimmy Workman (actor)
43 - Tim Peper (actor)
44 - Rachael Leigh Cook (actress)
44 - Brandon Barash (actor)
45 - Phillip Glasser (actor)
45 - Dana Davis (actress)
47 - Alicia Silverstone (actress)
53 - Heidi Newfield (singer)
54 - Abraham Benrubi (actor)
56 - Liev Schreiber (actor)
56 - Jerry Minor (actor/comedian)
62 - Jon Secada (singer)
62 - David W. Harper (actor)
65 - Wendy Makkena (actress/singer)
66 - Russell Simmons (music producer)
66 - Bill Fagerbakke (actor)
67 - Christoph Waltz (actor)
73 - Alan Rosenberg (actor)
74 - Armand Assante (actor)
77 - Susan Sarandon (actress)
78 - Clifton Davis (actor)
79 - Tony La Russa (baseball manager)
82 - Lori Saunders (actress)
91 - Felicia Farr (actress)
94 - Leroy Van Dyke (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 4
1895 - The first U.S. Open Golf Tournament was held in Newport, Rhode Island.
1902 - Nebraska defeats Colorado 10-0.
1913 - Nebraska opens the season with a 19-0 win over Washburn.
1919 - Nebraska opens the season under new head coach Henry Schulte with an 18-0 loss to Cockeye.
1924 - Nebraska opens the season with a 9-6 loss to Illinois.
1930 - Nebraska opens the season with a 13-0 win over Texas A&M.
1938 - The New York Yankees sweep the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series.
1941 - Nebraska opens the season with a 14-0 win over Cockeye State.
1947 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 28-13.
1952 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 16-0.
1953 - The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in six games to win the World Series.
1955 - The Brooklyn Dodgers defeat the New York Yankees in seven games to win the World Series.
1958 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 7-6.
1959 - The first World Series to be played west of St. Louis began in Los Angeles.
1969 - MLB holds its first League Championship Series: the New York Mets beat the Atlanta Braves in the NLCS and the Baltimore Orioles defeat the Minnesota Twins in the ALCS.
1969 - Nebraska defeats Minnesota 42-14.
1975 - #4 Nebraska defeats Miami (FL) 31-16.
1980 - #16 Florida State defeats #3 Nebraska 18-14.
1986 - #3 Nebraska defeats South Carolina 27-24.
1987 - NFL owners used replacement personnel to play games despite the player's strike.
1991 - San Jose Sharks play first NHL game in franchise history, a 4-3 loss in Vancouver.
1997 - #3 Nebraska defeats #17 Kansas State 56-26.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit his 70th home run of the season to tie Mark McGwire's major league record. Bonds also moved past Reggie Jackson on the all-time list with his 564th career home run.
2001 - Rickey Henderson (San Diego Padres) scored his 2,246th career run to break Ty Cobb's major league record.
2001 - The Boston Bruins retire Ray Bourque's #77.
2003 - #12 Nebraska defeats Troy State 30-0.
2008 - #4 Missouri defeats Nebraska 52-17.
2014 - #10 Michigan State defeats #19 Nebraska 27-22.
2018 - Tom Brady of the New England Patriots becomes just the third quarterback in NFL history to record 500 career touchdown passes.
2022 - New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge breaks Roger Maris' American League single-season home run record with his 62nd in a game against the Texas Rangers.
