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 was published for the first time.
1940 - During World War II, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps.
1957 - The Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, 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 United Nations General Assembly.
1970 - Rock singer Janis Joplin was found dead 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.)
2002 - 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.
2012 - The Nielsen Co. said an estimated 67.2 million people had watched the presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney; it was the biggest TV audience for a presidential debate since 1992.
2021 - A massive global outage knocked Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms offline for hours due to what Facebook called a “faulty configuration change”; there were no signs that malicious activity was involved.
2021 - The Biden administration reversed a Trump-era ban on abortion referrals by federally-funded family planning clinics.
2021 - Supreme Court justices returned to the courtroom for the start of a new term after a nearly 19-month absence because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Birthdays
26 - Ryan Scott Lee (actor)
26 - Amber Davies (reality star)
26 - Ella Balinska (actress)
31 - Leigh-Anne Pinnock (actress)
33 - Kimmie Meisner (figure skater)
33 - Dakota Johnson (actress)
33 - Stacey Solomon (singer)
34 - Derrick Rose (basketball player)
34 - Melissa Benoist (actress)
35 - Michael Charles Roman (actor)
42 - Jimmy Workman (actor)
42 - Tim Peper (actor)
43 - Rachael Leigh Cook (actress)
43 - Brandon Barash (actor)
44 - Phillip Glaser (actor)
44 - Dana Davis (actress)
46 - Alicia Silverstone (actress)
52 - Heidi Newfield (singer)
55 - Liev Schreiber (actor)
57 - John Melendez (TV personality)
61 - Jon Secada (singer)
61 - David W. Harper (actor)
64 - Wendy Makkena (actress/singer)
65 - Russell Simmons (music producer)
65 - Bill Fagerbakke (actor)
66 - Christoph Waltz (actor)
72 - Alan Rosenberg (actor)
73 - Armand Assante (actor)
76 - Susan Sarandon (actress)
77 - Clifton Davis (actor)
78 - Tony La Russa (baseball manager)
81 - Lori Saunders (actress)
81 - Roy Blount Jr. (author)
90 - Felicia Farr (actress)
93 - Leroy Van Dyke (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 4
1893 - The first professional football contract was signed by Grant Dibert for the Pittsburgh Athletic Club.
1895 - The first U.S. Open golf tournament was held in Newport, Rhode Island.
1902 - Nebraska defeats Colorado 10-0.
1906 - The Chicago Cubs end the regular season with a record of 116-36; their .763 winning percentage is the best in MLB history and hasn't been matched since.
1913 - Nebraska opens the season with a 19-0 win over Washburn.
1919 - Nebraska opens the season with a 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.
1948 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Red Sox 8-3 in a one-game playoff to determine the American League champion.
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.
1959 - Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns sets an NFL record with 37 rushing attempts in a 34-7 win over the Chicago Cardinals.
1969 - Major League Baseball holds its first league championship games after having split into divisions for the first time; the New York Mets defeated the Atlanta Braves to win the National League, while the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Minnesota Twins to take the American League crown.
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 - The San Jose Sharks play their inaugural NHL game, a 4-3 loss to the Vancouver Canucks.
1997 - #3 Nebraska defeats #17 Kansas State 56-26.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 70th home run of the year to tie Mark McGwire's single-season record set in 1998.
2001 - Rickey Henderson of the 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.
2003 - Texas Tech quarterback B.J. Symons sets a Big 12 Conference record with eight touchdown passes in a 59-28 win over Texas A&M.
2008 - #4 Missouri defeats Nebraska 52-17.
2014 - #10 Michigan State defeats #19 Nebraska 27-22.
2018 - New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady becomes just the third quarterback in NFL history to record 500 career touchdown passes.
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 was published for the first time.
1940 - During World War II, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps.
1957 - The Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, 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 United Nations General Assembly.
1970 - Rock singer Janis Joplin was found dead 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.)
2002 - 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.
2012 - The Nielsen Co. said an estimated 67.2 million people had watched the presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney; it was the biggest TV audience for a presidential debate since 1992.
2021 - A massive global outage knocked Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms offline for hours due to what Facebook called a “faulty configuration change”; there were no signs that malicious activity was involved.
2021 - The Biden administration reversed a Trump-era ban on abortion referrals by federally-funded family planning clinics.
2021 - Supreme Court justices returned to the courtroom for the start of a new term after a nearly 19-month absence because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Birthdays
26 - Ryan Scott Lee (actor)
26 - Amber Davies (reality star)
26 - Ella Balinska (actress)
31 - Leigh-Anne Pinnock (actress)
33 - Kimmie Meisner (figure skater)
33 - Dakota Johnson (actress)
33 - Stacey Solomon (singer)
34 - Derrick Rose (basketball player)
34 - Melissa Benoist (actress)
35 - Michael Charles Roman (actor)
42 - Jimmy Workman (actor)
42 - Tim Peper (actor)
43 - Rachael Leigh Cook (actress)
43 - Brandon Barash (actor)
44 - Phillip Glaser (actor)
44 - Dana Davis (actress)
46 - Alicia Silverstone (actress)
52 - Heidi Newfield (singer)
55 - Liev Schreiber (actor)
57 - John Melendez (TV personality)
61 - Jon Secada (singer)
61 - David W. Harper (actor)
64 - Wendy Makkena (actress/singer)
65 - Russell Simmons (music producer)
65 - Bill Fagerbakke (actor)
66 - Christoph Waltz (actor)
72 - Alan Rosenberg (actor)
73 - Armand Assante (actor)
76 - Susan Sarandon (actress)
77 - Clifton Davis (actor)
78 - Tony La Russa (baseball manager)
81 - Lori Saunders (actress)
81 - Roy Blount Jr. (author)
90 - Felicia Farr (actress)
93 - Leroy Van Dyke (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 4
1893 - The first professional football contract was signed by Grant Dibert for the Pittsburgh Athletic Club.
1895 - The first U.S. Open golf tournament was held in Newport, Rhode Island.
1902 - Nebraska defeats Colorado 10-0.
1906 - The Chicago Cubs end the regular season with a record of 116-36; their .763 winning percentage is the best in MLB history and hasn't been matched since.
1913 - Nebraska opens the season with a 19-0 win over Washburn.
1919 - Nebraska opens the season with a 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.
1948 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Red Sox 8-3 in a one-game playoff to determine the American League champion.
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.
1959 - Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns sets an NFL record with 37 rushing attempts in a 34-7 win over the Chicago Cardinals.
1969 - Major League Baseball holds its first league championship games after having split into divisions for the first time; the New York Mets defeated the Atlanta Braves to win the National League, while the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Minnesota Twins to take the American League crown.
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 - The San Jose Sharks play their inaugural NHL game, a 4-3 loss to the Vancouver Canucks.
1997 - #3 Nebraska defeats #17 Kansas State 56-26.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 70th home run of the year to tie Mark McGwire's single-season record set in 1998.
2001 - Rickey Henderson of the 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.
2003 - Texas Tech quarterback B.J. Symons sets a Big 12 Conference record with eight touchdown passes in a 59-28 win over Texas A&M.
2008 - #4 Missouri defeats Nebraska 52-17.
2014 - #10 Michigan State defeats #19 Nebraska 27-22.
2018 - New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady becomes just the third quarterback in NFL history to record 500 career touchdown passes.
