This Day in History October 4: Notable Historical Events on October 4
This Day in History October 4th. The most notable events that took place on October 4th range from political historical events to cultural and social events.
Domestic events taking place on October 4
October 4, 1953:The Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam promulgates religious policies.
October 4, 1996:The Prime Minister issued Decision No. 369/1996/QD-TTg, taking October 4 of each year as “National Fire Prevention and Fighting Day”. The Law on Fire Prevention and Fighting issued in 2001 stipulates that October 4 of each year is “National Fire Prevention and Fighting Day”.
October 4, 2013:General Vo Nguyen Giap passed away. General Vo Nguyen Giap was the Commander-in-Chief, the first General of the Vietnam People's Army and the founder of the Vietnam Propaganda Liberation Army, the predecessor of the current Vietnam People's Army. General Vo Nguyen Giap contributed to directing major campaigns in the resistance wars against France and the US, of which two famous major campaigns were the Dien Bien Phu Campaign and the Ho Chi Minh Campaign.
October 4, 2020:With Decision No. 1486/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister, this day has become Vietnam Labor Skills Day every year.
International events taking place on October 4
October 4, 1363:The Battle of Poyang Lake ended with the Ming army of Zhu Yuanzhang winning over the Han army of Chen Youliang.
October 4, 1857:On the birthday of Xionkovski - the father of space travel, for the first time in human history, the Soviet Union launched into the sky a spacecraft named "Sputnik 1" opening a new era for humanity: the era of humans conquering space with satellites made by themselves.
October 4, 1957:The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into low Earth orbit using an R-7 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
October 4, 1985:Software developer Richard Stallman founded the Open Source Software Foundation to support the open source software movement.
October 4, 1993:The Russian constitutional crisis came to a head when President Boris Yeltsin ordered tanks to fire directly at the parliament building in Moscow.
October 4, 2006:Julian Assange launched the WikiLeaks website, causing a global earthquake when WikiLeaks was said to have played an active role in helping Edward Snowden, a former employee of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), reveal a huge volume of secret US Government documents on wiretapping and espionage.
October 4, 2010:A tailings pond at the Ajka alumina plant in Hungary collapsed, causing about one million cubic metres of liquid waste from red mud ponds to spill into surrounding areas.
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