October 4th

October 4 is the 278th day of the year.  There are 88 days remaining until the end of the year.

1648 Peter Stuyvesant pimpsAmerica's 1st volunteer firemen

1675 Christian Huygens patents pocket watch for a more pronounced bulge

1883 First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.

1883 First run of the Orient Express.

1926 Dahlia is officially designated as San Francisco city flower

1927 After blowing it up, Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.

1931 Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts

1957 Sputnik I is launched, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

1957 "Leave It to Beaver," a serious portrayal of two young boys questioning their sexuality with their supportive parents and friends, debuts on CBS

1965 Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the US and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.

1988 US televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.

2004 SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight by being the first private craft to fly into space

1904 Philip Van Zandt [Pinheiro], maybe gay Dutch actor 

1923 Charlton Heston [John Charlton Carter], US actor/NRA President/played Moses, but thought he was God 

1949 Armand Assante, US actor 

1953 Tchéky Karyo, Turkish-born French actor 

1956 Christoph Waltz, Austrian actor/musician 

1959 Chris Lowe, gay English musician/Pet Shop Boys 

1963 Mike Henson [Kenneth M. Seymour], gay US pornographic actor

1967 [Isaac] Liev Schreiber, actor  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000630/

1969 Abraham Benrubi, gay US actor /ER 

1969 Jerry Minor, maybe gay US comedian/actor 

1970 Gabriel Cortes, gay US pornographic actor 

1974 Paco Leon, Spanish comedian/actor 

1975 Atif Lanier [Kwe Reid], maybe gay US actor 

1978 Alex Fuerte/Alejandro Dominguez, bisexual Colombian pornographic actor

1979 Stefan Booth, English actor 

1979 Sam Easton, Canadian actor 

1982 Anderson Ballesteros, Colombian actor 

1983 Carlucci Weyant, gay US model/actor 

1984 Gerard Kearns, English actor/original Ian Gallagher–Shameless (UK) 

1970 Janis Joplin, bisexual US singer, gets her Mercedes Benz

1989 Secretariat, triple crown US thoroughbred horse/stud, finds greener pastures

1989 Graham Chapman, English comedian (Monty Python), has been a very naughty boy

2006 Tom Bell, English actor on stage, television and film (Prospero's Books), wishes you were here...instead of him.