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| October 4 is the 278th day of the year. There are 88 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1648 Peter Stuyvesant pimpsAmerica's 1st volunteer firemen |
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| 1675 Christian Huygens patents pocket watch for a more pronounced bulge |
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| 1883 First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland. |
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| 1883 First run of the Orient Express. |
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| 1926 Dahlia is officially designated as San Francisco city flower |
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| 1927 After blowing it up, Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore. |
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| 1931 Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts |
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| 1957 Sputnik I is launched, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. |
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| 1957 "Leave It to Beaver," a serious portrayal of two young boys questioning their sexuality with their supportive parents and friends, debuts on CBS |
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| 1965 Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the US and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York. |
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| 1988 US televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud. |
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| 2004 SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight by being the first private craft to fly into space |
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| 1904 Philip Van Zandt [Pinheiro], maybe gay Dutch actor |
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| 1923 Charlton Heston [John Charlton Carter], US actor/NRA President/played Moses, but thought he was God |
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| 1949 Armand Assante, US actor |
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| 1953 Tchéky Karyo, Turkish-born French actor |
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| 1956 Christoph Waltz, Austrian actor/musician |
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| 1959 Chris Lowe, gay English musician/Pet Shop Boys |
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| 1963 Mike Henson [Kenneth M. Seymour], gay US pornographic actor |
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| 1967 [Isaac] Liev Schreiber, actor http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000630/ |
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| 1969 Abraham Benrubi, gay US actor /ER |
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| 1969 Jerry Minor, maybe gay US comedian/actor |
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| 1970 Gabriel Cortes, gay US pornographic actor |
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| 1974 Paco Leon, Spanish comedian/actor |
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| 1975 Atif Lanier [Kwe Reid], maybe gay US actor |
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| 1978 Alex Fuerte/Alejandro Dominguez, bisexual Colombian pornographic actor |
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| 1979 Stefan Booth, English actor |
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| 1979 Sam Easton, Canadian actor |
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| 1982 Anderson Ballesteros, Colombian actor |
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| 1983 Carlucci Weyant, gay US model/actor |
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| 1984 Gerard Kearns, English actor/original Ian Gallagher–Shameless (UK) |
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| 1970 Janis Joplin, bisexual US singer, gets her Mercedes Benz |
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| 1989 Secretariat, triple crown US thoroughbred horse/stud, finds greener pastures |
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| 1989 Graham Chapman, English comedian (Monty Python), has been a very naughty boy |
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| 2006 Tom Bell, English actor on stage, television and film (Prospero's Books), wishes you were here...instead of him. |
