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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_4" title="October 4">October 4</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_Roll_Day" title="Cinnamon Roll Day">Cinnamon Roll Day</a></b> in Sweden and Finland
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1209" title="1209">1209</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_IV,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor">Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor</a></b> was crowned.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1363" title="1363">1363</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Turban_Rebellions" title="Red Turban Rebellions">Red Turban Rebellions</a>: The rebel leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongwu_Emperor" title="Hongwu Emperor">Zhu Yuanzhang</a> won the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Poyang" title="Battle of Lake Poyang">Battle of Lake Poyang</a></b> by deploying <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_ship" title="Fire ship">ships intentionally set aflame</a> when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Youliang" title="Chen Youliang">the emperor</a> tried to escape.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a> – An ammunition plant in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayreville,_New_Jersey" title="Sayreville, New Jersey">Sayreville, New Jersey</a>, U.S., <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._A._Gillespie_Company_Shell_Loading_Plant_explosion" title="T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion">exploded</a></b>, killing around 100 people and destroying more than 300 buildings.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957" title="1957">1957</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program" title="Soviet space program">Soviet spacecraft</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1" title="Sputnik 1">Sputnik 1</a></b>, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, was launched from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikonur_Cosmodrome" title="Baikonur Cosmodrome">Baikonur Cosmodrome</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003" title="2003">2003</a> – A suicide bomber <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_restaurant_suicide_bombing" title="Maxim restaurant suicide bombing">killed 21 people</a></b>, including a two-month-old baby, and injured 60 others inside a restaurant in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haifa" title="Haifa">Haifa</a>, Israel.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Pearson" title="Charles Pearson">Charles Pearson</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1793); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilder-Neligan" title="Maurice Wilder-Neligan">Maurice Wilder-Neligan</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1882); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks" title="Henrietta Lacks">Henrietta Lacks</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1951); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi" title="Gunpei Yokoi">Gunpei Yokoi</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1997)</p>
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