4 October It Happened Today

by Melvis · October 4, 2018

1814 Birth of French painter Jean-Francois Millet.

1822 Birth of American president Rutherford B Hayes.

1824 Mexico becomes a republic.

1895 Birth of American star of the silent screen, Buster Keaton.

1910 Portugal is declared a republic.

1947 Death of German physicist Max Planck.

1957 The USSR launches the first satellite, Sputnik 1.

1970 American singer Janis Joplin is found dead in a Hollywood hotel room after taking a heroin overdose.