On this day: October 4

POSTED: 7:01 PM Oct 03 2012 UPDATED: 1:00 AM Oct 04 2012

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Work begins on Mount Rushmore, Sputnik is launched into space, the pope visits America for the first time, Janis Joplin is found dead of an overdose, all on this day.

OTD October 4 - Coverdale Bible — 1 / 37

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1535: The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.

OTD October 4 - Coverdale Bible

OTD October 4 - Gregorian calendar

OTD October 4 - Rembrandt

OTD October 4 - Rutherford B Hayes

OTD October 4 - The Orient Express

OTD October 4 - Horace Rawlins

OTD October 4 - Buster Keaton

OTD October 4 - Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

OTD October 4 - Gillespie Company explosion

OTD October 4 - Charlton Heston

OTD October 4 - Mount Rushmore

OTD October 4 - Dick Tracy

OTD October 4 - Esquire 1933

OTD October 4 - Jackie Collins

OTD October 4 - Willie Gillis

OTD October 4 - Anne Rice

OTD October 4 - Tony LaRussa

OTD October 4 - Susan Sarandon

OTD October 4 - 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers

OTD October 4 - Sputnik

OTD October 4 - Jimmy Hoffa

OTD October 4 - Leave it to Beaver

OTD October 4 - Russell Simmons

OTD October 4 - The Longest Day

OTD October 4 - Hurricane Flora

OTD October 4 - Pope Paul VI

OTD October 4 - Janis Joplin

OTD October 4 - death penalty

OTD October 4 - Alicia Silverstone

OTD October 4 - Thrust2

OTD October 4 - Secretariat

OTD October 4 - Russian constitutional crisis

OTD October 4 - Ricky Henderson

OTD October 4 - John Walker Lindh

OTD October 4 - Richard Reid

OTD October 4 - SpaceShipOne

OTD October 4 - Apple iPhone 4S

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