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Events on October 4

• 1529 As part of the Marburg Colloquy, the Marburg Articles are produced. In the Protestant Lord's Supper controversy, however, they achieve no agreement between Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli.
• 1582 In Catholic countries, the Gregorian calendar of Pope Gregory XIII is introduced, so that October 15 follows October 4 the next day.
• 1898 The first Brocken Railway reaches its terminus on the Brocken at 1125 meters altitude on the officially accepted remaining stretch. During the winter half-year, trains of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways terminate at Schierke station due to snow masses until 1950.
• 1933 The Editor Law in the German Reich defines journalism as a task regulated by the state.
• 1947 The Swedish textile trading company H&M is founded.
• 1955 The Citroën DS 19 appears, distinguished by its streamlined body and hydropneumatic suspension from competitors' cars.
• 1957 The Soviet Union launches the first artificial satellite into Earth orbit with Sputnik 1 as part of the Sputnik program.
• 1983 In the Schleswig-Holstein Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog, the world's largest wind turbine at the time, Growian, begins operation after preceding test runs. Technical problems cause frequent shutdowns of the prototype in the following period.
• 1989 The German federal government closes the embassy in Prague, into which more than 150 GDR citizens wishing to emigrate have fled.
• 1989 During the passage of GDR refugees from the Federal Republic's Prague embassy to the FRD, serious clashes occur between demonstrators and the People's Police at Dresden Central Station.
• 1992 In Rome, the 16-year civil war in Mozambique ends with the signing of a peace agreement.
• 1997 The premiere of the musical Dance of the Vampires by Jim Steinman and Michael Kunze, based on Roman Polanski's film of the same name, takes place under his direction at the Raimund Theater in Vienna.

Born on October 4

• 1886 Erich Fellgiebel, German officer and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
• 1892 Engelbert Dollfuß, Austrian politician and Austrofascist
• 1892 Luis Trenker, Austrian-Italian mountaineer, actor, director and writer
• 1923 Charlton Heston, American actor and civil rights activist, chairman of the NRA
• 1935 Horst Janson, German actor
• 1941 Anne Rice, American writer
• 1950 Michael Heubach, German rock musician and composer
• 1972 Doreen Dietel, German actress
• 1973 Andreas Bittl, German actor
• 1980 Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „4. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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