📅 October 4 in the Time Tunnel
What happened on October 4? Travel back in time and find out — then test yourself with the quiz.
🎉 Special days
- 🐾 World Animal Day
⏳ On this day in history
- 1883The famous Orient Express train made its first full journey
- 1927Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began carving Mount Rushmore in South Dakota
- 1957Sputnik 1 became the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth
- 1983Richard Noble set a land speed record of more than 630 miles per hour!
- 2004The private spacecraft SpaceShipOne won the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight
🎂 Born on October 4
- 🏀 Derrick Rose (1988) — basketball player
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October 4 quiz
In what year? 🚂 The famous Orient Express train made its first full journey
In what year? 🗿 Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began carving Mount Rushmore in South Dakota
In what year? 🛰️ Sputnik 1 became the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth
Which famous person was born on October 4?