{"id":18393,"date":"2022-10-04T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=187635"},"modified":"2022-10-04T07:24:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T05:24:08","slug":"4-october-on-this-day-in-history","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/4-october-on-this-day-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"4 October: On this day in history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Elinor Evans\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 04 October 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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4 October 1661<\/h3>\n

Death, on her 36th birthday, of Jacqueline Pascal \u2013 sister of French philosopher and fellow child prodigy Blaise Pascal \u2013 and a leading figure in the Jansenist Abbey of Port-Royal, Paris.<\/p>\n

4 October 1809<\/h3>\n

Spencer Perceval<\/a> became British prime minister following the resignation of the ailing Lord Portland. In 1812 he became the only British PM to have been assassinated when he was shot in the lobby of the House of Commons.<\/p>\n

4 October 1830<\/h3>\n

Belgium\u2019s provisional government declared independence from the Netherlands. In January 1831 an international conference in London declared the dissolution of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

4 October\u00a01842<\/h3>\n

Soldier and colonial governor Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole died at Highfield House, Hampshire. He was one of Wellington\u2019s most reliable subordinates during the Peninsular War, but missed the Waterloo campaign because he was on his honeymoon.<\/p>\n

4 October 1883<\/h3>\n

William Alexander Smith, an exporter of shawls, plaids and tartans and a lieutenant in the First Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers, founds the first company of the Boys\u2019 Brigade in the North Woodside Mission Hall, Glasgow.<\/p>\n

4 October 1957<\/h3>\n

Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.<\/p>\n

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