This Day In History

October 4th

1895  19-year-old Horace Rawlin won the 1st US Open golf tournament held at Newport Golf Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
1957  Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, was launched by the former Soviet Union (now Russia).
1965  The first visit by a pope to the United States by Pope Paul VI, who arrived at Kennedy International Airport in New York City.
1992  A 16-year civil war ends when the Mozambique government signs a cease-fire with leaders of the Mozambican National Resistance (MNR).
1993  After tank assault lasting 10 hours on the Russian parliament building by rebel parliamentarians (led by Vice-President Alexander Rutskoi and Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov) later surrender to Russian president Boris Yeltsin.

1822  19th US President Rutherford B. Hayes
1895  Silent Film Star Buster (Joseph) Keaton, also grandfather of actor Michael Keaton
1924  Actor Charleton Heston (birth name Charles Carter)
1941  Author Jackie Collins
1946  Actress Susan Sarandon
1949  Actor Armand Assante

1949

• You're Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone

• Room Full of Roses - Sammy Kaye Orchestra with Don Cornell

• Someday - Vaughn Monroe

• Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting &Jimmy Wakely

1959

• Sleep Walk - Santo & Johnny

• Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin

• Put Your Head on My Shoulder - Paul Anka

• The Three Bells - The Browns

1969

• Sugar, Sugar - The Archies

• Jean - Oliver

• Little Woman - Bobby Sherman

• Since I Met You Baby - Sonny James

1979

• My Sharona - The Knack

• Sad Eyes - Robert John

• Rise - Herb Alpert

• It Must be Love - Don Williams

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