TIME TRAVELING, October 4: 1535 The first complete Modern English translation of the Bible, compiled by Myles Coverdale, is published. 1606 Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn dies at age 63 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 1824 Following the overthrow of Emperor Agustin I, the Mexican republic is declared and adopts a constitution. 1918 German Chancellor Max von Baden sends a telegraph to President Woodrow Wilson in Washington, D.C., requesting an armistice between Germany and Allied powers in World War I. 1927 Sculpting begins on Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota to create the faces of four presidents (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt). It will take Gutzon Borglum and his team of workers 12 years to finish the images. 1931 The “Dick Tracy” comic strip, created by Chester Gould, makes its debut in the Detroit Daily Mirror. 1937 Some 7,000 mourners attend the funeral of legendary blues singer Bessie Smith, who was killed a few days before when the Packard she was driving hit a parked truck near Coahoma, Miss. 1940 Adolf Hitler meets with Benito Mussolini at Brenner Pass in the Alps to ask for Italy’s help in fighting the British. 1957 TV comedy “Leave it to Beaver” premiers on CBS TV starring Jerry Mathers as Beaver, Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver’s brother Wally. Some 234 episodes are produced before the show’s cancellation in 1963. 1957 The “space race” gets under way when the Soviet Union launches “Sputnik I” into orbit around the Earth. The first manmade satellite to enter space, Sputnik I stays aloft for three months. 1957 Jimmy Hoffa is elected president of the Teamsters Union. 1965 Pope Paul VI becomes the first reigning pontiff to visit the Western Hemisphere, traveling to the United States to address the United Nations General Assembly, conduct a mass, and meet with President Lyndon B. Johnson. During his 14-hour visit in the U.S., one million people see the Pope in person and another 100 million view him on TV. 1966 While addressing 150,000 people in St. Peter’s Square in Rome, Pope Paul VI calls for an end to the war in Vietnam through negotiations, indicating the mounting antiwar sentiment growing in the U.S. and abroad. 1970 Rock-and-roll legend Janis Joplin dies of an accidental heroin overdose at age 27 in a Los Angeles hotel room during work to put the finishing touches on “Pearl,” an album that would, after her death, be the biggest of her career. 1976 Barbara Walters becomes the first female network co-anchor and the highest paid journalist of the time when she joins Henry Reasoner at the anchor desk of the “ABC Evening News.” 1988 Televangelist Jim Bakker, founder of Praise the Lord (PTL) Ministries, is indicted on federal charges of mail and wire fraud and of conspiring to defraud the public. 1997 Hundreds of thousands of men attend a Promise Keepers rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., reported to be the largest gathering of men in American history. 2001 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hits his 70th home run of the season to tie Mark McGuire’s major league season record and also move past Reggie Jackson on the all-time list with his 564th career home run. 2001 Rickey Henderson of the San Diego Padres scores his 2,246th career run to break the Most Career Runs record held by Ty Cobb (who played from 1905 to 1928).
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