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4 October

1535    The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.

1669    Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (died), Dutch painter (born 1606)

1795    Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a “Whiff of Grapeshot”, using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention).

1861    Frederic Remington (born), American painter (died 1909)

1876    Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.

1883    First run of the Express d’Orient from  Paris, Gare de l’Est, to Giurgiuin , Romania via Munich and Vienna

1903    Otto Weininger (died), Austrian philosopher (born 1880)

1904    Carl Josef Bayer (died), Austrian chemist (born 1847)

1904    Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (died), French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (born 1834)

1923    Charlton Heston (born), American actor (died 2008)

1927    Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore..

1928    Alvin Toffler (born), American journalist and author

1941     Norman Rockwell’s Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.

1943    H. Rap Brown (born), American activist

1946    Barney Oldfield (died), American race car driver (born 1878)

1947    Max Planck (died), German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1858)

1951     Henrietta Lacks (died), American patient, HeLa cells derived from her cervical cancer (born 1920)

1957    Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

1970    Janis Joplin (died), American singer-songwriter (Big Brother and the Holding Company) (born 1943)

1983    Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.

1988    U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.

1989    Secretariat (died), American race horse (born 1970)

1997    The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. A Federal Bureau of Investigationinvestigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.

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Interests include biological anthropology, evolution, social behavior, and human behavior. Conducted field research in the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya and on Angaur, Palau, Micronesia, as well as research with captive nonhuman primates at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Institute for Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya.
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