What happened on 4 October?

7 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1957 Sputnik launch Soviet Union puts the first artificial satellite in orbit; opens the Space Age.
2. 1957 The Space Race The US-Soviet rivalry in spaceflight, from Sputnik to the Apollo-Soyuz handshake in orbit.
3. 1958 French Fifth Republic De Gaulle's new constitution establishes a strong presidency; current French republic.
4. 1798 Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth/Coleridge) Joint volume launching English Romantic poetry.
5. 1798 Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Romantic ballad opening Lyrical Ballads, co-authored with Wordsworth.
6. 1809 Spencer Perceval's premiership Perceval holds the war effort together and is shot dead in the lobby of the Commons, the only British PM to be assassinated.
7. 1936 Battle of Cable Street A hundred thousand East Londoners — Jewish, Irish, socialist — block Mosley's blackshirt march through the East End under the cry 'They shall not pass', forcing the BUF to abandon