Former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien is expected to make “a full and complete recovery” after he underwent quadruple heart bypass surgery Wednesday at the Montreal Heart Institute.
The 73-year-old Chretien, who prides himself on remaining in excellent physical condition, reportedly was playing golf Monday with a heart specialist and after the former prime minister mentioned [...]

Tucked away in his briefcase were the secrets of his past - fragments of his life that he kept hidden for decades.
Alex was forced to keep his Jewish identity hidden
In 1997, after raising a family in Melbourne with his Australian bride, he finally revealed himself. He told how, at the age of five, he had [...]

10/4/1895 - 2/1/1966
American actor
(Go to obit.)
26 Louis X
10/4/1289 - 6/5/1316
King of Navarre (1305-14) and king of France (1314-6)
61 Charles IX
10/4/1550 - 10/30/1611
King of Sweden (1604-11)
85 Lord Richard Cromwell
10/4/1626 - 7/12/1712
English lord protector (1658-9)
60 Jean Francois Millet
10/4/1814 - 1/20/1875
French painter
70 Rutherford Birchard Hayes
10/4/1822 - 1/17/1893
19th president of the United States (1877-81)
48 Frederic Remington
10/4/1861 - 12/26/1909
American artist; [...]

On Oct. 4, 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit. (Go to article.)
1777 George Washington’s troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Penn., resulting in heavy American casualties.
1822 Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th president of the United States, was born in Delaware, Ohio.
1895 Silent film comedian [...]