On October 4, 1822, the 19th president of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, was born in Delaware, Ohio.
On October 4, 1957, James R. Hoffa was elected president of the union known as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
On October 4, 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit.
On October 4, 1957, my world came to an end.
On October 5, 1957, my life went on.
“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.” --Isaiah 53:3-4
