October 4, 2004
- Boxing: Ricardo Mayorga retires from boxing, following his eighth round knockout loss against Félix Trinidad.
- National Football League Week 4, Monday Night Football: The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Baltimore Ravens 27 to 24.
- Football: FC Zürich striker Cleonicio dos Santos Silva, better known as Renato, is killed by gunmen attempting to steal his car in Rio de Janeiro. His girlfriend is also injured. (ESPN)
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)