October 4, 1975saturday
Interior Security Forces held in check a land attack against the Beirut International Airport where 4 armed men tried to kidnap an airplane in order to go to Cairo.
October 4, 1978wednesday
The bombardments reached Bikfaya and Beit-Mery while in East Beirut there was a shortage of food and medications. The Security Council called for the urgent ending of the combats.
\_this day in full the books also date it 6 October 1978 \_on this day
\_what the books add
According to de Clerck and Malsagne, the Security Council's call for a ceasefire came on 6 October.
October 4, 1979thursday
A light earthquake shook the region of Saida without any victim.
October 4, 1979thursday
The Minister of Foreign affairs, Fouad Boutros, called upon the United Nations to end Israeli aggressions in the South, to freeze the activities of the Fedayin, to reinforce the UNIFL, and to dissociate the Lebanese problem from the regional crisis.
October 4, 1982monday
An assault was perpetrated against an Israeli bus in Aley killing seven persons.
October 4, 1987sunday
Fouad Lahoud, deputee of North Metn and President of the Parliamentary Commission of Defense, dies.
October 4, 1988tuesday
The Lebanese Forces announced an agreement on the unification of the forces in the East and took for the first time since 1975 control of the Northern Metn (barracks, offices, military positions), region considered as the fief of the former president Amine Gemayel.
\_this day in full \_on this day
\_what the books add
Hanf (p. 248, note 116) confirms that the Kataeb militia of the Metn kept some autonomy until October 1988; the Lebanese Forces took over Gemayel's institutions, such as the Maison du Futur and the daily Le Réveil (p. 613, note 4).