What day of the week was October 4, 1918?

The day of the week October 4th, 1918 fell on was a Friday.

Kenichi Fukui the Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) was born on 04 October in 1918.

An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville the New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which were still being found as of 2007.