Four days after his birth, Apollo killed the chthonic dragon Python, which lived in Delphi beside the Castalian Spring.

Four days later, Hargrove was dismissed as manager.

Four days after Andropov's death, on 9 February 1984, Chernenko was elected as the party's General Secretary.

Four days later, Bowie and Iman were married in Switzerland.

Four days later, he wrote to Moore, suggesting the pseudonyms P. S. Burton ( a name he used when tramping ), Kenneth Miles, George Orwell, and H. Lewis Allways.

Four days later, on, when the Ottoman fleet again sallied from the straits towards Lemnos, it was defeated for a second time in the Naval Battle of Lemnos.

By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.

Nijmegen is famous for the International Four Day March Nijmegen (, informally Nijmeegse Vierdaagse ), an annual event starting on the third Tuesday in July, comprising four days of walking ( distances ranging from 30 to 50 km a day ), and the accompanying festivities ( the Vierdaagsefeesten including the independent festival de-Affaire ), which have been drawing the largest crowds for any Dutch event in the past few years.

* 1977 – German Autumn: Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board.

Four days later, on April 23, 1995, Clinton spoke from Oklahoma City.

Four days before the Exodus, the Hebrews were commanded to set aside a lamb.

Four days later, pope and cardinals had to flee from Rome before the imperial prefect of the Eternal City, and at Terracina, in spite of all protests, Victor laid aside the papal insignia and once more retired to Monte Cassino, where he remained nearly a whole year.

Four days later, Parks was tried on charges of disorderly conduct and violating a local ordinance.

Four occur in fall, in the seventh month, and are also called Shabbaton: Trumpets ; Atonement, " Sabbath of Sabbaths "; and the first and eighth days of Tabernacles.

Four days later, the rest of the main cast was announced, though the character names would not be announced until the next day.

Four days after its introduction, the Stationers ' held an emergency meeting to agree to petition the Commons-this was because the bill did not contain any reference to books as property, eliminating their monopoly on copying.

Four days later, Henry had More imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Four of these fall on the solstices and equinoxes and are known as " quarter days " or " Lesser Sabbats ".

* July 10 – Four days after the death of her cousin King Edward VI of England, Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen of England – a position she holds for the next nine days.

Four days later, the weary and dispirited column was surrounded near Krugersdorp within sight of Johannesburg.

Four days after their retreat, on 16 August a grossly outnumbered Prussian force of 30, 000 men of III Corps ( of the 2nd Army ) under General Konstantin von Alvensleben, found the French Army near Vionville, east of Mars-la-Tour.

Four days later, Sherman issued his Special Field Orders, No. 15.

Four days later, on Good Friday, he was buried beside the river Dwyfor in Llanystumdwy.

Four days later however Vlaar told the public that he would eventually be joining Villa, as he had agreed personal terms and would sign for Villa subject to him passing a medical.

A brief passage in The Big Four furnishes possible information about Poirot's birth or at least childhood in or near the town of Spa, Belgium: " But we did not go into Spa itself.

Four times he invaded Syria and Canaan, and he spent three years thoroughly subduing the countries of " the west " to unite them with Mesopotamia " into a single empire.

The Greek Orthodox branch of Christianity continues to use the Greek translation ( the Septuagint ), but when a Latin translation ( called the Vulgate ) was made for the Western church, Kingdoms was first retitled the Book of Kings, parts One to Four, and eventually both Kings and Samuel were separated into two books each.

In classical Chinese astronomy, the northern sky is divided geometrically, into five " enclosures " and twenty-eight mansions along the ecliptic, grouped into Four Symbols of seven asterisms each.

Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned ; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public body established in 1990, coming into operation in 1993.

It's a pleasure to be able to say to you: Welcome to Channel Four ", before heading into a montage of clips from its programmes set to the station's signature tune, " Fourscore ", written by Lord David Dundas, which would form the basis of the station's jingles for its first decade.

The Four Islands is the first scenario introduced where new mechanics introduced to Seafarers is brought into the forefront.

Indeed, these Four Freedoms were explicitly incorporated into the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which reads, " Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed the highest aspiration of the common people ,...."

* 1994 – Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edward Munch's iconic painting The Scream.

Four years later, four nations met in Geneva and formed the organization which has grown into the Red Cross, with a key stated aim of " aid to sick and wounded soldiers in the field ".

Here in painted an eleven-panel altarpiece for the Freiburg Cathedral, still intact today, depicting scenes from the life of the Virgin, including, The Annunciation, The Visitation, The Nativity, The Flight into Egypt, The Crucifixion, Four Saints and The Donators.

Four years later it found its way into a New York Times op-ed:

Four cars were turned into a mobile showroom of the Swedish design.

In the process, Richards relocated Doom from Hell into a pocket dimension of his own design, and although Doom used his consciousness-switching abilities to escape, the death of his host body seemingly caused him to die as well, and the Fantastic Four pulled out of the country.

Four Kings: split into two pairs only without an Ace – else keep the four kings together with A-J or AQ, but split into 3 kings and AK top with Ace-10 or lower.

Four Queens: keep together with A-8 or better top, or into 3 Q ’ s and A-Q with an Ace-7 or less top, else split into two pairs of Queens with no ace.

As a Fisherman, a Thief and other locals relate the sight of the " Four Black Dragons " roaring through the sea, an extravagant Oriental caricature of the USS Powhatan pulls into harbor.

There was however much harsh treatment of POWs in Germany, as recorded by the American ambassador to Germany ( prior to America's entry into the war ), James W. Gerard, who published his findings in " My Four Years in Germany ".

Four lagoons holding chemical waste drained into the limestone aquifer.

In 1998, PolyGram was in turn sold to Seagram and merged into what is now one of the Big Four record labels, the Universal Music Group, the company that today holds the rights to the entire ABBA back catalogue.

Four years later the American Institute of Electrical Engineers ( AIEE ), later IEEE, entered into an agreement with the group to present the medal as its highest award.

While Vespasian was preparing to besiege the city of Jerusalem during the latter campaign, emperor Nero committed suicide, plunging the empire into a year of civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.