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| October 4th, 2004 | Event | SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight. |  
| October 4th, 2003 | Event | Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded. |  
| October 4th, 2001 | Event | Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed. |  
| October 4th, 1997 | Event | The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken. |  
| October 4th, 1993 | Event | Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside. |  
| October 4th, 1992 | Event | The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique. |  
| October 4th, 1992 | Event | El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground. |  
| October 4th, 1991 | Event | The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature. |  
| October 4th, 1988 | Event | U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud. |  
| October 4th, 1985 | Event | Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA. |  
 
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