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October 4th, 2004EventSpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
October 4th, 2003EventMaxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
October 4th, 2001EventSiberia 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, 1997EventThe 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, 1993EventRussian 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, 1992EventThe Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
October 4th, 1992EventEl 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, 1991EventThe Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
October 4th, 1988EventU.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
October 4th, 1985EventFree Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA.

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