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Sunday, 04 October 2026

2004

''SpaceShipOne'' wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.

2003

Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.

2001

NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.

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.

1997

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.

1993

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.

1992

The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.

El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.

1991

The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.

1988

U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.

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