October 4 Historical Events

The following events took place on October 4. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 53 events. Showing 31 - 53.

• 1957
  Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
• 1957
  Leave It to Beaver premieres on CBS.
• 1958
  Fifth Republic of France is established.
• 1960
  Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston’s Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board.
• 1963
  Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
• 1965
  Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first Pope to visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere.
• 1966
  Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
• 1967
  Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
• 1974
  Founding of the New Democracy party in Greece.
• 1976
  Official launch of the InterCity 125 high speed train.
• 1983
  Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph, driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.

• 1985
  The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
• 1988
  U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
• 1991
  The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
• 1992
  The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
• 1992
  El Al Flight 1862: An El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
• 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.
• 1997
  The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. A Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million stolen cash.
• 2001
  NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
• 2001
  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. Seventy-eight people are killed.
• 2003
  Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: Twenty-one Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
• 2004
  SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
• 2010
  The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severely contaminated.