WHAT HAPPENED ON 4. OCTOBER
Want to find out what all happened on 4. October

The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States. (4. October 1985)

U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud. (4. October 1988)

The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature. (4. October 1991)

The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique. (4. October 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. (4. October 1992)

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. (4. October 1993)

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. (4. October 1997)

NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. (4. October 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. 78 people are killed. (4. October 2001)

Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded. (4. October 2003)

SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space. (4. October 2004)

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. (4. October 2010)