October 4

People born on this day are Libra.

On this day in history01

1966
Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
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1967
Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son.
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1983
Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
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1992
El Al Flight 1862 crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
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1993
Battle of Mogadishu occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two UN Peacekeepers and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians.
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1993
Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.
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2001
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
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2003
The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
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2004
SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
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2006
WikiLeaks is launched.
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2010
The Ajka plant accident in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers.
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2017
Joint Nigerien-American Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo.
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