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Today in History – October 4

1992 – El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747 cargo plane crashes into apartment buildings near Amsterdam.

1992-10-04 - Bijlmer disaster site

2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first private manned spacecraft to exceed an altitude of 328,000 feet twice within the span of a 14 day period, thus claiming the ten million dollar Ansari X-Prize.

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