Space · October 4, 1957
69 years ago
The Space Race (Russian: космическая гонка, romanized: kosmicheskaya gonka, IPA:) was a 20th-century competition between the Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
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The 70th anniversary falls on October 4, 2027.
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1923–2008The Battle of Cable Street was a series of clashes that took place at several locations in the East End of London on Sunday 4 October 1936. The British Union of Fascists (BUF), led by Oswald Mosley, announced a march to celebrate the fourth anniversary of their organisation.
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The current Constitution of France was adopted on 4 October 1958. It is typically called the Constitution of the Fifth Republic (French: la Constitution de la Cinquième République), and it replaced the Constitution of the Fourth Republic of 1946, keeping its preamble.
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On 4 October 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747-200 cargo aircraft of the Israeli airline El Al, crashed into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer (colloquially "Bijlmer") neighbourhood of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The accident is known in Dutch as the Bijlmerramp ("Bijlmer disaster").
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A caustic waste reservoir chain collapsed at the Ajkai Timföldgyár alumina plant in Ajka, Veszprém County, in western Hungary in October 2010.
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