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Today in History October 4

1914 The first German Zeppelin raids London.

1927 Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting the heads of 4 US presidents on Mount Rushmore.

1957 Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite, is launched, beginning the "space race." The satellite, built by Valentin Glushko, weighed 184 pounds and was launched by a converted Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). Sputnik orbited the earth every 96 minutes at a maximum height of 584 miles. In 1958, it reentered the earth's atmosphere and burned up.

1963 Hurricane Flora storms through the Caribbean, killing 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.

1968 Cambodia admits that the Viet Cong use their country for sanctuary.

1993 Russia's constitutional crisis over President Boris Yeltsin's attempts to dissolve the legislature: the army violently arrests civilian protesters occupying government buildings.

2004 SpaceShipOne, which had achieved the first privately funded human space flight on June 21, wins the Ansari X Prize for the first non-government organization to successfully launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space.


Born on October 4

1923 Charlton Heston, American film actor.

1937 Jackie Collins, novelist whose books have sold over 500 million copies (Hollywood Wives, Drop Dead Beautiful).


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