4th October

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1535 – The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.

1883 – First run of the Orient Express.

1883 – First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.

1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.

1965 – Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first Pope to visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere.

1976 – Official launch of the InterCity 125 high speed train.

1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.

1988 – U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.

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.

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

2010 – 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.

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