A cargo plane crashes into an apartment building near an airport in Amsterdam, Holland, on October 4, 1992.

On October 4, 1990, Beverly Hills, 90210, a TV drama about a group of teenagers living in upscale Beverly Hills, California, debuts on Fox; it will eventually become one of the top-rated shows on the new “fourth network,” which launched in 1986.

Televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted on federal charges of mail and wire fraud and of conspiring to defraud the public.

On October 4, 1955, the Brooklyn Dodgers win the World Series at last, beating the New York Yankees 2-0.

Legendary blues singer Bessie Smith is buried near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 4, 1937.

On October 4, 1927, sculpting begins on the face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota.

In the early hours of October 4, 1918, German Chancellor Max von Baden, appointed by Kaiser Wilhelm II just three days earlier, sends a telegraph message to the administration of President Woodrow Wilson in Washington, D.

On October 4, 1895, 21-year-old Englishman Horace Rawlins wins the first U.

President Abraham Lincoln observes a balloon demonstration near Washington, D.

On October 4, 1777, 11,000 Patriots under General George Washington attempt an early morning attack on British General William Howe’s 9,000 British troops at Germantown, Pennsylvania, five miles north of the British-occupied capital city of Philadelphia.