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Russia launches Soyuz TM-25 with crewmembers Vasili Tsibliyev, Aleksandr Latzukin, and Reinhold Ewald.
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A US Marine Corps pilot is responsible for the death of 20 skiers when he snaps the cable suspending a gondola in Italy during a low altitude flight.
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John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, and sister in law are killed when the airplane Kennedy is piloting crashes near Martha's Vineyard.
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NASA launches the Hubble Space Telescope on board space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-30.
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October 7: NASA launches space shuttle Atlantis on a 10 day mission the International Space Station. This flight delivered the S1 truss segment. The crew of Atlantis was Jeffrey Ashby, Pamela Melroy, Sandra Mangus, Piers Sellers, David Wolf, and Fyodor Yurchikhin.
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volcano beneath Eyjafjallajökull, an ice cap in Iceland, began erupting, sending a volcanic ash cloud into the atmosphere
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It was good
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