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November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years)
in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining.
Events
- 1576 - Eighty Years'
War: In Belgium, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
- 1864 - American Civil
War: Battle
of Johnsonville - At Johnsonville, Tennessee, troops under the command of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest bombard a Union
supply base with artillery and destroy millions of dollars in materiel.
- 1869 - The first issue of scientific journal Nature is published.
- 1884 - U.S. presidential election, 1884: Democrat Grover Cleveland
defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his
non-consecutive terms.
- 1889 - Menelek of
Shoa obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the Ethiopian nobility,
paving the way for him to be crowned emperor.
- 1918 - World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy
- 1921 - The Sturmabteilung or
SA is formally formed by Adolf Hitler
- 1922 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his
men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
- 1924 - Nellie Tayloe
Ross of Wyoming elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
- 1928 - At Park Central Hotel in Manhattan, Arnold Rothstein, New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot to death over a poker game.
- 1939 - World War II: US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the
Neutrality Act of
1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
- 1942 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein - Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshall Erwin Rommel leads
his forces on a five-month retreat.
- 1956 - Soviet troops invade
Hungary to crush the Hungarian revolution that started on October
23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
- 1948 - T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 1952 - U.S. presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D.
Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
- 1960 - Filming wraps on The
Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable (this was the last film either performed in).
- 1970 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United
States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
- 1979 - Iran hostage
crisis begins: Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and
take 90 hostages (63 of whom are American). They demanded that the United
States send the former shah back to Iran to stand trial.
- 1980 - U.S. presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger Ronald Reagan
defeats incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter by a wide margin.
- 1993 - Jean Chrétien takes
office as Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1995 - After attending a peace rally in Tel
Aviv's Kings Square, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is mortally wounded by a right-wing Israeli gunman, and later dies.
- 2001 - Hurricane
Michelle hits Cuba destroying crops and thousands of homes.
- 2001 - The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established.
Births
- 1602 - Otto von
Guericke, inventor of a vacuum pump (d. 1686)
- 1744 - Johann Bernoulli, III, Swiss
mathematician
- 1765 - Pierre Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)
- 1874 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military
commander (d. 1920)
- 1879 - Will Rogers, American humorist and entertainer (d. 1935)
- 1909 - Skeeter Webb, Professional
Baseball Player (d. 1986)
- 1912 - Vadim Salmanov,
composer (d. 1978)
- 1914 - Martin Balsam, actor (d.
1996)
- 1916 - Walter Cronkite,
news broadcaster
- 1918 - Art Carney, actor (d. 2003)
- 1923 - Freddy Heineken,
Dutch businessman (d. 2002)
- 1929 - Doris Roberts,
actress
- 1937 - Loretta Swit, American actress
- 1944 - Scherrie Payne,
singer; member of The Supremes
- 1946 - Robert
Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989)
- 1946 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
- 1955 - Matti Vanhanen, prime
minister of Finland
- 1961 - Ralph Macchio,
actor
- 1969 - Matthew
McConaughey, American actor
- 1969 - P. Diddy, American rap musician
- 1972 - Luis Figo, Portuguese football
star
Deaths
- 1652 - Jean de La Faille, French mathematician
- 1698 - Rasmus Bartholin,
Danish mathematician
- 1847 - Felix
Mendelssohn, German composer
- 1870 - Comte de
Lautreamont, poet, writer
- 1924 - Gabriel Fauré,
French composer
- 1928 - Arnold Rothstein,
gambler
- 1930 - Buddy Bolden, American jazz musician (b. 1877)
- 1955 - Cy Young, American baseball player
- 1956 - Art Tatum, American jazz musician
- 1980 - Elsie MacGill,
aeronautical engineer, "Queen of the Hurricanes"
- 1986 - Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician
- 1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel
- 2000 - Ian Sneddon, British mathematician
Holidays
- Italy - celebration of the victory on WWI, the
day of the Armed Forces
- Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Qudrat (Power) - First day of the 13th
month of the Bahá'í Calendar
November 3 - November 5 -
October 4 - December 4 - more
historical anniversaries
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