November 4
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November 4 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 56 days remaining after November 4 until the end of the year.
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[change] Events
- 1493 - Christopher Columbus lands on Guadeloupe.
- 1677 – Future queen Mary II of England marries future king William III of England.
- 1786 - Jean Francois de La Perouse lands on an island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, which he names after Jacques Necker.
- 1884 - Grover Cleveland is elected to his first term as President of the United States.
- 1918 – World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
- 1921 – Prime Minister of Japan Hara Takashi is murdered.
- 1922 – A team of archaeologists led by Howard Carter finds the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt.
- 1924 - Calvin Coolidge is elected to continue as President of the United States, after he had served out Warren G. Harding's term.
- 1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected President of the United States.
- 1955 – The rebuilt Vienna State Opera is re-opened.
- 1956 – Soviet troops crush the Hungarian Revolution. Thousands are killed.
- 1980 – Ronald Reagan is elected President of the United States, defeating Jimmy Carter.
- 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is murdered, being shot dead by Yigal Amir.
- 2005 – Nintendo's Game Boy Micro is released in Europe.
- 2006 - A widespread power failure affects parts of Western Europe.
- 2008 – Barack Obama wins the vote to become President of the United States, over Senator John McCain.
[change] Births
- 1448 - King Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495)
- 1470 – Edward V, King of England (d. 1483?)
- 1575 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)
- 1631 – Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, daughter of Charles I of England, and mother of William III (d. 1660)
- 1873 - G. E. Moore, English philosopher (d. 1958)
- 1879 – Will Rogers, American humorist (d. 1935)
- 1890 - Klabund, German writer (d. 1928)
- 1896 – Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines (d. 1971)
- 1897 - C. B. van Niel, Dutch microbiologist (d. 1985)
- 1899 - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourg cyclist (d. 1985)
- 1908 – Jozef Rotblat, Polish physicist (d. 2005)
- 1909 – Bert Patenaude, American footballer (d. 1974)
- 1911 – Dixie Lee, American actress, dancer and singer (d. 1952)
- 1916 – Walter Cronkite, American news reporter (d. 2009)
- 1916 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman, inventor of the Barbie doll (d. 2002)
- 1918 – Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1930 – Doris Roberts, American actress
- 1932 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
- 1932 – Albert Reynolds, Irish Taoiseach
- 1933 - C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian military leader and politician (d. 2011)
- 1946 – Laura Bush, former First Lady of the United States, wife of George W. Bush
- 1948 – Amadou Toumani Touré, President of Mali
- 1951 – Traian Basescu, President of Romania
- 1953 - Tina Theune, German footballer
- 1955 – Matti Vanhanen, former Prime Minister of Finland
- 1957 – Tony Abbott, Australian politician
- 1961 – Ralph Macchio, American actor
- 1961 – Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer
- 1963 – Lena Zavaroni, Scottish singer (d. 1999)
- 1963 – Horacio Elizondo, Argentine football referee
- 1969 – Sean Combs (P-Diddy), American rapper and producer
- 1969 – Matthew McConaughey, American actor
- 1971 - Perry Moore, American author and film producer (d. 2011)
- 1972 – Luis Figo, Portuguese footballer
- 1975 - Heather Tom, American actress
- 1976 - Daniel Bahr, German politician
- 1976 – Mario Melchiot, Dutch footballer
- 1982 - Kamila Skolimowska, Polish hammer thrower (d. 2009)
- 1985 – Marcell Jansen, German footballer
[change] Deaths
- 1847 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
- 1918 – Wilfred Owen, English poet (b. 1893)
- 1921 – Hara Takashi, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1865)
- 1924 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845)
- 1955 – Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
- 1974 – Bert Patenaude, American footballer (b. 1909)
- 1990 - David Stirling, British, founder of the SAS (b. 1915)
- 1994 – Sam Francis, American painter (b. 1923)
- 1995 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)
- 1995 – Yitzhak Rabin, 5th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1922)
- 2008 – Michael Crichton, American writer (b. 1942)
- 2010 – Eugenie Blanchard, French-Caribbean supercentenarian (b. 1896)
- 2011 - Alfonso Cano, Colombian FARC leader (b. 1948)
- 2011 - Andy Rooney, American journalist (b. 1919)
- 2011 - Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.. American physicist (b. 1915)
