November 4
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November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 57 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events [change]
- 1493 - Christopher Columbus lands on Guadeloupe.
- 1501 - Catherine of Aragon meets Arthur Tudor, the brother of Henry VIII of England.
- 1576 - Eighty Years' War: Spain captures Antwerp, Flanders.
- 1677 – Future queen Mary II of England marries future king William III of England.
- 1783 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
- 1786 - Jean Francois de La Perouse lands on an island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, which he names after Jacques Necker.
- 1847 - Scottish James Young Simpson discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
- 1852 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes Prime Minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which later expands to become Italy.
- 1861 - The University of Washington is founded.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Johnson - Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars of material.
- 1884 - Grover Cleveland is elected to his first term as President of the United States.
- 1890 - London's deep-level railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
- 1918 – World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
- 1921 – Prime Minister of Japan Hara Takashi is murdered.
- 1921 - Italy's unknown soldier is buried in the Fatherland Altar in Rome.
- 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.
- 1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first woman elected governor in a US State.
- 1942 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein - Disobeying a direct order from Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces to a five-month retreat.
- 1952 - The United States Government creates the National Security Agency.
- 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.
- 1960 - In Tanzania, Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees making tools, the first-ever such observation in non-humans.
- 1966 - The Arno River in Florence, Italy floods at record levels, making thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books.
- 1979 - The Iran hostage crisis begins - A group of Iranians, mostly students, invades United States Embassy in Tehran, Iran, and takes 90 people hostage, including 53 Americans.
- 1980 – Ronald Reagan is elected President of the United States, defeating Jimmy Carter.
- 1993 - A China Airlines Boeing 747 overruns Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.
- 1994 - The first conference focusing exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web is held in San Francisco, California.
- 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. Obama becomes the US' first African American President.
- 2010 - Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing 68 on board.
Births [change]
- 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)
- 1640 - Carlo Mannelli, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1697)
- 1661 - Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)
- 1732 - Thomas Johnson, Governor of Maryland (d. 1819)
- 1765 - Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)
- 1783 - Gaspard Gourgaud, French historian (d. 1852)
- 1845 - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (d. 1883)
- 1853 - Anna Baverova, Czech physician (d. 1924)
- 1873 - G. E. Moore, English philosopher (d. 1958)
- 1874 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (d. 1920)
- 1874 - Charles Despiau, French sculptor (d. 1946)
- 1879 – Will Rogers, American humorist (d. 1935)
- 1883 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general (d. 1953)
- 1884 - Harry Ferguson, British aviator and inventor (d. 1960)
- 1884 - George Underwood, American athlete (d. 1943)
- 1887 - Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist, philanthropist and scientific research patron (d. 1975)
- 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)
- 1900 - Lucretiu Patrascanu, Romanian Communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954)
- 1901 - Bangja, Crown Princess Euimin of Korea (d. 1989)
- 1904 - Tadeusz Zylinski, Polish technician and textilist (d. 1967)
- 1906 - Sterling North, American author (d. 1974)
- 1907 - Draga Matkovic, German concert pianist
- 1908 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish physicist (d. 2005)
- 1908 - Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (d. 1997)
- 1909 – Bert Patenaude, American footballer (d. 1974)
- 1909 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (d. 1986)
- 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)
- 1928 - Larry Bunker, American jazz musician (d. 2005)
- 1930 – Doris Roberts, American actress
- 1932 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
- 1932 – Albert Reynolds, Irish Taoiseach
- 1933 - Charles K. Kao, Chinese physicist
- 1933 - C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian military leader and politician (d. 2011)
- 1939 - Michael Meecher, British politician
- 1944 - Scherrie Payne, American singer
- 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
- 1953 - Carlos Gutierrez, American politician
- 1953 - Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian racing driver
- 1954 - Chris Difford, rock music singer
- 1955 – Matti Vanhanen, former Prime Minister of Finland
- 1956 - James Honeyman-Scott, English musician (d. 1982)
- 1957 – Tony Abbott, Australian politician
- 1960 - Kathy Griffin, American comedienne
- 1961 – Ralph Macchio, American actor
- 1961 – Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer
- 1963 – Lena Zavaroni, Scottish singer (d. 1999)
- 1963 – Horacio Elizondo, Argentine football referee
- 1963 - Rosario Flores, Spanish singer and actress
- 1963 - Michel Therrien, Canadian ice hockey player
- 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
- 1980 - Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby player
- 1981 - Guy Martin, English motorcycle racer
- 1982 - Kamila Skolimowska, Polish hammer thrower (d. 2009)
- 1984 - Dustin Brown, American ice hockey player
- 1985 – Marcell Jansen, German footballer
Deaths [change]
- 1652 - Jean-Claude de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)
- 1669 - Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603)
- 1698 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
- 1801 - William Shippen, American physician and Continental Congress (b. 1712)
- 1847 - Thieu Tri, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1807)
- 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)
- 1968 - Michel Kikoine, Belarussian painter (b. 1892)
- 1974 – Bert Patenaude, American footballer (b. 1909)
- 1982 - Jacques Tati, French actor and director (b. 1907)
- 1986 - Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)
- 1988 - Kleanthis Vikelidis, Greek footballer (b. 1916)
- 1990 - David Stirling, British, founder of the SAS (b. 1915)
- 1992 - George Klein, Canadian inventor (b. 1904)
- 1994 – Sam Francis, American painter (b. 1923)
- 1995 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)
- 1995 – Yitzhak Rabin, 5th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1922)
- 1997 - Richard Hooker, American writer (b. 1924)
- 2008 – Michael Crichton, American writer (b. 1942)
- 2009 - Hubertus Brandenburg, German-born Swedish Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1923)
- 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)
