November 4
November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining.
Events
1500-1899
1900-1899
- 1918 - World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
- 1918 - The German Revolution began when forty-thousand
sailors took over the port in Kiel.
- 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 - 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 Marshal Erwin Rommel leads
his forces on a five-month retreat.
- 1948 - T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 1952 - U.S. presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D.
Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
- 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.
- 1957 - The Soviet Union launches
Sputnik 2 with a dog named Laika on
board, becoming the first country to launch a living creature into orbit. The capsule was not designed to be retrievable and she
died a few hours later from stress and overheating.
- 1960 - Filming wraps on The
Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable (this was the last film either performed in).
- 1966 - Two thirds of Florence, Italy are submerged as the Arno and Po rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless rennaisance artworks and books are
destroyed.
- 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).
- 1980 - U.S. presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger Ronald Reagan
defeats incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter by a wide margin.
- 1986 - The Iran-Contra
scandal is first made public in Lebanese magazine "Al Shiraa".
- 1993 - Jean Chrétien takes
office as Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1993 - Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1993 - A series of fires destroy 1000 homes in southern California, causing
between 500 million and 1 billion USD of damage. Half of the fires turn out to be
arson.
- 1995 - After attending a peace rally in Tel
Aviv's Kings Square, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is mortally wounded by an extreme right-wing Israeli assassin. He dies of his wounds later that
night in a Tel Aviv Hospital.
2000-2099
Births
1400-1899
1900-1999
- 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
- 1932 - Thomas Klestil,
president of Austria (d. 2004)
- 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 - Kathy Griffin,
comedienne, actress
- 1961 - Ralph Macchio, actor
- 1969 - Matthew
McConaughey, American actor
- 1969 - P. Diddy, American rap musician
- 1972 - Luis Figo, Portuguese football
star
Deaths
1600-1899
1900-1999
- 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
- 1968 - Michel Kikoine,
Belarus painter (b. 1892)
- 1980 - Elsie MacGill,
aeronautical engineer, "Queen of the Hurricanes"
- 1982 - Dominique Dunne,
actress (Poltergeist) (b. 1959)
- 1986 - Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician
- 1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel
2000-2099
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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