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).

1677 - The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later be known as William and Mary.
1842 - Abraham Lincoln, future US President, marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.
1852 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour became the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expanded to become Italy.
1861 - The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville - Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
1869 - The first issue of the 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 two 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.
1890 - City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
1899 - Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams is published.
1918 - World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
1918 - The German Revolution begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
1921 - The Sturmabteilung or SA is formally formed by Adolf Hitler
1921 - Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi assassinated in Tokyo.
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 dead over a poker game.
1939 - World War II: U.S. 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.
1955 - The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II.
1956 - Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
1960 - Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable -- the last film for both.
1966 - Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the Arno and Po rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless Renaissance artworks and books are destroyed.
1970 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
1970 - Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
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 - Chief Justice Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by the electorate from the Supreme Court of California for their opposition to capital punishment.
1989 - The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.
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.
1993 - A China Airlines Boeing 747 overran Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.
1994 - San Francisco: First conference that focused exlusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
1995 - Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by an extreme right-wing Israeli.
2001 - Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba, destroying crops and thousands of homes.
2001 - The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established.
2003 - The largest-ever solar flare is recorded.
2003 - Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy becomes the first person indicted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He was eventually acquitted.

Births

1448 - King Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495)
1470 - King Edward V of England, one of the two princes in the Tower
1575 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)
1631 - Mary of Orange, eldest daughter of Charles I of England and mother of William III of England (d. 1660)
1661 - Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)
1740 - Augustus Montague Toplady, author of hymn, "Rock of Ages"
1765 - Pierre Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)
1836 - Henry J. Lutcher, Business leader (d. 1912)
1845 - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary
1874 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (d. 1920)
1879 - Will Rogers, American humorist and entertainer (d. 1935)
1883 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (d. 1953)
1901 - Princess Bang-ja of Korea (d. 1989)
1908 - Józef Rotblat, Polish physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2005)
1909 - Skeeter Webb, baseball player (d. 1986)
1912 - Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (d. 1978)
1913 - Gig Young, American actor (d. 1978)
1914 - Martin Balsam, American actor (d. 1996)
1916 - Walter Cronkite, American news broadcaster
1918 - Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003)
1922 - Benno Besson, Swiss actor and film director (d. 2006)
1923 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (d. 2002)
1929 - Doris Roberts, American actress
1930 - Dick Groat, baseball player
1932 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
1937 - Loretta Swit, American actress
1937 - Michael Wilson, Canadian politician and diplomat
1944 - Scherrie Payne, American singer (The Supremes)
1946 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
1946 - Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989)
1951 - Traian Băsescu, President of Romania
1953 - Carlos Gutierrez, American politician
1955 - Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland
1956 - Jordan Rudess, Keyboard player (Dream Theater)
1961 - Kathy Griffin, American comedienne and actress
1961 - Edward Knight, American composer
1961 - Daron Hagen, American composer, conductor, and collaborative pianist
1961 - Ralph Macchio, American actor
1961 - Les Sampou, American musician
1961 - Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1962 - Jeff Probst, American TV show's host "Survivor"
1965 - Wayne Static, American singer and guitarist (Static-X)
1967 - Eric Karros, Baseball player
1968 - Carlos Baerga, Baseball player
1969 - Matthew McConaughey, American actor
1969 - Sean Jean "Diddy" Combs, American rapper
1972 - Luís Figo, Portuguese footballer
1972 - Tabassum Hashmi, Indian actress
1974 - Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Vocalist of At the Drive-in and The Mars Volta
1975 - Eduard Kokcharov, Russian handball player
1976 - Mario Melchiot, Dutch footballer
1978 - Carmen Cali, Professional baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals
1978 - John Grabow, Professional baseball player
1979 - Audrey Hollander, American pornographic actress
1985 - Marcell Jansen, German footballer
1986 - Alexz Johnson, Canadian singer

Deaths

1254 - John III Ducas Vatatzes, Emperor of the Empire of Nicaea (b. circa 1192).
1411 - Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxonia (b. 1384)
1584 - Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (b. 1538)
1652 - Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (b. 1597)
1669 - Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603)
1698 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
1702 - John Benbow, English admiral (b. 1653)
1704 - Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654)
1781 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (b. 1721)
1801 - William Shippen, American physician and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1712)
1847 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
1856 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (b. 1797)
1893 - Pierre Tirard, French politician (b. 1827)
1918 - Wilfred Owen, English poet (b. 1893)
1924 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845)
1928 - Arnold Rothstein, American gambler (b. 1882)
1930 - Buddy Bolden, American musician (b. 1877)
1955 - Cy Young, baseball player (b. 1867)
1957 - Shoghi Effendi, Guarduan of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1897)
1968 - Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892)
1980 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1905)
1982 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (b. 1959)
1986 - Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)
1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b. 1922)
1995 - Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (suicide) (b. 1925)
1999 - Malcolm Marshall, West Indian cricketer (b. 1958)
2003 - Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (b. 1923)
2005 - Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet & journalist (b. 1980)

Holidays

Panama's Flag Day
Roman festivals - start of the Ludi Plebeii
Roman Catholic Saints - Feast day of the following Roman Catholic saints:
Also see November 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Qudrat (Power) - First day of the 13th month of the Bahá'í calendar
Italy - celebration of victory in World War I, the date of the Armed Forces
Russia - Day of People's Unity (or National Unity Day)

External links

BBC: On This Day

November 3 - November 5 - October 4 - December 4 - more historical anniversaries

Gourt Home::Gourt :: November 4

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