November
4
Events
November
4
1429 – Joan
of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's first wife) meets
Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother – they would later
marry.
1576 – Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp
(after three days the city is nearly destroyed).
1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince
of Orange. They would later jointly reign as William and Mary.
1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo is inaugurated.
1783 – W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first
time in Linz, Austria.
1791 – The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major
victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
1839 – The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion
against authority in mainland Britain.
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, discovers
the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
1852 – Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister
of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands 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.
1890 – City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level
tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
1918 – World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
1921 – The Sturmabteilung or SA, whose members were known as
"brownshirts", physically assault Adolf Hitler's opposition
after his speech in Munich.
1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated
in Tokyo.
1921 – The Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della
Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome.
1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his
men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley
of the Kings.
1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female
governor in the United States.
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.
1944 – World War II: Bitola Liberation Day
1952 – The United States government establishes the National
Security Agency.
1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna
State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1956 – Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution
against the Soviet Union, that started on October 23. Thousands
are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave
the country.
1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr.
Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever
observation in non-human animals.
1962 – In a test of the Nike-Hercules air defense missile, Shot
Dominic-Tightrope is successfully detonated 69,000 feet above
Johnston Island. It would also be the last atmospheric nuclear
test conducted by the United States.
1966 – The Arno River flooded Florence, Italy, to a maximum
depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying
millions of masterpieces of art and rare books.
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 is found in Los Angeles,
California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her
life.
1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday
caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are
used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis begins: a group of Iranians, mostly
students, invades the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages
(53 of whom are American).
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 – San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively
on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide
Web.
1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated
by an extremist Orthodox Israeli.
2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for
signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be
elected President of the United States.
2008 – Proposition 8 passes in California, revoking state recognition
of LGBT marriages.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Charles Borromeo (Roman Catholic Church)
Emeric of Hungary
Vitalis and Agricola (Roman Catholic Church)
Our Lady of Kazan (Russian Orthodox Church)
November 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of Love (1970s Egypt)
Earliest day on which Return Day can fall, while November 10
is the latest; celebrated on Thursday following the first Monday
of November of every even numbered year. (Georgetown, Delaware)
Feast of Qudrat (Power), first day of the month of Qudrat of
the Bahá'í calendar (Bahá'í Faith)
Flag Day (Panama)
National Unity and Armed Forces Day or Giorno dell'Unità Nazionale
e Festa delle Forze Armate (Italy)
The first day of the Ludi Plebeii, celebrated until November
17 (Roman Empire)
Unity Day (Russia)
Yitzhak Rabin Memorial (unofficial, but widely commemorated)
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