
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 (city) (after three days the city was nearly destroyed). * 1612 - Moscow China Town taken by Russian troops under command of Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski * 1677 - The future Mary II of England marries William III of England. They would later be known as William and Mary. * 1852 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour became the prime minister of Piedmont (Italy)-Kingdom of Sardinia, which soon expanded to become Italy. * 1861 - The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington, Washington as the Territorial University * 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville - Confederate States of America troops bombard a United States supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material. * 1869 - The first issue of the scientific journal ''Nature (journal)'' is published. * 1884 - U.S. presidential election, 1884: United States Democratic Party Grover Cleveland defeats United States Republican Party James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms. * 1889 - Menelik II of Ethiopia 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 London Underground railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell tube station. *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 * 1922 - In Egypt, United Kingdom 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 Delano Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Acts, 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: United States Republican Party Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats United States Democrat Party Adlai Stevenson. * 1956 - Soviet Union troops invade Hungary to crush the Hungarian Revolution, 1956 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 dies a few hours later from stress and overheating. * 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 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: United States Republican Party challenger Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent United States Democrat Party Jimmy Carter by a wide margin. * 1993 - Jean Chrétien takes office as Prime Minister of Canada. * 1993 - Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works copyright treaty. * 1993 - A series of fires destroy 1000 homes in southern California, causing between 500 million and 1 billion US dollar 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. * 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. == Births == *1470 - King Edward V of England, one of the two Princes in the Tower (d. 1483?) *1631 - Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, eldest daughter of Charles I of England and mother of William III of England *1744 - Johann Bernoulli, III, Switzerland mathematician *1765 - Pierre Girard, France mathematician (d. 1836) *1874 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russia military commander (d. 1920) *1879 - Will Rogers, United States humorist and entertainer (d. 1935) *1883 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (d. 1953) *1901 - Princess Masako Nashimoto (d. 1989) *1909 - Skeeter Webb, American 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, Netherlands businessman (d. 2002) *1929 - Doris Roberts, actress *1930 - Dick Groat, MLB shortstop;NL Most Valuable Player in 1960 *1932 - Thomas Klestil, president of Austria (d. 2004) *1932 - Noam Pitlik, actor/director (d. 1999) *1937 - Loretta Swit, United States actress *1944 - Scherrie Payne, singer; member of The Supremes *1946 - Robert Mapplethorpe, United States photographer (d. 1989) *1946 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States of the United States *1951 - Traian Băsescu, president of Romania *1955 - Matti Vanhanen, prime minister of Finland *1961 - Kathy Griffin, comedienne, actress *1961 - Ralph Macchio, actor *1969 - Matthew McConaughey, United States actor *1969 - P. Diddy, United States rap musician *1972 - Luis Figo, Portugal football (soccer) star *1975 - Eduard Kokcharov, Handball player == Deaths == *1652 - Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician *1698 - Rasmus Bartholin, Denmark mathematician *1847 - Felix Mendelssohn, Germany composer *1870 - Comte de Lautreamont, poet, writer *1898 - Jerome Hopkins, composer *1918 - Wilfred Owen, English poet *1924 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845) *1928 - Arnold Rothstein, gambler *1930 - Buddy Bolden, American jazz musician (b. 1877) *1955 - Cy Young, baseball player *1956 - Art Tatum, American jazz musician *1968 - Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892) *1980 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer *1982 - Dominique Dunne, actress (b. 1959) *1986 - Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician *1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel *2000 - Ian Sneddon, British mathematician *2003 - Richard Wollheim, British philosopher == 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 == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/4 BBC: On This Day] ---- November 3 - November 5 - October 4 - December 4 - more historical anniversaries la:4 Novembris simple:November 4
--User:Maveric149 00:43, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC) Template:November 4 selected anniversaries - Template talk:November 4 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:November_4_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Removed: *1866 - Italy annexes Venice. Well it did happen, but I could not confirm that it happened on this date. --User:Maveric149 23:27, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC) ---- It looks to me like the Iranian hostage crisis is listed as starting on each of the first four days of November. I was about 13 months old, so I don't know offhand which is right. The 'pedia article on the incident itself says the 4th. --User:Calieber 17:37, Nov 4, 2003 (UTC) :Eh? November 1 states that Khomeini instigated the thing by calling for protests on the 4th. November 4 states that militants took over the embassy on that day. Iran hostage crisis agrees with those two and November 2 and November 3 don't mention or link to the hostage crisis event. Are there sources outside of Wikipedia that disagree with this (I have seen some references to a November 3 start date for the hostage crisis, but the Nov 4 date is quoted more often - probably because it was already Nov 4 in Iran but still Nov 3 in much of the US). --User:Maveric149 ::Well, it's settled then. I don't know how to read. --User:Calieber 21:19, Nov 4, 2003 (UTC)
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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 (city) (after three days the city was nearly destroyed). * 1612 - Moscow China Town taken by Russian troops under command of Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski * 1677 - The future Mary II of England marries William III of England. They would later be known as William and Mary. * 1852 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour became the prime minister of Piedmont (Italy)-Kingdom of Sardinia, which soon expanded to become Italy. * 1861 - The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington, Washington as the Territorial University * 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville - Confederate States of America troops bombard a United States supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material. * 1869 - The first issue of the scientific journal ''Nature (journal)'' is published. * 1884 - U.S. presidential election, 1884: United States Democratic Party Grover Cleveland defeats United States Republican Party James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms. * 1889 - Menelik II of Ethiopia 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 London Underground railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell tube station. *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 * 1922 - In Egypt, United Kingdom 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 Delano Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Acts, 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: United States Republican Party Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats United States Democrat Party Adlai Stevenson. * 1956 - Soviet Union troops invade Hungary to crush the Hungarian Revolution, 1956 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 dies a few hours later from stress and overheating. * 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 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: United States Republican Party challenger Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent United States Democrat Party Jimmy Carter by a wide margin. * 1993 - Jean Chrétien takes office as Prime Minister of Canada. * 1993 - Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works copyright treaty. * 1993 - A series of fires destroy 1000 homes in southern California, causing between 500 million and 1 billion US dollar 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. * 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. == Births == *1470 - King Edward V of England, one of the two Princes in the Tower (d. 1483?) *1631 - Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, eldest daughter of Charles I of England and mother of William III of England *1744 - Johann Bernoulli, III, Switzerland mathematician *1765 - Pierre Girard, France mathematician (d. 1836) *1874 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russia military commander (d. 1920) *1879 - Will Rogers, United States humorist and entertainer (d. 1935) *1883 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general and politician (d. 1953) *1901 - Princess Masako Nashimoto (d. 1989) *1909 - Skeeter Webb, American 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, Netherlands businessman (d. 2002) *1929 - Doris Roberts, actress *1930 - Dick Groat, MLB shortstop;NL Most Valuable Player in 1960 *1932 - Thomas Klestil, president of Austria (d. 2004) *1932 - Noam Pitlik, actor/director (d. 1999) *1937 - Loretta Swit, United States actress *1944 - Scherrie Payne, singer; member of The Supremes *1946 - Robert Mapplethorpe, United States photographer (d. 1989) *1946 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States of the United States *1951 - Traian Băsescu, president of Romania *1955 - Matti Vanhanen, prime minister of Finland *1961 - Kathy Griffin, comedienne, actress *1961 - Ralph Macchio, actor *1969 - Matthew McConaughey, United States actor *1969 - P. Diddy, United States rap musician *1972 - Luis Figo, Portugal football (soccer) star *1975 - Eduard Kokcharov, Handball player == Deaths == *1652 - Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician *1698 - Rasmus Bartholin, Denmark mathematician *1847 - Felix Mendelssohn, Germany composer *1870 - Comte de Lautreamont, poet, writer *1898 - Jerome Hopkins, composer *1918 - Wilfred Owen, English poet *1924 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845) *1928 - Arnold Rothstein, gambler *1930 - Buddy Bolden, American jazz musician (b. 1877) *1955 - Cy Young, baseball player *1956 - Art Tatum, American jazz musician *1968 - Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892) *1980 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer *1982 - Dominique Dunne, actress (b. 1959) *1986 - Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician *1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel *2000 - Ian Sneddon, British mathematician *2003 - Richard Wollheim, British philosopher == 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 == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/4 BBC: On This Day] ---- November 3 - November 5 - October 4 - December 4 - more historical anniversaries la:4 Novembris simple:November 4
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--User:Maveric149 00:43, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC) Template:November 4 selected anniversaries - Template talk:November 4 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:November_4_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Removed: *1866 - Italy annexes Venice. Well it did happen, but I could not confirm that it happened on this date. --User:Maveric149 23:27, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC) ---- It looks to me like the Iranian hostage crisis is listed as starting on each of the first four days of November. I was about 13 months old, so I don't know offhand which is right. The 'pedia article on the incident itself says the 4th. --User:Calieber 17:37, Nov 4, 2003 (UTC) :Eh? November 1 states that Khomeini instigated the thing by calling for protests on the 4th. November 4 states that militants took over the embassy on that day. Iran hostage crisis agrees with those two and November 2 and November 3 don't mention or link to the hostage crisis event. Are there sources outside of Wikipedia that disagree with this (I have seen some references to a November 3 start date for the hostage crisis, but the Nov 4 date is quoted more often - probably because it was already Nov 4 in Iran but still Nov 3 in much of the US). --User:Maveric149 ::Well, it's settled then. I don't know how to read. --User:Calieber 21:19, Nov 4, 2003 (UTC)
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