November 4

November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining.

Events:

• 1576 - Spain captures Antwerp, Belgium
• 1869 - First issue of Nature published
• 1866 - Italy annexes Venice
• 1922 - Entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb is discovered
• 1956 - Soviet troops invade to crush the Hungarian revolution[?]
• 1979 - Iranian radicals invade the United States embassy in Tehran
• 1993 - Jean Chrétien takes office as Prime Minister of Canada
• 1995 - Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated.

Births:

• 1602 - Otto von Guericke, inventor of a vacuum pump
• 1744 - Johann Bernoulli, III[?], Swiss mathematician
• 1765 - Pierre Girard[?], French mathematician
• 1874 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander
• 1879 - Will Rogers, American humorist (+ 1935)
• 1914 - Martin Balsam[?], actor (+ 1996)
• 1916 - Walter Cronkite, news broadcaster
• 1918 - Art Carney, actor
• 1929 - Doris Roberts[?], actress
• 1923 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman
• 1937 - Loretta Swit, American actress
• 1946 - Robert Mapplethorpe[?], American photographer
• 1946 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
• 1955 - Matti Vanhanen, prime minister of Finland
• 1961 - Ralph Macchio[?], actor
• 1969 - Puff Daddy[?], American rap musician
• 1969 - Matthew McConaughey[?], American actor

Deaths:

• 1652 - Jean de La Faille[?], French mathematician
• 1698 - Erasmus Bartholin[?], Danish mathematician
• 1847 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer
• 1870 - Comte de Lautreamont, poet, writer
• 1924 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer
• 1928 - Arnold Rothstein[?], gambler
• 1930 - Buddy Bolden, American jazz musician
• 1955 - Cy Young, American baseball player
• 1956 - Art Tatum, American jazz musician
• 1986 - Kurt Hirsch[?], German mathematician
• 1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel
• 2000 - Ian Sneddon[?], British mathematician

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

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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