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What happened in history on this day: November 4?
On November 4 in ...
- 711 - Death of Roman Emperor Justinian II.
- 1576 - Spanish defeat Walloons and take Antwerp Belgium.
- 1650 - Birth of William III of Orange, king of England (1689-1702).
- 1845 - First nationally-observed uniform election day in US.
- 1848 - France ratifies a new constitution. The Second Republic of France is set up, ending the state of temporary government.
- 1860 - Abraham Lincoln (Republican-Illinois-Representative) is elected 16th president of the USA.
- 1861 - University of Washington is founded in Seattle, Washington, USA.
- 1862 - Birth of Eden Phillpotts in England; novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes).
- 1862 - Gatling gun is patented (to Richard J Gatling).
- 1866 - Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia.
- 1873 - Birth of GE Moore; English philosopher (Ethics).
- 1873 - Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents the gold crown.
- 1875 - Pacific collides with Orpheus off Cape Flattery, Washington, USA; 236 dies.
- 1876 - Birth of James Fraser; designed US buffalo nickel coin.
- 1879 - Birth of Will Rogers in Oologah Indian Territory (Oklahoma); humorist.
- 1879 - James and John Ritty patent first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in their Dayton, Ohio saloon.
- 1884 - Birth of Harry Ferguson in Growell, Ireland; first to build and fly his own aircraft in Ireland, designed new plow and the Ferguson Black tractor.
- 1884 - Grover Cleveland (Democrat) beats James G Blaine (Republican) for President of the US.
- 1886 - Birth of Ian Wolfe in Canton, Illinois, USA; actor (Diary of a Madman, Wizards and Warriors).
- 1889 - Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball's National League.
- 1890 - Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate.
- 1900 - Birth of Luigi Lucioni in Italy; landscape painter (opera stars).
- 1904 - First stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium).
- 1906 - Birth of Bob Considine; sports columnist (Bob Feller Story).
- 1906 - In Diep River, South Africa, a building is struck by a falling meteorite.
- 1909 - Birth of Ciro Alegria in Peru; novelist (Golden Serpent).
- 1912 - Birth of Pauline Trigere; fashion designer (Bell Bottoms).
- 1913 - Birth of Gig Young in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA; actor (They Shoot Horses Don't They, Gibbsville), host (Kings Row, Casablanca, Warner Brothers Presents).
- 1916 - Birth of Walter Cronkite in Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA; news anchor (CBS Evening News 1962-81).
- 1918 - Birth of Art Carney in Mount Vernon, New York, USA; actor (Ed Norton - The Honeymooners).
- 1918 - Birth of Cameron Mitchell in Dallastown, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Buck Cannon - High Chaparral, Black Beauty, Dream West, How the West Was Won).
- 1919 - Birth of Martin Balsam in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Murray - Archie Bunker's Place, Catch 22, Dr. Kildare).
- 1922 - In Egypt's Valley of the Kings, Howard Carter and workers uncover a stone stairway leading to an ancient tomb, with seals intact.
- 1924 - California legalizes professional boxing (illegal since 1914).
- 1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross elected governor of Wyoming.
- 1928 - Arnold Rothstein is shot and killed in the Park Central Hotel in New York City, owing US$333,000 on a poker game.
- 1929 - Birth of Jimmy Piersall; baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians).
- 1930 - Birth of Doris Roberts in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; actress (Everybody Loves Raymond, Remington Steele, Angie, Maggie, Emmy 1983).
- 1930 - Birth of Kate Reid in London, England; actress (Queen Victoria - Disraeli (1963), The Whiteoaks of Jalna, Gavilan, Morningstar, Eveningstar).
- 1931 - Birth of Darla Hood in Leedey, Oklahoma, USA; singer/actress (Little Rascals).
- 1931 - Inauguration of the Thiruvananthapuram Central Railway station by the Maharaja of Travancore Sree Chithira Thirunal.
- 1932 - Birth of Noam Pitlik in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor/director (I'm Dickens He's Fenster, Ben Casey, Bob Newhart, Sanford and Son), producer (Barney Miller, 9 to 5).
- 1934 - Pittsburgh Pirates end Detroit Lions' shutout streak at 7 games but loses 40-7.
- 1937 - Birth of Loretta Swit in Passaic, New Jersey, USA; actress (Margaret "Hotlips" Houlihan - M*A*S*H).
- 1938 - Birth of Harry Elston; rhythm-and-blues singer (Friends of Distinction).
- 1939 - 1940 Olympics awarded to Helsinki, Finland.
- 1939 - First air-conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- 1939 - In the United States, Congress amends the 1937 Neutrality Act, allowing belligerent nations to buy American arms for cash if they provide the transport.
- 1946 - United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) forms.
- 1947 - Birth of Aleksandr Tkachev in the USSR; parallel bars gymnast (Olympic-gold-1980).
- 1947 - Birth of Alexei Ulanov in the USSR; pairs figure skater (Olympic-gold-1972, 1976).
- 1949 - NBC-TV debuts One Man's Family TV show.
- 1949 - Birth of Berlinda Tolbert in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; actor (Jenny - The Jeffersons).
- 1950 - Birth of Markie Post [Marjorie] in Palo Alto, California, USA; actress (Christine - Night Court, Odd Man Out).
- 1951 - New York Giants and New York Yankees score back-to-back touchdowns on kickoff returns.
- 1952 - A 9.0-magnitude earthquake strikes Kamchatka off the east coast of Russia, causing 30-foot waves in Hawaii.
- 1952 - Dwight Eisenhower (Republican) elected 34th US President beating Adlai Stevenson (Democrat).
- 1954 - Birth of Chris Difford; guitarist/vocalist (Squeeze - "Tempted").
- 1955 - Birth of Peter Boynton in Maine, USA; actor (Tonio - As the World Turns).
- 1956 - Soviet tanks and troops enter Budapest, Hungary, to put down a revolution against Soviet influence. An estimated 2,500 Hungarians are killed and 200,000 more flee as refugees.
- 1956 - Israel captures Straits of Tiran from Egypt.
- 1956 - Israeli troops reach Suez Canal.
- 1959 - Ernie Banks, Chicago Cubs' shortstop, wins National League Most Valuable Player.
- 1960 - Birth of Kathy Griffin; actress/comedian (Suddenly Susan, My Life on the D List).
- 1960 - Birth of Kim Forester; country singer (The Forester Sisters).
- 1961 - Birth of Jeff Probst; TV host (Survivor).
- 1961 - Birth of Ralph Macchio; actor (Ugly Betty, Three Wishes of Billy Grier).
- 1962 - Birth of Ralph Macchio in Huntington, New York, USA; actor (Karate Kid, Eight is Enough).
- 1963 - The Beatles' John Lennon utters his infamous "Rattle your jewelry" line at the Royal Command Variety Performance ("The people in the cheaper seats, clap your hands... and if the rest of you would just rattle your jewelry.").
- 1965 - Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH).
- 1966 - Birth of Kool Rock [Damon Wimbley]; rapper (Fat Boys - "Jail House Rock").
- 1966 - Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works.
- 1971 - Birth of Shawn Rivera; rhythm-and-blues singer (Az Yet).
- 1972 - Los Angeles Kings score three goals within 45 seconds against New York Islanders.
- 1973 - New Orleans Saints' first shutout victory, 13-0 versus Buffalo Bills.
- 1975 - Birth of Heather Tom; actress (Victoria - The Young and the Restless, All My Children).
- 1978 - In the USA, Florida voters reject by 73 percent to 27 a proposal to legalize casinos along the state's Gold Coast.
- 1978 - Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran University.
- 1979 - 3000 militant Iranian students, outraged that the U.S. government had allowed the ousted Shah of Iran to travel to New York City for medical treatment, seize the U.S. embassy in Teheran, taking 90 hostages (53 Americans). They demand that the United States send the former Shah of Iran back to stand trial.
- 1979 - Birth of Daisy Eagan in Brooklyn, New York; actress (Secret Garden).
- 1980 - U.S. presidential election: Republican challenger and former California Governor Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory.
- 1980 - Japan's all-time home run hitter, Sadaharu Oh, retires from professional baseball. The Tokyo Yomiuri Giants' first baseman hit a record 868 home runs in his 22-year playing career.
- 1982 - Compaq Computer introduces the Compaq Portable PC, compatible with the IBM PC, though not violating the IBM BIOS copyright.
- 1983 - Washington Capitals' first NHL overtime victory beating Vancouver Canucks 5-4.
- 1983 - A bomb strike on the Israeli military base at Tyre kills 60.
- 1984 - Death of Merie Earle at age 95 of uremic poisoning; actress (Maude - The Waltons, Green Acres, The Bob Newhart Show).
- 1984 - Nicaragua holds first free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63 percent.
- 1984 - PC's Limited computer company founded (later renamed Dell Computer).
- 1986 - Democrats regain control of the United States Senate for the first time in six years.
- 1986 - In California, Chief Justice Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by voters from the Supreme Court of California for opposing capital punishment.
- 1987 - NBA announces four new franchises; Charlotte and Miami for 1988 and Minneapolis and Orlando for 1989.
- 1987 - Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in New York City), dies at age 87.
- 1987 - Death of Bobby Nunn at age 61 of a heart attack; musician (The Coasters - "Yakety Yak" (1958)).
- 1989 - Orlando Magic's first NBA game, loses to Nets, 111-106.
- 1989 - Typhoon Gay devastates the Thai province of Chumphon.
- 1990 - Iraq says it is preparing for a "dangerous war".
- 1990 - Secretary of State James Baker visits US troops in Saudi Arabia.
- 1991 - Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid, Spain.
- 1991 - Death of Roger Broggie in Los Angeles, USA at age 91; mechanical engineer at Walt Disney Company (Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad, Mark Twain Riverboat, Matterhorn Bobsleds, Monorail, more), named Disney Legend 1990.
- 1993 - Jean Chrétien becomes the 20th Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1994 - In San Francisco, California, the first conference devoted entirely to the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web opens. Featured speakers include Marc Andreessen of Netscape, Mark Graham of Pandora Systems, and Ken McCarthy of E-Media.
- 1995 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
- 1995 - Death of Paul Eddington at age 68 of cancer; English actor (Jim Hacker - Yes Minister, Yes, Prime Minister).
- 1997 - NBC airs the 100th episode of TV show Frasier.
- 2000 - A Petrobras oil tanker spills 50,000 litres of crude oil near a beach resort area.
- 2001 - Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba, destroying crops and thousands of homes.
- 2001 - The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established, replacing the controversial Royal Ulster Constabulary.
- 2001 - The Arizona Diamondbacks beat the three-time defending World Series Champions New York Yankees in seven games to win their first ever baseball World Series Championship.
- 2005 - The U.S. and Uruguay governments sign a Bilateral Investment Treaty.
- 2005 - Death of Sheree North at age 73 of complications from cancer surgery; actress (Bay City Blues, I'm a Big Girl Now).
- 2007 - Álvaro Colom wins the second round of the presidential elections in Guatemala.
- 2007 - Reformation Sunday is observed by Lutherans and other Protestants around the world, to commemorate the 490th anniversary (October 31) of the Ninety-Five Theses, which began the Protestant Reformation.
- 2008 - A ferry capsizes during a freak storm in the central Philippines, killing 39 people.
- 2008 - In general elections in the USA, Democratic Party nominee Senator Barack Obama is elected first half-black president, with running mate Joe Biden as Vice President. The electoral college presidential vote is 364 to 174, with popular vote 52 to 46 percent. The Democratic party increases their number in Congress by about 20 seats, and in the Senate control 60 of 100 seats. This was the longest election in US history, and most expensive.
- 2008 - California votes to approve a constitutional ban on gay marriage.
- 2008 - Arkansas votes 63 percent in favor of a state lottery.
- 2008 - Plane crash in Mexico kills fifteen, including Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño.
- 2009 - The New York Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 to win Major League Baseball's World Series, the Yankees' 27th title with a 4-2 series victory over the defending champions.
- 2010 - Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.
- 2018 - New Caledonia holds an independence referendum, with 56.4% voting against independence versus 43.6% in favour.
- 2019 - The United States formally begins process to pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
- 2019 - Nine Americans are killed when Mexican gang members open fire on their vehicles while driving to a wedding about 110 kilometres (70 mi) south of the Mexico-United States border.
- 2020 - The United States formally exits the Paris Agreement on climate change.
- 2021 - Death of Lionel Blair at age 92; British entertainer (Give Us a Clue TV show).
- 2022 - Death of Aaron Carter at age 34; singer (Aaron's Party (Come Get It) album (2000), "I Want Candy" song).
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