On this day in History - Nov. 4

• 1411 - Khalil Sultan dies (b. 1384). Ruler of Transoxonia
• 1448 - King Alphonso II of Naples was born (d. 1495)
• 1470 - King Edward V of England was born. One of the two princes in the Tower
• 1575 - Guido Reni was born (d. 1642). Italian painter.
• 1576 - Eighty Years' War: In Belgium, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
• 1584 - Saint Charles Borromeo dies (b. 1538). Italian cardinal.
• 1612 - Moscow Kitai-gorod taken by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky
• 1631 - Mary of Orange was born (d. 1660). Eldest daughter of Charles I of England and mother of William III of England
• 1652 - Jean-Charles de la Faille dies (b. 1597). Belgian mathematician.
• 1661 - Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine was born (d. 1742)
• 1669 - Johannes Cocceius dies (b. 1603). Dutch theologian.
• 1677 - The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later be known as William and Mary.
• 1698 - Rasmus Bartholin dies (b. 1625). Danish physician and mathematician.
• 1702 - John Benbow dies (b. 1653). English admiral.
• 1704 - Andreas Acoluthus dies (b. 1654). German orientalist.
• 1740 - Augustus Montague Toplady was born. Author of hymn, "Rock of Ages"
• 1744 - Johann Bernoulli, III was born (d. 1807). Swiss mathematicien
• 1765 - Pierre Girard was born (d. 1836). French mathematician
• 1825 - The Erie Canal was completed with DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony.
• 1828 - António Coelho Lousada was born. Portuguese writer.
• 1836 - Henry J. Lutcher was born (d. 1912). Business leader.
• 1842 - Abraham Lincoln, future US President, married Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.
• 1845 - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke was born. Indian revolutionary
• 1847 - Felix Mendelssohn dies (b. 1809). German composer.
• 1852 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour became the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expanded to become Italy.
• 1857 - Fundação de São Carlos (S. Paulo - Brasil)
• 1859 - Clóvis Beviláqua was born in Viçosa (CE) (d. 1944). Brazilian jurist, journalist and historian. Author of the "Código Civil Brasileiro" (Brazilian Civil Code)
• 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.
• 1874 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak was born (d. 1920). Russian military commander.
• 1877 - A construção da Ponte de Dona Maria Pia é concluída.
• 1879 - Will Rogers was born (d. 1935). American humorist and entertainer.
• 1883 - Nikolaos Plastiras was born (d. 1953). Greek general and politician.
• 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.
• 1884 - Harry Ferguson was born (d. 1960). Aviator, plane and farm equipment designer (Ferguson Company).
• 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.
• 1890 - Klabund (Alfred Henschke) was born (d. 1928). German writer escritor alemão
• 1897 - Lorenzo Fernandez was born (d. 1948). Brazilian musician, composer and conductor
• 1899 - Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams is published.
• 1899 - Nicolas Frantz was born (d. 1985). Luxembourgish cyclist.
• 1901 - Princess Bang-ja of Korea was born (d. 1989)
• 1904 - Theodore Roosevelt foi reeleito presidente dos Estados Unidos da América. Eleito vice-presidente em 1900, tinha-se tornado presidente logo em 1901 devido ao assassinato do presidente McKinley.
• 1908 - Józef Rotblat was born (d. 2005). Polish physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1909 - Skeeter Webb was born (d. 1986). Baseball player.
• 1910 - Torres Pastorinho was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian journalist, historian and writer
• 1911 - O túmulo do faraó Tutankhamon foi descoberto, em Luxor no Egipto, pelo arqueólogo inglês Howard Carter.
• 1912 - Vadim Salmanov was born (d. 1978). Russian composer.
• 1913 - Gig Young was born (d. 1978). American actor.
• 1914 - Martin Balsam was born (d. 1996). American actor.
• 1916 - Walter Cronkite was born. American news broadcaster
• 1918 - Art Carney was born (d. 2003). American actor.
• 1918 - Cameron Mitchell was born (d. 1994). American actor.
• 1918 - World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
• 1918 - The German Revolution begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
• 1918 - Wilfred Owen dies (b. 1893). English poet.
• 1919 - Martin Balsam was born (d. 1996). American actor.
• 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.
• 1922 - Benno Besson was born (d. 2006). Swiss actor.
• 1923 - Freddy Heineken was born (d. 2002). Dutch businessman.
• 1924 - Monsueto was born (d. 1973). Brazilian musician (Samba)
• 1924 - Howie Meeker was born. National Hockey League player, politician
• 1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
• 1924 - Gabriel Fauré dies (b. 1845). French composer
• 1928 - Arnold Rothstein (b. 1882), New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot dead over a poker game.
• 1929 - Doris Roberts was born. American actress
• 1930 - Dick Groat was born. Baseball player
• 1930 - Buddy Bolden dies (b. 1877). American musician.
• 1932 - Thomas Klestil was born (d. 2004). President of Austria.
• 1933 - Tito Francona was born (d. 2004). Baseball player.
• 1937 - Michael Wilson was born. Canadian politician
• 1937 - Loretta Swit was born. American actress
• 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.
• 1941 - Manuel Rui was born in Huambo. Angolan poet.
• 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.
• 1943 - Marlène Jobert was born. French actress
• 1944 - Linda Gary was born (d. 1995). American voice-actress.
• 1944 - Scherrie Payne was born. American singer (The Supremes)
• 1946 - Robert Mapplethorpe was born (d. 1989). American photographer.
• 1946 - Laura Bush was born. First Lady of the United States
• 1948 - T. S. Eliot is announced that won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry"
• 1946 - Unesco is founded.
• 1948 - T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1948 - Truman is reelected President of United States
• 1950 - Grover Cleveland Alexander dies (b. 1887). Baseball player.
• 1951 - Traian Băsescu was born. President of Romania
• 1952 - Dwight Eisenhower is elected President of United States.
• 1952 - U.S. presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
• 1953 - Carlos Gutierrez was born. American politician.
• 1953 - Jacques Villeneuve (elder) was born. Motorsport driver
• 1955 - The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II.
• 1955 - Matti Vanhanen was born. Prime Minister of Finland
• 1955 - Cy Young dies (b. 1867). Baseball player
• 1956 - Jordan Rudess was born. American musician (Dream Theater)
• 1956 - James Honeyman-Scott was born (d. 1982). English guitarist (The Pretenders).
• 1956 - Art Tatum dies (b. 1909). American musician
• 1956 - Soviet troops invade Hungary to crush the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
• 1957 - Shoghi Effendi dies (b. 1897). Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith
• 1960 - Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable -- the last film for both.
• 1960 - Marc Awodey was born. American artist and writer.
• 1961 - Edward Knight was born. American composer
• 1961 - Daron Hagen was born. American composer
• 1961 - Les Sampou was born. American musician
• 1961 - Nigel Worthington was born. Northern Irish footballer
• 1961 - Ralph Macchio was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York. American actor.
• 1961 - Kathy Griffin was born. American comedienne and actress
• 1961 - Ralph Macchio was born. American actor.
• 1962 - Jeff Probst, American television host
• 1963 - Marc Déry, Québécois singer and guitarist (Zébulon)
• 1963 - Michel Therrien, National Hockey League head coach
• 1965 - Jeff Scott Soto, American musician (Yngwie Malmsteen Band, Journey)
• 1965 - Wayne Static was born. American singer/guitarist (Static-X)
• 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.
• 1967 - Eric Karros was born. American baseball player.
• 1968 - Carlos Baerga was born. Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1968 - Michel Kikoine dies (b. 1892). Belarusian painter.
• 1969 - Matthew McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. American actor.
• 1969 - Sean Jean "Diddy" Combs was born. American rapper.
• 1970 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
• 1970 - Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
• 1972 - Luis Figo was born. Portuguese football player.
• 1972 - Tabassum Hashmi was born. Indian actress
• 1974 - M62 bomber jailed for life Judith Ward is convicted of an army coach bombing in which 12 people died. Her conviction was quashed 18 years later.
• 1974 - Portugal: Sede Nacional do Partido Popular sofre ataques, ameaças e assaltos por radicais de extrema-esquerda.
• 1974 - Cedric Bixler-Zavala, American musician (At the Drive-in, The Mars Volta)
• 1975 - Eduard Kokcharov was born.Russian handball player
• 1976 - Mario Melchiot was born. Dutch football player
• 1976 - Bruno Junqueira was born. Brazilian racing driver.
• 1977 - Larry Bigbie was born. American baseball player
• 1978 - Carmen Cali was born. American baseball player
• 1978 - John Grabow was born. American baseball player
• 1979 - Audrey Hollander was born. American pornographic actress
• 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). 1979. Cerca de 500 jovens militantes iranianos invadiram a Embaixada dos Estados Unidos em Teerão, no Irão, e fizeram 90 reféns, incluindo 52 americanos, que mantiverram sequestrados durante 444 dias.
• 1980 - U.S. presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter by a wide margin.
• 1980 - Elsie MacGill dies (b. 1905). Canadian aeronautical engineer.
• 1982 - Dominique Dunne dies (b. 1959). American actress.
• 1982 - Mother jailed in dingo baby trial
• 1985 - Marcell Jansen was born. German football player
• 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.
• 1986 - Alexz Johnson was born. Canadian singer and actress (Final Destination 3 ; Instant Star).
• 1986 - Kurt Hirsch dies (b. 1906). German mathematician.
• 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.
• 1990 - Jean-Luc Bilodeau was born. Canadian actor
• 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. The wind was gusting to gale force at the time. It touched down more than 2/3 down the runway and was unable to stop before the runway ran out and the plane crashed into the sea. 22 people were injured.
• 1994 - San Francisco: First conference that focused exlusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
• 1994 - Fred Sonic Smith dies (b. 1949). American guitar player MC5
• 1995 - Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by an extreme right-wing Israeli.
• 1995 - After attending a peace rally in Tel Aviv's Kings Square, Israeli prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize Yitzhak Rabin (b. 1922) is mortally wounded by an extreme right-wing Israeli assassin. He dies of his wounds later that night in a Tel Aviv Hospital.
• 1995 - Gilles Deleuze dies. French philosopher.
• 1995 - Paul Eddington dies. British actor.
• 1999 - Malcolm Marshall dies (b. 1958). West Indian cricketer
• 2001 - Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba, destroying crops and thousands of homes.
• 2001 - The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established.
• 2001 - Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires é beatificado
• 2002 - Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress
• 2003 - The most powerful solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.
• 2003 - Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy becomes the first person indicted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He was eventually acquitted.
• 2003 - The largest-ever solar flare is recorded
• 2003 - Richard Wollheim dies (b. 1923). British philosopher.
• 2004 - 12 French Soldiers, 3 UN personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the Côte d'Ivoire civil war.
• 2005 - Nadia Anjuman dies (b. 1980). Afghan poet & journalist.
• 2005 - Sheree North dies (b. 1932). American actress and singer.
• R.C. Saints - November 4th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
• St. Charles Borromeo, St. Clarus, St. Birrstan, St. Vitalis, St. Emeric, St. Joannicus, St. Nicander and Hermas St. Modesta, St. Philologus and Patrobas, St. Pierius.
• Italy - celebration of victory in WWI, the date of the Armed Forces
• Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Qudrat (Power) - First day of the 13th month of the Bahá'í calendar
• Panama's Flag Day
• Russia - Day of People's Unity (or National Unity Day), concides with the feast of the Theotokos of Kazan.
• Tonga's National Day, from 2006.