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Date | Description | Type |
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4th of November 1333 | EVENT | The River Arno flooding causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani. |
4th of November 1429 | EVENT | Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moutier. |
4th of November 1501 | EVENT | Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother : they would later marry. |
4th of November 1576 | EVENT | Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city is nearly destroyed). |
4th of November 1677 | EVENT | The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later jointly reign as William and Mary. |
4th of November 1737 | EVENT | The Teatro di San Carlo is inaugurated. |
4th of November 1783 | EVENT | W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria. |
4th of November 1791 | EVENT | The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash. |
4th of November 1825 | EVENT | The Erie Canal is completed with Governor DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony in New York Harbour. |
4th of November 1839 | EVENT | The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain. |
4th of November 1852 | EVENT | Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy. |
4th of November 1861 | EVENT | The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University. |
4th of November 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville : Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material. |
4th of November 1890 | EVENT | City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell. |
4th of November 1918 | EVENT | The German Revolution begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel. |
4th of November 1918 | EVENT | World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy. |
4th of November 1921 | EVENT | The Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome. |
4th of November 1921 | EVENT | Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo. |
4th of November 1921 | EVENT | The Sturmabteilung or SA is formed by Adolf Hitler |
4th of November 1922 | EVENT | In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. |
4th of November 1924 | EVENT | Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States. |
4th of November 1939 | EVENT | 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. |
4th of November 1942 | EVENT | 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. |
4th of November 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Bitola Liberation Day |
4th of November 1952 | EVENT | The United States government establishes the National Security Agency. |
4th of November 1955 | EVENT | After being totally destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio. |
4th of November 1956 | EVENT | 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. |
4th of November 1962 | EVENT | 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. |
4th of November 1966 | EVENT | Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the River Arno floods; together with the contemporaneous flood of the Po River in northern Italy, this leads to 113 deaths, 30,000 made homeless, and the destruction of numerous Renaissance artworks and books. |
4th of November 1970 | EVENT | Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life. |
4th of November 1970 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Vietnamization : The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam. |
4th of November 1973 | EVENT | 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. |
4th of November 1979 | EVENT | 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). |
4th of November 1993 | EVENT | A China Airlines Boeing 747 overruns Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people. |
4th of November 1994 | EVENT | San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web. |
4th of November 1995 | EVENT | Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli. |
4th of November 2002 | EVENT | Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress. |
4th of November 2008 | EVENT | Proposition 8 passes in California, revoking state recognition of LGBT marriages. |
4th of November 2008 | EVENT | Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States. |
4th of November 1448 | BIRTHDAY | King Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495) |
4th of November 1575 | BIRTHDAY | Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642) |
4th of November 1631 | BIRTHDAY | Mary of Orange, eldest daughter of Charles I of England and mother of William III of England (d. 1660) |
4th of November 1661 | BIRTHDAY | Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742) |
4th of November 1740 | BIRTHDAY | Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn "Rock of Ages" (d. 1778) |
4th of November 1765 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836) |
4th of November 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1874) |
4th of November 1816 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Johnson Field, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1899) |
4th of November 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Henry J. Lutcher, American businessman (d. 1912) |
4th of November 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (d. 1883) |
4th of November 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Carolina Otero, a.k.a La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, singer and courtesan (d. 1965) |
4th of November 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (d. 1920) |
4th of November 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Will Rogers, American humorist (d. 1935) |
4th of November 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general (d. 1953) |
4th of November 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Ferguson, British aviator and inventor (d. 1960) |
4th of November 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist, philanthropist, scientific research patron (d. 1975) |
4th of November 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Henschke, ps. Klabund, German writer and poet (d. 1928) |
4th of November 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines (1957 : 1960) (d. 1971) |
4th of November 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (d. 1985) |
4th of November 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Lucretiu Patrascanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954) |
4th of November 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Bang-ja of Korea (d. 1989) |
4th of November 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist (d. 1974) |
4th of November 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Tadeusz Zylinski, Polish technician and textilist (d. 1967) |
4th of November 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Sterling North, American author (d. 1974) |
4th of November 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Draga Matkovic, German concert pianist |
4th of November 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Jozef Rotblat, Polish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005) |
4th of November 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (d. 1997) |
4th of November 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (d. 1986) |
4th of November 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (d. 1974) |
4th of November 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Evelyn Johnson, American aviator |
4th of November 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (d. 1978) |
4th of November 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Gig Young, American actor (d. 1978) |
4th of November 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Handler, American businesswoman and inventor of the Barbie doll (d. 2002) |
4th of November 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Cronkite, American news broadcaster (d. 2009) |
4th of November 1916 | BIRTHDAY | John Basilone, American marine and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945) |
4th of November 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003) |
4th of November 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Cameron Mitchell, American actor (d. 1994) |
4th of November 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Balsam, American actor (d. 1996) |
4th of November 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Benno Besson, Swiss actor (d. 2006) |
4th of November 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player and politician |
4th of November 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Sledge, American marine and author (d. 2001) |
4th of November 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (d. 2002) |
4th of November 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Hannah Weiner American experimental poet |
4th of November 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (d. 1987) |
4th of November 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Dickie Valentine, British singer (d. 1971) |
4th of November 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Groat, American baseball player |
4th of November 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Doris Roberts, American actress |
4th of November 1930 | BIRTHDAY | John Hahn-Petersen, Danish actor (d. 2006) |
4th of November 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Makem Irish folk singer-songwriter (d. 2007) |
4th of November 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Klestil, former President of Austria (d. 2004) |
4th of November 1933 | BIRTHDAY | C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian politician |
4th of November 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Tito Francona, American baseball player |
4th of November 1936 | BIRTHDAY | C. K. Williams, American poet |
4th of November 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Loretta Swit, American actress |
4th of November 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Wilson, Canadian politician |
4th of November 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Shakuntala Devi, Indian calculating prodigy |
4th of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Delbert McClinton, American musician |
4th of November 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Marlene Jobert, French actress |
4th of November 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Clark Graebner, American tennis player |
4th of November 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Wollek, French race car driver (d. 2001) |
4th of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Scherrie Payne, American singer (The Supremes) |
4th of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Gary, American voice actress (d. 1995) |
4th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Elmes, American cinematographer |
4th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Bush, former First Lady of the United States |
4th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989) |
4th of November 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Markie Post, American actress |
4th of November 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Frazier, American author |
4th of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Traian Basescu, President of Romania |
4th of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Cosey Fanni Tutti, English performance artist (Throbbing Gristle, Chris and Cosey) |
4th of November 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Gutierrez, American politician and 35th United States Secretary of Commerce |
4th of November 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Marvel Williamson, American educator |
4th of November 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian racing driver |
4th of November 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Richie Green, Canadian actor |
4th of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Difford, English musician and songwriter (Squeeze) |
4th of November 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Matti Vanhanen, Finnish politician, former Prime Minister |
4th of November 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jordan Rudess, American musician (Dream Theater) |
4th of November 1956 | BIRTHDAY | James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist (The Pretenders) (d. 1982) |
4th of November 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Abbott, Australian politician |
4th of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Sweeney, American television executive |
4th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Awodey, American artist and writer |
4th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kathy Griffin, American comedian |
4th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Frl. Menke, German pop singer of the Neue Deutsche Welle |
4th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Daron Hagen, American composer |
4th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Knight, American composer |
4th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Macchio, American actor |
4th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer |
4th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Les Sampou, American musician |
4th of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Probst, American television host |
4th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Dery, Canadian singer and guitarist (Zebulon) |
4th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Rosario Flores, Spanish singer and actress |
4th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Therrien, Canadian ice hockey coach |
4th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Lena Zavaroni, Scottish artist and singer (d. 1999) |
4th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Krakowian, American actor |
4th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Pata, Japanese musician |
4th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Malandra Burrows, English actress and singer |
4th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Scott Soto, American musician (Yngwie Malmsteen, Journey) |
4th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Static, American musician (Static-X) |
4th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Karros, American baseball player |
4th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Miles Long, American pornographic actor and director |
4th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Baerga, Puerto Rican baseball player |
4th of November 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Sean "Diddy" Combs, American record producer and rapper |
4th of November 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew McConaughey, American actor |
4th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tim DeBoom, American triathlete |
4th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Bethenny Frankel, American chef and television personality |
4th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Malena Ernman, Swedish opera singer |
4th of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Figo, Portuguese footballer |
4th of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Tabassum Hashmi, Indian actress |
4th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Cedric Bixler-Zavala, American musician (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta) |
4th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Redknapp, English singer, television presenter |
4th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Fichaud, Canadian ice hockey player |
4th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Eduard Kokcharov, Russian handball player |
4th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mikki Moore, American basketball player |
4th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Heather Tom, American actress |
4th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Orlando Pace, American football player |
4th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Curtis Stone, Australian chef and television personality |
4th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Lorenzen Wright, American basketball player (d. 2010) |
4th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Bahr, German politician |
4th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Junqueira, Brazilian racing driver |
4th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Melchiot, Dutch footballer |
4th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tonicha Jeronimo, British actress |
4th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Bigbie, American baseball player |
4th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | So Ji-sub, South Korean swimmer, model and actor |
4th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | John Grabow, American baseball player |
4th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Cali, American baseball player |
4th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Salomon, American actor |
4th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Trishelle Cannatella, American reality TV cast member and model |
4th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Camp, American VJ |
4th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Audrey Hollander, American pornographic actress |
4th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Owens, American football player |
4th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Marcy Rylan, American actress |
4th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sabrina Colie, Jamaican actress |
4th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby union footballer |
4th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Martin, English motorcycle racer |
4th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Vince Wilfork, American football player |
4th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Devin Hester, American football player |
4th of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Alexz Johnson, Canadian singer and actress |
4th of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Zaugg, South African racing driver |
4th of November 1987 | BIRTHDAY | T.O.P, Korean rapper (Big Bang) |
4th of November 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Bea Binene, Filipina actress |
4th of November 1411 | DEATH | Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxonia (Born 1384) |
4th of November 1652 | DEATH | Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (Born 1597) |
4th of November 1658 | DEATH | Antoine Le Maistre, French Jansenist (Born 1608) |
4th of November 1669 | DEATH | Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (Born 1603) |
4th of November 1698 | DEATH | Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (Born 1625) |
4th of November 1702 | DEATH | John Benbow, English admiral (Born 1653) |
4th of November 1704 | DEATH | Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (Born 1654) |
4th of November 1781 | DEATH | Johann Nikolaus Gotz, German poet (Born 1721) |
4th of November 1801 | DEATH | William Shippen, American physician and delegate to the Continental Congress (Born 1712) |
4th of November 1847 | DEATH | Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (Born 1809) |
4th of November 1856 | DEATH | Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (Born 1797) |
4th of November 1893 | DEATH | Pierre Tirard, French politician (Born 1827) |
4th of November 1906 | DEATH | John H. Ketcham, American politician (Born 1832) |
4th of November 1918 | DEATH | Wilfred Owen, English poet (Born 1893) |
4th of November 1924 | DEATH | Gabriel Faure, French composer (Born 1845) |
4th of November 1924 | DEATH | Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (Born 1843) |
4th of November 1928 | DEATH | Arnold Rothstein, American gambler (Born 1882) |
4th of November 1930 | DEATH | Buddy Bolden, American musician (Born 1877) |
4th of November 1931 | DEATH | Luigi Galleani, Italian anarchist (Born 1861) |
4th of November 1950 | DEATH | Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (Born 1887) |
4th of November 1955 | DEATH | Cy Young, American baseball player (Born 1867) |
4th of November 1957 | DEATH | Shoghi Effendi, Israeli religious figure (Born 1897) |
4th of November 1968 | DEATH | Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (Born 1892) |
4th of November 1969 | DEATH | Carlos Marighella, Brazilian politician (Born 1911) |
4th of November 1974 | DEATH | Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (Born 1909) |
4th of November 1975 | DEATH | Izzat Husrieh, Syrian journalist and publisher (Born 1914) |
4th of November 1980 | DEATH | Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (Born 1905) |
4th of November 1982 | DEATH | Dominique Dunne, American actress (Born 1959) |
4th of November 1986 | DEATH | Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (Born 1906) |
4th of November 1992 | DEATH | George Klein, Canadian inventor (Born 1904) |
4th of November 1994 | DEATH | Sam Francis, American painter (Born 1923) |
4th of November 1994 | DEATH | Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitar player MC5 (Born 1949) |
4th of November 1995 | DEATH | Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (Born 1925) |
4th of November 1995 | DEATH | Eddie Egan, American actor and police officer (Born 1930) |
4th of November 1995 | DEATH | Paul Eddington, British actor (Born 1927) |
4th of November 1995 | DEATH | Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1922) |
4th of November 1995 | DEATH | Morrie Schwartz, Sociology professor at Brandeis University and an author (Born 1916) |
4th of November 1997 | DEATH | Richard Hooker, American writer (Born 1924) |
4th of November 1999 | DEATH | Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (Born 1958) |
4th of November 2003 | DEATH | Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (Born 1923) |
4th of November 2003 | DEATH | Ken Gampu, South African actor (Born 1929) |
4th of November 2003 | DEATH | Charles Causley, Cornish writer and poet (Born 1917) |
4th of November 2005 | DEATH | Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet and journalist (Born 1980) |
4th of November 2005 | DEATH | Sheree North, American actress and singer (Born 1932) |
4th of November 2006 | DEATH | Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American memoirist (Born 1908) |
4th of November 2006 | DEATH | Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician and Nisga'a statesman (Born 1915) |
4th of November 2007 | DEATH | Peter Viertel, German-born American author and screenwriter (Born 1920) |
4th of November 2008 | DEATH | Michael Crichton, American author (Born 1942) |
4th of November 2008 | DEATH | Juan Camilo Mourino, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (Born 1971) |
4th of November 2009 | DEATH | Hubertus Brandenburg, Swedish Roman Catholic bishop (Born 1923) |
4th of November 2010 | DEATH | Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager (Born 1934) |
4th of November 2010 | DEATH | Eugenie Blanchard, French supercentenarian (Born 1896) |
4th of November 2010 | DEATH | Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (Born 1960) |