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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)