Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays Events 1576 - Eighty Years' War: In Belgium, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed). 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville - At Johnsonville, Tennessee, troops under the command of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest bombard a Union supply base with artillery and destroy millions of dollars in materiel. 1869 - The first issue of scientific journal Nature is published. 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 non-consecutive terms. 1922 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. 1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming elected as the first woman governor in the United States. 1928 - At Park Central Hotel in Manhattan, Arnold Rothstein, New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot to death over a poker game. 1939 - World War II: US 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. 1942 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein - Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshall Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat. 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. 1948 - T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1952 - U.S. presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson. 1960 - Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable (this was the last film either performed in). 1970 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam. 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). They demanded that the United States send the former shah back to Iran to stand trial. 1980 - U.S. presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter by a wide margin. 1993 - Jean Chrétien takes office as Prime Minister of Canada. 1995 - After attending a peace rally in Tel Aviv's Kings Square, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is mortally wounded by a right-wing Israelis gunman (he later died on the operating table at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv). 2001 - Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba destroying crops and thousands of homes. 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 and entertainer († 1935) 1914 - Martin Balsam, actor († 1996) 1916 - Walter Cronkite, news broadcaster 1918 - Art Carney, actor († 2003) 1929 - Doris Roberts, actress 1923 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman 1937 - Loretta Swit, American actress 1944 - Scherrie Payne, singer; member of The Supremes 1946 - Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer († 1989) 1946 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States 1955 - Matti Vanhanen, prime minister of Finland 1961 - Ralph Macchio, actor 1969 - P. Diddy, American rap musician 1969 - Matthew McConaughey, American actor 1972 - Luis Figo, Portuguese football star 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 November 3 - November 5 - October 4 - December 4 - more historical anniversaries See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.