Notable Historical Events on November 4th
November 4th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
922 |
Richarius becomes bishop of Luik |
1333 |
Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani. |
1501 |
Philip de Blank & Juana "la Loca" depart to Spain |
1519 |
Flood ravages Dutch/Friese coast |
1520 |
Danish/Norwegian king Christian II crowned king of Sweden |
1529 |
English cardinal Thomas Wolsey arrested |
1576 |
Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spanish defeat Walloon and captures Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed). |
1619 |
Frederik V crowned king of Bohemia |
1631 |
Ferdinand of Austria installed as land guardian of South Netherlands |
1645 |
Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Holly |
1646 |
Massachusetts uses death penalty for denying that Holy Bible is God's word |
1675 |
Storm hits Western Europe: flood in Amsterdam |
1737 |
The Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, inaugurated. |
1771 |
Carlo Goldoni's "Le Bourru Bienfaisant" premieres in Paris |
1783 |
W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is premiered in Linz, Austria. |
1819 |
Māori Chiefs Hongi Hika and Rewa sell 13,000 acres (5260 hectares) at Kerikeri to the Church Missionary Society for 48 felling axes, New Zealand |
1839 |
The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain. |
1841 |
First wagon train arrives in California |
1845 |
First nationally observed uniform election day in US |
1846 |
Benjamin Palmer patents artificial leg |
1852 |
Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy. |
1854 |
Lighthouse built on Alcatraz Island |
1856 |
James Buchanan elected 15th US president |
1861 |
University of Washington founded in Seattle |
1862 |
Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun (Indianapolis) |
1864 |
Confederate assault on Johnsonville, Tennessee |
1864 |
Naval Engagement at Reynoldsburg Island |
1866 |
Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia |
1867 |
90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, for seawall |
1873 |
Dentist John Beers of SF patents gold crown |
1874 |
Samuel J Tilden elected governor of NY |
1875 |
Passenger Steamship "Pacific" collides with sailing vessel "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 die |
1875 |
Tonga adopts constitution |
1875 |
Massachusetts Rifle Association is founded in Boston |
1876 |
John Brahms' 1st Symphony in C premieres |
1879 |
Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus |
1879 |
James Ritty patents first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon |
1884 |
Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for his 1st presidential term. The only American president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms |
1886 |
Edward MacDowell's "Ophelia" premieres |
1889 |
Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball's NL |
1890 |
Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate |
1890 |
Prince of Wales opens first underground station at Stockwell, South London |
1890 |
Alexander Borodin's opera "Prince Igor" premieres in Petersburg |
1893 |
Dr Jamesons Legertje occupies Bulawayo Matabeleland |
1901 |
Clyde Fitch's "Way of the World" premieres in NYC |
1903 |
Panama and Colombia wake up to news that the insurrectionists have declared an independent Republic of Panama |
1904 |
First stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium) |
1905 |
Dock strike against importing grain elevators in Rotterdam |
1908 |
Brooklyn Academy of Music opens in NYC |
1909 |
Opera "Il Segreto di Susanna" is produced (Munich) |
1910 |
Start of South Africa's 1st F-C game in Aust (v S Aust). It rained |
1910 |
Russian Tsar Nicholas II visits German Emperor Wilhelm II at Potsdam; they force tentative agreements on spheres of influence in the Middle East |
1911 |
France & Germany signs treaty about Morocco & Congo |
1914 |
Vogue holds 1st model show ("Fashion Fete", NYC) |
1918 |
Kiel in hands of revolutionary sailors |
1921 |
The Sturmabteilung or SA (the "Brown Shirts") is formally formed by Adolf Hitler |
1921 |
Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo. |
1922 |
Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt |
1924 |
British Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald resigns |
1924 |
California legalizes professional boxing (illegal since 1914) |
1924 |
Nellie Tayloe Ross elected first US female governor (Wyoming) |
1924 |
US President Calvin Coolidge re-elected |
1928 |
Jose Moncada elected president of Nicaragua |
1929 |
John Baldridge' "Berkeley Square" premieres in NYC |
1929 |
Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team begin a 2½ month, 1500-mile dog-sledge journey into the Queen Maud Mountains, the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica |
1931 |
Jean Genet's "Judith" premieres in Paris |
1933 |
Bradman scores 200 NSW v Queensland, 184 mins, 26 fours |
1933 |
Hermann Goering & Georgi Dimitrov duel |
1933 |
Young Park (1) in the Bronx named in honor of James Young |
1934 |
Pitts ends Detroit Lions' shutout streak at 7 games but loses 40-7 |
1939 |
1940 Olympics awarded to Helsinki, Finland |
1939 |
First air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Illinois |
1939 |
US allows "cash & carry" arms sales during WW II |
1940 |
Eggs & cake rationed in Netherlands |
1942 |
13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afrika Korps draws back out Fuka-posing |
1944 |
German troops reconquer Schmidt Hurtgenwald |
1944 |
RAF bombs Dinteloord, 54 killed |
1946 |
"Park Avenue" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 72 performances |
1946 |
UN Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization formed |
1948 |
TS Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature |
1949 |
"One Man's Family" premieres on TV |
1950 |
"Barrier" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 4 performances |
1950 |
"Consul" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 269 performances |
1950 |
Indonesian troops reconquer Ambonese capital Ambon |
1950 |
US troops vacate Pyongyang North Korea |
1951 |
9th Ryder Cup: US wins 9½-2½ at Pinehurst Resort (Pinehurst, North Carolina, US) |
1951 |
NY Giants & NY Yanks score back-to-back TDs on kickoff returns |
1951 |
Vijay Merchant scores 154 v England in his last Test Cricket innings |
1952 |
Earthquake & flood strike Kamshatka-South America |
1952 |
General Dwight Eisenhower (R) elected 34th president of the USA, beating Adlai Stevenson (D) |
1953 |
Eddie Joost succeeds Jimmy Dykes as the manager of Phila A's |
1953 |
New balk rule gives the batter option; of accepting the outcome of the pitch or the balk |
1954 |
"Fanny" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 888 performances |
1954 |
Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City |
1955 |
The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II. |
1956 |
200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Soviet movement in Budapest, Hungary |
1956 |
Israel captures Straits of Tiran & reach Suez Canal Egypt |
1957 |
2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched |
1958 |
Angelo G Roncalli crowned as pope John XXIII |
1958 |
Belgian government of Eyskens resigns |
1958 |
Democrats win US congressional election |
1959 |
Ernie Banks, Cubs shortstop, wins 2nd consecutive NL MVP |
1960 |
"Misfits" premieres, final movie for Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe |
1961 |
Karamanlis becomes premier of Greece |
1962 |
Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament |
1962 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
1963 |
John Lennon utters his infamous "rattle your jewellery" line at a Royal Variety Performance in London |
1965 |
Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah |
1966 |
Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113 |
1968 |
Battles between Jordan army & Al Fatah-arm forces |
1968 |
WRDU (now WPTF) TV chan 28 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1968 |
WTOG TV channel 44 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast |
1968 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill meets British Prime Minister Harold Wilson for talks about the situation in Northern Ireland; Wilson states that there will be no change in the constitutional position of Northern Ireland without the consent of the Northern Ireland population |
1970 |
Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee |
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 |
Bangladesh adopts constitution |
1972 |
Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against Islanders |
1973 |
Thousands commemorate former Greek premier Georgios Papandreou |
1973 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic |
1973 |
M Medoff's "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?" premieres in NYC |
1973 |
New Orleans Saints 1st shutout victory, 13-0 vs Buffalo Bills |
1973 |
The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are solely used by cyclists and roller skaters. |
1975 |
Orioles Jim Palmer wins his 2nd Cy Young Award |
1976 |
1st mass-market free-agent reentry draft, Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi, Gullett, Tenace, Fingers, Baylor, Grich & McCovey, available |
1977 |
UN Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa |
1978 |
Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U |
1978 |
Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) |
1978 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1978 |
3rd annual reentry free-agent draft, Pete Rose, Tommy John, & Darrell Evans, available |
1979 |
500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days) |
1980 |
Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) |
1980 |
Libyan invasion in Chad |
1980 |
Ronald Reagan (R) defeats incumbant US President Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide |
1980 |
Sadaharu Oh, 40, pro baseball's all-time HR run king with 868, retires |
1980 |
Steve Carlton wins 3rd NL Cy Young Awards |
1981 |
Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart" premieres in NYC |
1981 |
Columbia shuttle launch scrubbed with 31 secs remaining |
1981 |
Dr George Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive drugs for Elvis Presley |
1982 |
Ruud Lubbers becomes Dutch premier |
1983 |
Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed |
1983 |
Washington Capitals first NHL overtime victory beating Vancouver 5-4 |
1984 |
Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
1984 |
Nicaragua holds first free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63% |
1987 |
Benito Santiago, Padres catcher, wins NL Rookie of Year |
1987 |
Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel |
1987 |
NBA announces 4 new franchises; Charlotte & Miami for 1988 & Minneapolis & Orlando for 1989 |
1988 |
First NBA game at Charlotte Coliseum - Hornets lose to Cavs, 133-93 |
1989 |
First NBA game at Orlando Arena, Orlando Magic loses to NJ Nets, 111-106 |
1989 |
Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon |
1989 |
Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Dancing Spree, Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm, Steinlen, Sunday Silence |
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 |
"Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" opens at Shubert NYC for 225 perfs |
1990 |
20th NYC Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil in 2:30:45 |
1990 |
21st NYC Marathon won by Douglas Wakiihuri in 2:12:39 |
1990 |
Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mazda Japan 133 Golf Classic |
1990 |
Iraq says it is preparing for a "dangerous war" |
1990 |
US Secretary of State James Baker visits American troops in Saudi Arabia |
1991 |
Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain |
1991 |
Imelda Marcos returns from exile to the Philippines and was arrested the next day for tax fraud and corruption. She was then released on $6,400 bail. |
1992 |
NY Giants announce they will quit WNEW Radio after 32 years for WOR |
1992 |
NY Jets announce they are moving from WABC to WFAN radio |
1993 |
"Timon of Athens" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances |
1993 |
Elton John awarded $518,700 from Sunday Mirror for a false report on his diet |
1993 |
Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
1993 |
Jean Chretien is appointed the Prime Minister of Canada by Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn |
1994 |
Soyuz TM-20 lands in Kazahkstan |
1994 |
United Center in Chicago opens - Bulls beat Charlotte Hornets, 89-83 |
1994 |
San Francisco: First conference that focusses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web. |
1995 |
"Indiscretions" closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 perfs |
1995 |
1st-class Cricket debut of Paul Adams, W Province v N Transvaal |
1995 |
Key Arena opens, Seattle Supersonics beat LA Lakers 103-89 |
2001 |
53rd Emmy Awards: The West Wing, Sex and the City, James Gandolfini & Edie Falco win |
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. |
2004 |
12 French soldiers, 3 UN personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the Côte d'Ivoire civil war. |
2008 |
Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States |
2012 |
Bishop Tawadros appointed as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church |
2012 |
Kimi Raikkonen wins Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2012 |
2012 |
Syrian rebels capture a major oil field in Deir ez-Zor Governorate |
2014 |
Americans vote in mid-term elections which decide whether Democrats or Republicans control the Senate and pave the way for the 2016 White House race |
2014 |
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko orderes army reinforcements to key southern and eastern cities in case of a new rebel offensive in the regions |
2014 |
The body of the last missing victim of Italy's 2012 cruise ship disaster is found on board the wrecked Costa Concordia, which is being dismantled in Genoa |
2014 |
More than 13 years after the original towers were destroyed in the 9/11 attacks, New York's 104-storey World Trade Center re-opens for business in Manhattan |
2015 |
At least 10 killed in Pakistan building collapse |
2015 |
South Sudan plane crash kills 15; baby among 3 survivors |
2015 |
Ancient Greek fort of Acra found in Jerusalem, archaeologists say |
2015 |
France lifts ban on gay men as blood donors |
2015 |
Justin Trudeau sworn in as Canada's Prime Minister |
2016 |
Iowa Police Arrest Suspect in 'Ambush' Killings of 2 Officers |
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