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On November 4

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Historic events

  • 2025-11-04Disaster
    A UPS Airlines plane crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, killing at least twelve people.
  • 2016-11-04Geopolitics
    The Paris Agreement, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, came into effect.
  • 2010-11-04Disaster
    In the first aviation incident involving an Airbus A380, Qantas Flight 32 suffered an uncontained engine failure and made an emergency landing at Changi Airport in Singapore with no casualties.
  • 2008-11-04Geopolitics
    Barack Obama (pictured) became the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
  • 1995-11-04Conflict
    Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (pictured) was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing extremist, at a peace rally at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.
  • 1970-11-04Disaster
    Authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child, pseudonymously known as Genie, who had spent nearly her entire life in social isolation.
  • 1964-11-04Conflict
    Ruhollah Khomeini was arrested by SAVAK, the Iranian secret police, and exiled to Turkey.
  • 1952-11-04Geopolitics
    Robert A. Lovett, United States Secretary of Defense, issued a memorandum establishing the National Security Agency, with responsibility for all communications intelligence for the government.
  • 1944-11-04Conflict
    Second World War: Allied forces completed Operation Pheasant, a major operation to clear German troops from the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands.
  • 1938-11-04Conflict
    The Hlinka Guard and Slovakian police began the deportation of several thousand Jews from the country.
  • 1924-11-04General
    In a special election in Wyoming, Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman to be elected as a governor in the United States.
  • 1922-11-04Arts & Culture
    The tomb of Tutankhamun (pictured) was discovered by a team led by British Egyptologist Howard Carter.
  • 1921-11-04General
    The remains of an unknown soldier were buried with an eternal flame at the Altare della Patria in Rome.
  • 1912-11-04Conflict
    The keel of USS Nevada was laid down, beginning construction on the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought".
  • 1890-11-04Science & Tech
    The City and South London Railway (carriage pictured), the first deep-level underground railway in the world, officially opened, running 3.2 mi (5.1 km) between the City of London and Stockwell.
  • 1864-11-04Conflict
    American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest led a cavalry division in an attack on a Union Army supply base at Johnsonville, Tennessee, resulting in the capture of 150 prisoners.
  • 1780-11-04Conflict
    Túpac Amaru II led a rebellion of Aymara, Quechua, and mestizo peasants in protest against the Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru.
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