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- 2025-11-04DisasterA UPS Airlines plane crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, killing at least twelve people.
- 2016-11-04GeopoliticsThe Paris Agreement, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, came into effect.
- 2010-11-04DisasterIn 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.
- 2008-11-04GeopoliticsBarack Obama (pictured) became the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
- 1995-11-04ConflictIsraeli 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.
- 1970-11-04DisasterAuthorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child, pseudonymously known as Genie, who had spent nearly her entire life in social isolation.
- 1964-11-04ConflictRuhollah Khomeini was arrested by SAVAK, the Iranian secret police, and exiled to Turkey.
- 1952-11-04GeopoliticsRobert A. Lovett, United States Secretary of Defense, issued a memorandum establishing the National Security Agency, with responsibility for all communications intelligence for the government.
- 1944-11-04ConflictSecond World War: Allied forces completed Operation Pheasant, a major operation to clear German troops from the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands.
- 1938-11-04ConflictThe Hlinka Guard and Slovakian police began the deportation of several thousand Jews from the country.
- 1924-11-04GeneralIn 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 & CultureThe tomb of Tutankhamun (pictured) was discovered by a team led by British Egyptologist Howard Carter.
- 1921-11-04GeneralThe remains of an unknown soldier were buried with an eternal flame at the Altare della Patria in Rome.
- 1912-11-04ConflictThe keel of USS Nevada was laid down, beginning construction on the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought".
- 1890-11-04Science & TechThe 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.
- 1864-11-04ConflictAmerican 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.
- 1780-11-04ConflictTúpac Amaru II led a rebellion of Aymara, Quechua, and mestizo peasants in protest against the Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru.