Wiki143:Selected anniversaries/November 4
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Count Cavour
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The tomb of Tutankhamun
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Menelik II of Ethiopia
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Count Cavour, architect of the Italian Unification
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Yitzhak Rabin
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Jane Goodall
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City & South London Railway locomotive
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Altare della Patria
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| Flag Day in Panama | refimprove sections |
| ; Unity Day in Russia | unreferenced section |
| 1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Italy, currently the oldest active opera house in Europe, was inaugurated. | refimprove |
| 1780 – In the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, Túpac Amaru II led a rebellion of Aymara, Quechua, and mestizo peasants in protest against the Bourbon Reforms. | Page numbers needed |
| 1791 – Northwest Indian War: In the most severe defeat ever suffered by U.S. forces at the hands of Native Americans, the Western Confederacy won a major victory at the Battle of the Wabash near present-day Fort Recovery in Ohio. | Too much uncited |
| 1847 – Scottish physician James Young Simpson discovered the anaesthetic qualities of chloroform on humans. | Too much uncited |
| 1852 – Count Cavour became Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expanded to become the Kingdom of Italy. | refimprove section |
| 1869 – Nature, one of the oldest and most reputable general-purpose scientific journals, was first published. | refimprove section |
| 1889 – Menelik II, who would later introduce several technological and administrative advances under his reign, was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia. | neutrality issues |
| 1921 – After a speech by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, members of the Sturmabteilung, known as "brownshirts", physically assaulted his opposition, an event which assumed legendary proportions over time. | unreferenced section |
| 1960 – At the Kasakela chimpanzee community in Tanzania, Jane Goodall observed a chimpanzee using a grass stalk to extract termites from a termite hill, the first recorded case of tool creation by non-human animals. | unreferenced section |
| 1966 – The Arno River flooded Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of Template:Convert, leaving thousands homeless and damaging or destroying millions of books and paintings. | refimprove section |
| 1970 – Salvador Allende took office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections. | unreferenced section |
| 1979 – Hundreds of Iranian students supporting the Iranian Revolution seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, beginning a 444-day hostage crisis. | refimprove section |
| 1991 – Former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos was granted a presidential pardon by Corazon Aquino and allowed to return from exile. | missing page numbers |
| Kathy Griffin |b|1960 | unreferenced filmography, awards sections |
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- 1864 – 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.
- 1921 – The remains of an unknown soldier were buried with an eternal flame at the Altare della Patria in Rome.
- 1922 – The tomb of Tutankhamun (pictured) was discovered by a team led by British Egyptologist Howard Carter.
- 1952 – 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 – Second World War: Allied forces completed Operation Pheasant, a major operation to clear German troops from the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands.
- 1970 – Authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child, pseudonymously known as Genie, who had spent nearly her entire life in social isolation.
- 1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing extremist, at a peace rally at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.
- 2008 – Barack Obama (pictured) became the first African American to be elected President of the United States.
- 2010 – 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.
- Born/died: | Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange |b|1631| Antoine Le Maistre |d|1658| Felix Mendelssohn |d|1847| Dolly Stark |b|1897| Joseph Rotblat |b|1908 Shakuntala Devi |b|1929| Shoghi Effendi |d|1957| Matthew McConaughey |b|1969| Elsie MacGill |d|1980
Notes
- The Unknown Warrior appears on November 11 so Altare della Patria should not appear in the same year.
November 4: Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic (2024); Election Day in the United States (2025); National Unity and Armed Forces Day in Italy Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1890 – 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.
- 1912 – The keel of USS Nevada was laid down, beginning construction on the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought".
- 1938 – The Hlinka Guard and Slovakian police began the deportation of several thousand Jews from the country.
- 1964 – Ruhollah Khomeini was arrested by SAVAK, the Iranian secret police, and exiled to Turkey.
- 2016 – The Paris Agreement, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, came into effect.
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