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1429 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother – they would later marry.
1576 – Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city is nearly destroyed).
1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later jointly reign as William and Mary.
1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo is inaugurated.
1780 – Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui aka Tupac Amaru starts his Rebellion on Peru against Spain.
1783 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
1791 – The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
1798 – Beginning of the Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu.
1801 – Patriot William Shippen, of the powerful Shippen family of Philadelphia dies at the age of 89 at his home in Germantown, Pennsylvania. He was a descendant of the well-known Edward Shippen, colonial Philadelphia’s mayor and Pennsylvania’s chief justice.
(Cousin Sam is distantly related to the Shippen family.)
1839 – Newport Rising: The last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
1842 – Struggling lawyer Abraham Lincoln married Mary Anne Todd, a Kentucky native, at her sister's home in Springfield, Illinois.
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
1852 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
1861 – The University of Washington opens in Seattle as the Territorial University.
1862 – Inventor Richard J. Gatling received a U.S. patent for his rapid-fire Gatling gun.
1864 – American Civil War: At the Battle of Johnsonville, Tennessee, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest subjected a Union supply base to a devastating artillery barrage that destroyed millions of dollars in materiel.
1868 – Camagüey, Cuba revolts against Spain during the Ten Years' War.
1890 – City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
1918 – World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
1918 – Just one week before the armistice was declared, ending World War I, the British poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action during a British assault on the German-held Sambre Canal on the Western Front. See whatwasthere.com
1921 – The Sturmabteilung or SA, whose members were known as "brownshirts", physically assault Adolf Hitler's opposition after his speech in Munich.
1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
1921 – The Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome.
1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men unearthed the entrance to the lost tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 – President Calvin Coolidge, who’d succeeded the late President Warren G. Harding, was elected to a full term of office.
1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.
1924 – Heavy flooding broke out all through New England after ten days of storms and rain.
1939 – World War II: U.S. 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 Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
1944 – World War II: Bitola Liberation Day: The 7th Macedonian Liberation Brigade entered Bitola.
1944 – British Gen. John Dill died in Washington, D.C. He is buried in Arlington Cemetery, the only foreigner to be so honored.
1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
1952 – The United States government establishes the highly secretive National Security Agency, or NSA.
1956 – Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution against the Soviet Union that started on October 23. A spontaneous national uprising that began 12 days before in Hungary is viciously crushed by Soviet tanks and troops. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
1962 – In a test of the Nike Hercules air defense missile, Shot Dominic-Tightrope is successfully detonated 69,000 feet above Johnston Atoll. It would also be the last atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States.
1966 – The Arno River floods Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. Also Venice was submerged on the same day at its record all-time acqua alta of 194 cm.
1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
1970 – Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
1970 – Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first Car-Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Hundreds of Iranians, mostly students, overrun the US embassy in Tehran, taking 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
1993 – The China Airlines Flight 605, a Boeing 747, overruns Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.
1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is fatally shot by an extremist Israeli after attending a peace rally in Tel Aviv's Kings Square in Israel. Rabin later died in surgery at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first person of African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
2010 – Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes into Guasimal, Sancti Spíritus. All 68 passengers and crew were killed.
2010 – Qantas Flight 32, an Airbus A380, suffers an uncontained engine failure over Indonesia shortly after taking off from Singapore, crippling the jet. The crew manage to safely return to Singapore, saving all 469 passengers and crew.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Charles, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, Confessor.
Commemoration of the Octave of All Saints.
Commemoration of Saints Vitalis and Agricola, Martyrs.
Contemporary Western
Blessed Teresa Manganiello
Charles Borromeo
Emeric of Hungary
Our Lady of Kazan
Vitalis and Agricola
Charles Borromeo
Emeric of Hungary
Our Lady of Kazan
Vitalis and Agricola
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
November 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Hierymartyr Nicander, bishop of Myra, and Hermas, presbyter,
both disciples of Titus (1st century)
Joannicius the Great of Bithynia (846)
John Vatatzes the Merciful (John III Doukas Vatatzes, Emperor of Nicaea) (1254)
Saint Silvia
Hierymartyr Nicander, bishop of Myra, and Hermas, presbyter,
both disciples of Titus (1st century)
Joannicius the Great of Bithynia (846)
John Vatatzes the Merciful (John III Doukas Vatatzes, Emperor of Nicaea) (1254)
Saint Silvia
Coptic Orthodox
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