About November 4
November 4, 2024 is the 309th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 57 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 86 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 4
- 1429 –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.
- 1737 –The Teatro di San Carlo is inaugurated.
- 1783 –W.A. 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.
- 1847 –Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
- 1918 –World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
- 1921 –The Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome.
- 1921 –The Sturmabteilung or SA, whose members were known as “brownshirts”, physically assault Adolf Hitler’s opposition after his speech in Munich.
- 1924 –Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.
- 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
- 1956 –Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution against the Soviet Union, that started on October 23. 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 Island. It would also be the last atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States.
- 1993 –A China Airlines Boeing 747 overruns Runway 13 at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.
- 1994 –San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
- 1995 –Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli.
- 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 African-American to be elected President of the United States.
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