About November 4

November 4, 2025 is the 308th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 57 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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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 105 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On November 4

  • 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.
  • 1783 –
    W.A. Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
  • 1839 –
    The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
  • 1852 –
    Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
  • 1890 –
    City & 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 1952 –
    The United States government establishes the National Security Agency.
  • 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.
  • 1966 –
    The Arno River flooded Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m, leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books.
  • 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.
  • 1994 –
    San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
  • 2002 –
    Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
  • 2008 –
    Proposition 8 passes in California, revoking state recognition of LGBT marriages.

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