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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1852 –Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
- 1861 –The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville – Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
- 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 –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.
- 1944 –World War II: Bitola Liberation Day
- 1952 –The United States government establishes the National Security Agency.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
- 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.
- 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.
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