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
- 1429 –Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1922 –In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: Bitola Liberation Day
- 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.
- 1970 –Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
- 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.
- 2008 –Proposition 8 passes in California, revoking state recognition of LGBT marriages.
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