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.
- 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.
- 1847 –Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
- 1861 –The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University.
- 1918 –World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
- 1921 –The Sturmabteilung or SA, whose members were known as “brownshirts”, physically assault Adolf Hitler’s opposition after his speech in Munich.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1979 –Iran hostage crisis begins: a group of Iranians, mostly students, invades the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
- 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.
- 2008 –Proposition 8 passes in California, revoking state recognition of LGBT marriages.
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