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04 November, 2004

12 French soldiers, 3 UN personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the Côte dIvoire civil war.

04 November, 2003

The most powerful solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.

04 November, 2003

Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy becomes the first person indicted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He was eventually acquitted.

04 November, 2002

Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress

04 November, 2001

Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba, destroying crops and thousands of homes.

04 November, 2001

The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established.

04 November, 1995

Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extreme right-wing Israeli.

04 November, 1994

San Francisco: First conference that focusses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.

04 November, 1993

Jean Chrétien takes office as Prime Minister of Canada.

04 November, 1993

Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

04 November, 1993

A series of fires destroy 1000 homes in southern California, causing between 500 million and 1 billion USD of damage. Half of the fires turn out to be arson.

04 November, 1993

A China Airlines Boeing 747 overran Runway 13 at Hong Kongs Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.

04 November, 1989

The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.

04 November, 1986

Chief Justice Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by the electorate from the Supreme Court of California for their opposition to capital punishment.

04 November, 1984

Dell is founded.

04 November, 1984

Sandinista Front wins the elections in Nicaragua.

04 November, 1980

Ronald Wilson Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States of America.

04 November, 1979

Iran hostage crisis begins: Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).

04 November, 1970

Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.

04 November, 1970

Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.

04 November, 1966

Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the Arno rivers flood; considering also the contemporary flood of Po River in northern Italy, 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and numerous Renaissance artworks and books are destroyed.

04 November, 1960

Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable -- the last film for both.

04 November, 1956

Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.

04 November, 1955

The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethovens Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II.

04 November, 1952

Dwight David Eisenhower is elected the thirty-fourth President of the United States of America.

04 November, 1952

The United States government establishes the National Security Agency.

04 November, 1948

T. S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.

04 November, 1945

UNESCO is founded.

04 November, 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.

04 November, 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.

04 November, 1928

Arnold Rothstein, New York Citys most notorious gambler, is shot dead over a poker game.

04 November, 1927

Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen return to Washington, D.C., having completed a two-year journey of 11,356 miles to all 48 states.

04 November, 1924

Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first female governor in the United States.

04 November, 1924

Calvin Coolidge is elected the twenty-ninth President of the United States of America.

04 November, 1922

In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamuns tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

04 November, 1921

Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria ( Fatherland Altar ) in Rome.

04 November, 1921

The Sturmabteilung or SA is formally formed by Adolf Hitler

04 November, 1921

Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.

04 November, 1918

World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.

04 November, 1918

The German Revolution begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.

04 November, 1899

Sigmund Freuds The Interpretation of Dreams is published.

04 November, 1890

City & South London Railway: Londons first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.

04 November, 1889

Menelek of Shoa obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the Ethiopian nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned emperor.

04 November, 1869

The first issue of the scientific journal Nature is published.

04 November, 1864

American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville - Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.

04 November, 1861

The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University

04 November, 1852

Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.

04 November, 1839

The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.

04 November, 1825

The Erie Canal is completed with Governor DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony in New York Harbour.

04 November, 1737

The Teatro di San Carlo is inaugurated.

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