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11-03-2012, 11:11 PM
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This Date in History - November 4th
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1429 Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moϋtier.
1501 Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother they would later marry.
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.
1791 The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
1798 Beginning of the Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu.
1839 The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
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.
1912 USS Nevada (BB-36) is laid down.
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.
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.
1922 In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.
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.
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.
1955 After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
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.
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 (22 ft), 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.
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.
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.
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.
2011 The Hellenic Parliament rejects a no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou following a failed attempt to hold a referendum on a Eurozone bailout.
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This Date in History - November 4th
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1429 Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moϋtier.
1501 Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother they would later marry.
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.
1791 The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
1798 Beginning of the Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu.
1839 The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
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.
1912 USS Nevada (BB-36) is laid down.
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.
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.
1922 In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.
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.
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.
1955 After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
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.
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 (22 ft), 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.
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.
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.
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.
2011 The Hellenic Parliament rejects a no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou following a failed attempt to hold a referendum on a Eurozone bailout.
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