WillDekkard
11-04-2010, 04:39 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - November 4th
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* 1333 The River Arno flooding causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.
* 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.
* 1825 The Erie Canal is completed with Governor DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony in New York Harbour.
* 1839 The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
* 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.
* 1889 Menelek of Shoa obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the Ethiopian nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned emperor.
* 1890 City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
* 1903 Panama adopts its flag one day after it separated from Colombia
* 1918 World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
* 1918 The German Revolution begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
* 1921 The Sturmabteilung or SA is formed by Adolf Hitler
* 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 totally 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.
* 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 Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the River Arno floods; together with the contemporaneous flood of the Po River in northern Italy, this leads to 113 deaths, 30,000 made homeless, and the destruction of numerous Renaissance artworks and 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, representing the first ever elimination of an existing right to marry for LGBT couples.
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This Date in History - November 4th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1333 The River Arno flooding causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.
* 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.
* 1825 The Erie Canal is completed with Governor DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony in New York Harbour.
* 1839 The Newport Rising: the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
* 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.
* 1889 Menelek of Shoa obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the Ethiopian nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned emperor.
* 1890 City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
* 1903 Panama adopts its flag one day after it separated from Colombia
* 1918 World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
* 1918 The German Revolution begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
* 1921 The Sturmabteilung or SA is formed by Adolf Hitler
* 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 totally 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.
* 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 Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the River Arno floods; together with the contemporaneous flood of the Po River in northern Italy, this leads to 113 deaths, 30,000 made homeless, and the destruction of numerous Renaissance artworks and 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, representing the first ever elimination of an existing right to marry for LGBT couples.
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