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.
- 1501 –Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII’s first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII’s older brother – they would later marry.
- 1677 –The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later jointly reign as William and Mary.
- 1791 –The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
- 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.
- 1890 –City & South London Railway: London’s first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
- 1921 –Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
- 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.
- 1966 –The Arno River flooded Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m, 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.
- 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.
- 1994 –San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
- 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.
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