November 4 in history
Events on November 4
Notable events that happened on November 4 in past years.
- 2025
UPS Airlines Flight 2976, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11F crashes into multiple buildings during takeoff at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky, killing 15 people, including the 3 crew members.
Wikipedia article: UPS Airlines Flight 2976 - 2015
A building collapses in the Pakistani city of Lahore resulting in at least 45 deaths and at least 100 injuries.
Wikipedia article: 2015 Lahore factory disaster - 2008
Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected as President of the United States.
Wikipedia article: Barack Obama - 1980
Ronald Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.
Wikipedia article: Ronald Reagan - 1970
Vietnam War: The United States turns over control of the air base at Bình Thủy in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
Wikipedia article: Vietnam War - 1962
The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Wikipedia article: Operation Fishbowl - 1952
The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
Wikipedia article: Federal government of 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.
Wikipedia article: World War II - 1922
In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
Wikipedia article: Howard Carter - 1890
City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
Wikipedia article: City and South London Railway - 1852
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
Wikipedia article: Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour - 1791
Northwest Indian War: The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
Wikipedia article: Northwest Indian War - 1737
The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples, Italy.
Wikipedia article: Teatro di San Carlo - 1493
Christopher Columbus reaches the Leeward Islands.
- 512
Following Byzantine emperor Anastasius' deposition of Chalcedonian patriarchs and attempts to make Monophysite changes to liturgy, riots break out in Constantinople with a mob trying to proclaim Areobindus as emperor.
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