What are the important events that happened on November 4? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 4: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 4 is the 308th day of the year 2017 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 57 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 22, 2017 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 25,162,560 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectaoctagon’ day.
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Scorpio is the zodiac 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 107 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 1,779 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 4 Historical Events
- 1783 –W.A. Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1952 –The United States government establishes the National Security Agency.
- 1960 –At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
- 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.
- 1995 –Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli.
- 2008 –Proposition 8 passes in California, revoking state recognition of LGBT marriages.
Who were born on November 4?
- 1909 –Evelyn Johnson, American aviator
- 1918 –Cameron Mitchell, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1923 –Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
- 1928 –Larry Bunker, American jazz drummer, vibraphonist, and percussionist (d. 2005)
- 1932 –Thomas Klestil, former President of Austria (d. 2004)
- 1951 –Traian Băsescu, President of Romania
- 1968 –Carlos Baerga, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1977 –Larry Bigbie, American baseball player
- 1980 –Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby union footballer
- 1981 –Guy Martin, English motorcycle racer
Who died on November 4?
- 1847 –Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
- 1906 –John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832)
- 1930 –Buddy Bolden, American musician (b. 1877)
- 1982 –Dominique Dunne, American actress (b. 1959)
- 1995 –Morrie Schwartz, Sociology professor at Brandeis University and an author (b. 1916)
- 2002 –Nakis Avgerinos, Greek politician (b. 1911)
- 2003 –Ken Gampu, South African actor (b. 1929)
- 2006 –Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American memoirist (b. 1908)
- 2008 –Michael Crichton, American author (b. 1942)
- 2010 –Eugénie Blanchard, French supercentenarian (b. 1896)
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