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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 22, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,730,678,400 seconds 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 ‘trihectaenneagon’ day.
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 86 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 4,336 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 4 Historical Events
- 1576 –Eighty Years’ War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city is nearly destroyed).
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville – Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
- 1921 –Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
- 1944 –World War II: Bitola Liberation Day
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1995 –Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli.
Who were born on November 4?
- 1887 –Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist, philanthropist, scientific research patron (d. 1975)
- 1908 –Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (d. 1997)
- 1933 –C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian politician
- 1940 –Delbert McClinton, American musician
- 1953 –Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian racing driver
- 1958 –Anne Sweeney, American television executive
- 1964 –Kurt Krakowian, American actor
- 1965 –Wayne Static, American musician (Static-X)
- 1975 –Orlando Pace, American football player
- 1978 –Danny Salomon, American actor
Who died on November 4?
- 1658 –Antoine Le Maistre, French Jansenist (b. 1608)
- 1704 –Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654)
- 1924 –Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845)
- 1930 –Buddy Bolden, American musician (b. 1877)
- 1994 –Sam Francis, American painter (b. 1923)
- 1995 –Eddie Egan, American actor and police officer (b. 1930)
- 1995 –Morrie Schwartz, Sociology professor at Brandeis University and an author (b. 1916)
- 1997 –Richard Hooker, American writer (b. 1924)
- 2003 –Ken Gampu, South African actor (b. 1929)
- 2005 –Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet and journalist (b. 1980)
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