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 308^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 57 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 22, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,370,240 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.

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 105 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 4,701 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 4 Historical Events

• 1429 –
  Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
• 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.
• 1918 –
  World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
• 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.
• 1952 –
  The United States government establishes the National Security Agency.
• 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.
• 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.

Who were born on November 4?

• 1836 –
  Henry J. Lutcher, American businessman (d. 1912)
• 1909 –
  Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (d. 1974)
• 1913 –
  Gig Young, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1931 –
  Bernard Cardinal Law, Archbishop Emeritus of Boston,
• 1951 –
  Traian Băsescu, President of Romania
• 1961 –
  Daron Hagen, American composer
• 1961 –
  Edward Knight, American composer
• 1979 –
  Jesse Camp, American VJ
• 1980 –
  Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby union footballer
• 1986 –
  Adrian Zaugg, South African racing driver

Who died on November 4?

• 1652 –
  Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)
• 1918 –
  Wilfred Owen, English poet (b. 1893)
• 1924 –
  Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845)
• 1930 –
  Buddy Bolden, American musician (b. 1877)
• 1980 –
  Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1905)
• 1995 –
  Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1922)
• 1997 –
  Richard Hooker, American writer (b. 1924)
• 2002 –
  Nakis Avgerinos, Greek politician (b. 1911)
• 2005 –
  Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet and journalist (b. 1980)
• 2006 –
  Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician and Nisga'a statesman (b. 1915)